Employment History
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Associate Professor, 2006—present
Assistant Professor, 2000—2006Emory University
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1999—2000
Education
Harvard University, Ph.D. in Classical Philology, November 1999
Dissertation
Pastoral Voices: Speech and Writing from Theocritus to Virgil
(pp. vi + 320, Richard Thomas, adviser)
Summary in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000) 516–17
Emory University, B.A. in Classics with highest honors, May 1994
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer Session 1993
Research and Publications
Books With Cynthia Damon and Andreola Rossi (eds.), Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars (Oxford 2010). Pastoral Inscriptions: Reading and Writing Virgil's Eclogues (London 2006).
With B. Arnold, A. Aronson, J. Higgins, G. Lawall, H. Lerner, and S. Murphy, Carpe Diem: A Horace Reader. 2 vols. (Prentice Hall 2006). Articles and Chapters in Books
"Propertius on not Writing about Civil Wars," in Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars, ed. B. Breed, C. Damon, and A. Rossi (Oxford 2010) 233–48.
"Perugia and the Plots of the Monobiblos," Cambridge Classical Journal 55 (2009) 24–48.
"Time and Textuality in the Book of the Eclogues," in Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral, ed. M. Fantuzzi and T. Papanghelis (Leiden 2006) 333–67.
"Inscribing Dialogue in Pastoral Poetics and Criticism," in Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-Inscribed, ed. M. Skoie and S. Velázquez (Exeter 2006) 89–100.
"Portrait of a Lady: Propertius 1.3 and Ecphrasis," Classical Journal 99 (2003) 35–56.
"Imitations of Originality: Theocritus and Lucretius at the Start of the Eclogues," Vergilius 46 (2000) 3–20.
"Odysseus Back Home and Back from the Dead," in Nine Essays on Homer, ed. M. Carlisle and O. Levaniouk (Lanham, MD 1999) 137–61.
Book Introductions
With Cynthia Damon and Andreola Rossi, "Introduction" for Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars (Oxford 2010) 3–22.
"Introduction to the Eclogues," in Conington’s Virgil: Eclogues (Exeter 2007) XVII–XXXIX.
With Andreola Rossi, "Introduction: Ennius and the Traditions of Epic," for Ennius and the Invention of Roman Epic, Arethusa 39 (2006) 397-425.
Reviews
Review of T. Saunders, Bucolic Ecology: Virgil's Eclogues and the Environmental Literary Tradition (London 2008) for Hermathena (forthcoming).
Review of K. Volk, ed. Vergil's Eclogues. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies (Oxford 2008) for Mnemosyne (forthcoming).
Review of D.O. Ross, Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide (Malden, Mass. 2007), New England Classical Journal 39 (2009) 61–3.
Review of M. Payne, Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction (Cambridge 2007), Journal of Hellenic Studies 128 (2008) 198–9.
Review of S.J. Harrison, Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (Oxford 2007), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.03.32.
Review of J. Reed, Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid (Princeton 2007), New England Classical Journal 34 (2007) 265–7.
Review of J. Walker, Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity (Oxford 2000), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.03.16.
Review of Harder, Regtuit, and Wakker, eds., Theocritus: Hellenistica Groningana 2, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 628-33.