Areas of Expertise
- Latin literature of the late republic and early empire
- Roman cultural history, especially gender studies and intellectual history
- Ancient philosophy: Plato, Hellenistic ethics, Stoicism
- Greek literature
Education
B.A. Reed College (1996)
M.A. University of Pennsylvania, Classics (1999)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Classics (2002)
Courses
- CLAS 102/COMP 108 SEM Roman Literature: Gender, Virtue, Empire (not offered 2026/27)
- CLGR 201 (F) SEM Intermediate Greek
- CLLA 201 (F) SEM Intermediate Latin: The Late Republic
- CLAS 227/COMP 277 (F) SEM The Examined Life: Ancient Ethical Literature at Rome
- CLAS 241/COMP 241/WGSS 241 (S) TUT Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome
- CLGR 406 SEM Aristophanes and Plato (not offered 2026/27)
- CLLA 407 LEC Caesar and Cicero (not offered 2026/27)
- CLGR 409 SEM Plato (not offered 2026/27)
- CLLA 409 SEM Seneca and the Self (not offered 2026/27)
- CLLA 415 SEM Ovid’s Metamorphoses (not offered 2026/27)
- CLLA 422 SEM Crete in the Ancient Roman Imagination (not offered 2026/27)
- CLLA 424 (S) SEM Tacitus: Annales
Publications
Selected publications
- “Measurement, Memory, and Moral Progress in Seneca’s De Brevitate Vitae” in Seneca and Stoic Apatheia: Ethics, Physics, and the History of Emotions. Myrto Garani and Fabio Tutrone, eds. De Gruyter Forthcoming 2026.
- “Ut amare discas: Anticipating Friendship in Epistulae Morales 35.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca 2 (2022), 45-80.
- “Cicero the Satirist? Scurrilous Poses in the Letters,” in Hermathena: The Epistolary Cicero: Further Readings in the Letters. Roy Gibson and Ruth Morello, eds. (2022), 225-263.
- “Seneca on Augustus and Roman Fatherhood,” in Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writing. Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Michalopoulos, and Myrto Garani, eds. Routledge (2020) 23-49.
- The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles. University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
- “Sympathetic Rivals: Consolation in Cicero’s Letters.” American Journal of Philology 26.2 (2005), 237 – 255.
Committees
- Campus Environmental Advisory Committee