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
Note: courses in gray are not offered this academic year.
CLAS 212 / COMP 267 / REL 267
The Art of FriendshipCLAS 226 T / COMP 226
The Ancient NovelCLAS 241 T / COMP 241 / WGSS 241
Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and RomeCLLA 407
Caesar and CiceroCLLA 408
Roman ComedyCLLA 409
Seneca and the SelfScholarship/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.
