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Navigation: Research Interests, Employment, Education, Publications, Manuscripts in Progress, Presentations, Invited Talks, Teaching Experience, Awards, Fellowships, Institutes, and Memberships, Service, Physical Address, References

Research Interests

narratology; Ovid and Augustan poetry; ancient gender politics and sexuality; Digital Humanities (Natural Language Processing, machine learning, text encoding); queer theory; performance and reception; Sophocles and Greek tragedy; metrics.

Employment

(2022 to present) Fairfield University.

(2022 to present) Vincent J. Rosivach Professor of Classical Studies.

(2018-2022) College of the Holy Cross.

(2019-2022) Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics
(2018-2019) Visiting Lecturer, Classics

Education

(2018) Ph.D., Classical Studies.

Boston University, Boston, MA
Dissertation: Tereus, Procne, and Philomela: Speech, Silence, and the Voice of Gender (Directed by Patricia Johnson)

(2015) M.A., Classical Studies.

Boston University, Boston, MA

New York University, New York, NY
Thesis: Tecmessa, Teucer, and the Subversion of Gender Roles in Sophocles’ Ajax (Advised by Amber Musser)

(2010) B.A., magna cum laude, Classics and Theatre.

College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Capstone: Sophocles’ Ajax: Translation, Design, and Production

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

(2022, forthcoming) “‘Let Loose the Melodies of Holy Hymns’: Voice, Agency, and Gender in Aristophanes’ Birds.” In The Spirit of Aristophanes (Festschrift in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
(2021) “Ovid in the #MeToo Era,” Helios 48.1: 57-75.
(2021) with Dominic Machado. “Lector Intende, Laetaberis: A Research-Based Approach to Introductory Latin.” New England Classical Journal 48.1: 36-53.
(2020) with Dominic Machado and D. Neel Smith. “Caveat Magister: A Computational Approach to Designing a Latin Curriculum.” DH2020.
(2020) “Verbal Agency in the Speech of Cremutius Cordus (Tacitus Annals 4.34-35),” New England Classical Journal 47.1: 1-16.
(2018) “The speaker and addressee of Sophocles’ Tereus fr. 588 Radt and the context of fr. 583,” Classical Quarterly 68.2: 707-712.
(2015) “A Narratological Investigation of Ovid’s Medea: Met. 7.1-424,” Classical World 109.1: 69-89.

Pedagogy

(2022) Intro Greek (an introductory Greek textbook)
(2020) with Dominic Machado and Neel Smith, Lingua Latina Legenda (an introductory Latin textbook)

Reviews

(2021) Review, Kris Masters, LGBT Meets SPQR. Society for Classical Studies Blog.
(2021) Review, Alison Sharrock, Daniel Möller, and Mats Malm, eds., Metamorphic Readings: Transformation, Language, and Gender in the Interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
(2019) Review, Rolfe Humphries, tr., and Joseph D. Reed, annotator, Ovid: Metamorphoses. Classical Journal.
(2018) Review, W.M. Barton, The Pervigilium Veneris: A New Critical Text, Translation, and Commentary. Classical Review 69.1.

Public Outreach:

(2021) Consultant and contributor, Homer Bound podcast.
(2021) “BIPOC Features: Daniel Libatique.” Notes from the Apotheke.
(2021) “Contingent Faculty Series: A Conversation with Daniel Libatique.” Society for Classical Studies Blog.
(2020) “Object-ifying Language.” Eidolon.

Manuscripts in Progress

Edited volume, co-editor with Fiona McHardy, Diversity and the Study of Antiquity in Higher Education, Routledge.
Monograph, *Philomela’s Tongue: Speech, Silence, and the Voice of Gender.”
Article, “Atomic Intertext: Lucretius DRN 2.500-507 and Ovid Met. 6.576-586.”
Article, “The Meter of the Pervigilium Veneris.”
Article, “Pietas as Scelus in the Philomela Myth of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (6.424-674).”
Article, “Speech, Silence, and Gender in the Hermaphroditus Myth of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (4.274-388).”

Presentations

(2021) “The Commonplace Book: Student-Centered Explorations of Ancient-Modern Connections,” Res Difficiles 2.0: A Digital Conference on Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity in Classics, Virtual (due to COVID-19)
(2020) with Dominic Machado and D. Neel Smith, “Caveat magister: a computational approach to designing a Latin curriculum,” DH2020, Ottawa, Canada. (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
(2020) “Reading Violent Narratives in the Classroom, or Why We Need Feminism,” in the workshop “Feminism is for Every Body: Meeting Resistance to Feminist Pedagogy in the Classroom,” Feminism and Classics 2020: body/language, Winston-Salem, NC. (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
(2020) with Dominic Machado, “Lector intende, laetaberis: A Research-based Approach to Introductory Latin,” CANE Annual Meeting, Virtual (due to COVID-19).
(2020) Presenter, “Beyond Reception: Addressing Issues of Social Justice in the Classroom with Modern Comparisons,” Classics and Social Justice workshop, SCS Annual meeting, Washington, DC.
(2019) “Visualizing Speech and Speaking about Vision: Focalization in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1 and 6,” on the International Ovidian Society panel Ovid: a nostris temporibus ad futurum, CAMWS Annual Meeting, Lincoln, NE.
(2019) “adnue conanti per laudes ire tuorum: The Politics of Assent in Ovid’s Fasti,” on the International Ovidian Society panel at the CANE Annual Meeting, Worcester, MA.
(2019) “Ovid in the #MeToo Era,” on the International Ovidian Society panel Ovid Studies: the Next Millennium, SCS/AIA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
(2018) “Speech, Silence, and Gender in the Hermaphroditus Myth of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (4.274-388),” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
(2018) “The Metrical Form of the Pervigilium Veneris,” CANE Annual Meeting, Kingston, RI.
(2017) “Communication as Power: The Correction of Sophocles’ Tereus in Aristophanes’ Birds,” CAAS Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
(2017) “Speech, Silence, and Artistic Expression in the Pervigilium Veneris,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
(2017) “Pietas as Scelus in the Philomela Myth of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (6.424-674),” OSU Graduate Student Conference, What Does Evil Look Like? Horror, Macabre, and Ideological Control throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World, Columbus, OH.
(2017) “Facundum faciebat amor: The Absence of Tereus’ Direct Speech in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 6,” CANE Annual Meeting, Exeter, NH.
(2016) “Borrowings and Code-Switches in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, VA.
(2015) “Tragic Epistolography and the Molding of Myth in Ovid’s Tristia 4.4,” CAAS Annual Meeting, Wilmington, DE.
(2015) “Cremutius Cordus and the Loss of Agency: Tacitus’ Annals 4.34-35,” CANE Annual Meeting, Dedham, MA.
(2014) “The Königsrede as Temporal Microcosm: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos 216-275,” CAMWS Southern Section Meeting, Fredericksburg, VA.
(2013) “From Lead Role to Stage Body: The Disappearance of Tecmessa in Sophocles’ Ajax,” Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, DISAPPEARANCE: Spatial and Temporal Horizons, City University of New York.
(2013) “Rumor, Speech, and the Fall of a Homeric Age in Sophocles’ Ajax,” Graduate Conference at the University of Florida, Ut Fama Est: Rumor and Reputation in Antiquity, University of Florida.
(2013) “A Narratological Investigation of Ovid’s Medea: Met. 7.1-424,” Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar, The Journey in Roman Literature, Columbia University.

Invited Talks

(2021) “Philomela’s Tongue: Speech, Silence, and the Voice of Gender”, UMass Amherst.
(2020) “Ovid in the #MeToo Era”, University of Minnesota.
(2019) “The Weaponization of Ancient Sexuality in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus,” Brandeis University.
(2019) “The Weaponization of Ancient Sexuality in Aeschines’ Against Timarchus,” Boston University.
(2019) “Ovid in the #MeToo Era,” College of the Holy Cross.
(2019) “Ovid in the #MeToo Era,” Wellesley College.
(2019) “Ovid in the #MeToo Era: Classics in the 21st Century,” Boston University.

Teaching Experience

Fairfield University

Basic Latin (Fall 2022)
Masterpieces of Roman Literature in English Translation (Fall 2022)

College of the Holy Cross

Introduction to Latin 1 (Fall 2018, Fall 2019 x2 sections)
Introduction to Latin 2 (Spring 2019, Spring 2020 x2 sections)
Introduction to Greek 1 (Fall 2021)
Introduction to Greek 2 (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
Intermediate Latin 1 (Fall 2020, Fall 2021)
Intermediate Greek 2 (Spring 2021)
Advanced Latin Seminar: Roman Constructions of Gender and Sexuality (Fall 2020)
Advanced Latin Seminar: Cicero’s Speeches (Spring 2021)
Advanced Greek Seminar: The Greek Novel (Fall 2021)
Women and Men in Roman Literature and Society (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
Women and Men in Greek Literature and Society (Spring 2022)
Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (Spring 2019)
Introduction to Greco-Roman Gender and Sexuality (Spring 2020, Fall 2020)
Greek and Roman Epic (Spring 2022)

Boston University

Instructor of Record:
- Homeric Epic (Spring 2018)
- Beginning Latin I (Fall 2015)
Teaching Fellow:
- The World of Rome (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2016)
- Warfare in Antiquity (Spring 2015)
- Greek History (Fall 2013)

Awards, Fellowships, Institutes, and Memberships

(2018) Participant, “Digital Editions, Digital Corpora and New Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond,” NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
(2017-2018) Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Classical Studies, Boston University.
(2017) BU Center for the Humanities Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Boston University.
(2016-2017) Researcher in Residence, New York Public Library.
(2016-2017) Graduate Fellowship, Boston University.
(2016) GRS Dissertation Fellowship Award, Boston University.
(2013-2016) Teacher’s Fellowship, Boston University.
(2012-2013) Dean’s Fellowship, Boston University.
(2010 on) Alpha Sigma Nu, member.
(2010 on) Phi Beta Kappa, member.
(2006-2010) Rev. Henry Bean, S.J., Scholarship, College of the Holy Cross.

Service

(2021-2022) Honors Thesis Reader, Augusta Holyfield.
(2021-2022) Honors Thesis Reader, Kendall Swanson.
(2021-present) Article referee for Classical Quarterly.
(2020-present) Article referee for Classical Receptions Journal.
(2020-present) Advisory Board member, The Bridge
(2019) Co-organizer, MACTe Fall Meeting, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
(2019) Panel Organizer, International Ovidian Society, CAMWS, Lincoln, NE.
(2017-2018) Volunteer Coordinator, Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting (Boston).
(2017, 2016, 2013) Session leader at Massachusetts Junior Classical League Classics Day.
(2015) Co-organizer, “Love and Friendship in Greek and Roman Antiquity,” Graduate Student Conference, Boston University.

Physical Address

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