
Chair and Professor of Classics
413-597-4292
Hollander Hall Rm 155
At Williams since 2006
Education
B.A. Reed College (1996)
M.A. University of Pennsylvania, Classics (1999)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Classics (2002)
M.A. University of Pennsylvania, Classics (1999)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Classics (2002)
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
Courses
CLAS 212 / REL 267 / COMP 288 SEM
The Art of Friendship (not offered 2022/23)CLAS 227 / COMP 277 SEM
The Examined Life: Ancient Ethical Literature at Rome (not offered 2022/23)CLAS 241 / COMP 241 / WGSS 241 TUT
Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome (not offered 2022/23)CLGR 402 SEM
Homer: The Odyssey (not offered 2022/23)CLLA 407 LEC
Caesar and Cicero (not offered 2022/23)CLLA 408 SEM
Roman Comedy (not offered 2022/23)CLGR 409 SEM
Plato (not offered 2022/23)CLLA 415 SEM
Ovid's Metamorphoses (not offered 2022/23)Scholarship/Creative Work
Selected publications
- “Sympathetic Rivals: Consolation in Cicero’s Letters.” American Journal of Philology 26.2 (2005).
- “Exemplary Grief: Gender and Virtue in Seneca’s Consolations to Women.” Helios 33.1 (2006).
- “Paternal Grief and the Public Eye: Cicero, Ad Familiares 4.6.” Phoenix 59.3-4 (2005).
- The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
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