Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Classics
Professional Education
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Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Classics (2018)
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M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, Classics (2011)
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B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, English Literature (2009)
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B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Classics (2009)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
My research concerns how Latin and Greek speakers express personal identity, especially social class, ethnicity, and cultural affiliation, through individual idiom. The culture we reconstruct in Classics is founded on an aggregate of individuals speaking loudly or quietly or not at all, depending on circumstance, but language in use always flickers between personal impulse and societal demand—a negotiation that fascinates me, as it is universal, but never has the same result.
2023-24 Courses
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Independent Studies (4)
- Directed Reading in Classics (Graduate Students)
CLASSICS 298 (Aut, Win) - Directed Readings (Undergraduate)
CLASSICS 198 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Dissertation Proposal Preparation
CLASSICS 297 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Thesis: Senior Research
CLASSICS 199 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Directed Reading in Classics (Graduate Students)
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Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Late Latin
CLASSICS 103L (Spr) - Latin (and Its Speakers) in Time and Space
CLASSICS 192, CLASSICS 292 (Win) - Latin Core III: History of Literature
CLASSICS 203L (Spr) - Pedagogy Workshop for Graduate Teachers
CLASSICS 220 (Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Advanced Latin: Informal, Vernacular, and Non-Elite Latin
CLASSICS 103L (Spr) - Making fun of History: Insults, Mockery and Abuse Language in Antiquity
CLASSICS 30N (Win) - Pedagogy Workshop for Graduate Teachers
CLASSICS 220 (Spr) - Through a broken lens? Reading fragments from the 2nd century
CLASSICS 314 (Win)
2020-21 Courses
- Advanced Latin: Early Latin
CLASSICS 102L (Win) - Latin Core III: History of Literature
CLASSICS 203L (Spr) - Pedagogy Workshop for Language Teaching
CLASSICS 220 (Spr)
- Late Latin