Biography
My research specialties are Homeric epic and ancient Greek tragedy. I investigate the Iliad and Odyssey as oral, traditional epics and strive to understand them on those terms. For both Homeric epic and Greek tragedy, I am especially interested in the performance of these works and how that performance informs or affects the interpretation of them. Much of my scholarship is collaborative, especially that related to the Homer Multitext.
Books
Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush (with Casey Dué).
Washington DC and Cambridge MA: Center for Hellenic Studies and Harvard University Press, 2010. 2nd corrected printing 2011.
Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature
Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2003.
Articles
- "Iphigenia: A Selection," in Ancient Exchanges, January 2023
- "Homeric Epic in Performance," 9-20 in The Cambridge Guide to Homer, ed. Corinne Ondine Pache, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020.
- "Life/Story: Eumaues the Swineherd Tell His Own Tale," NonBinary Review, issue 22 (2019): 142–146.
- "The Homer Multitext within the History of Access to Homeric Epic, " (with Casey Dué), 239–256 in Digital Classical Philology: Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution, ed. Monica Berti, Berlin, Boston: DeGruyter, 2019.
- "Thucydides' Use of Homer in his Archaeology," 89–103 in Pushing the Boundaries of Historia, eds. M. English and L. Fratantuono, London and New York: Routledge, 2019.
- "Seeking Odysseus's Sister," Michigan Quarterly Review 56.2 (Spring 2017): 268–284. Full text here.
- “Hippolytus,” 107–121 in A Companion to Euripides, ed. Laura McClure, Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 2017.
Courses
- Greek & Roman Epic
- Introduction To Greek 1