Associate Professor of Classics
413-597-4710
Hollander Hall Rm 157
At Williams since 2018
Education
B.A. Wellesley College (2008)
M.A. University of California-Berkeley, Classics (2010)
Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, Classics (2016)
M.A. University of California-Berkeley, Classics (2010)
Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, Classics (2016)
Areas of Expertise
Ancient Greek literature, art, and culture
Courses
CLAS 101 / COMP 101 / DANC 101 / THEA 104 LEC
Greek Literature: Performance, Conflict, Desire (not offered 2025/26)CLAS 105 / COMP 104 TUT
Telling Tales in Ancient Greece (not offered 2025/26)CLAS 211 / THEA 211 / COMP 248 SEM
Performing Greece (not offered 2025/26)CLAS 214 / COMP 284 SEM
Athletics and Literature in Ancient Greece (not offered 2025/26)CLAS 226 / COMP 226 SEM
The Ancient Novel (not offered 2025/26)CLGR 401 SEM
Homer (not offered 2025/26)CLGR 403 LEC
Poetry and Revolution in Archaic Greece (not offered 2025/26)CLGR 422 SEM
Crete in the Ancient Greek Imagination (not offered 2025/26)Scholarship/Creative Work
Books
- 2024. ed., with Zoa Alonso Fernández. Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome. UAM Ediciones.
- 2022. ed., with Mario Telò. Queer Euripides: Re-readings in Greek Tragedy. Bloomsbury.
- Bloomsbury Publishing Podcast: Part 1 | Part 2
- Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby Podcast on Euripides, Gender, and Performance: Full Episode.
- 2021. Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature: Representing the Unruly Body. Cambridge University Press.
Articles and Book Chapters
- 2024. “Body.” Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome. Zoa Alonso Fernández and Sarah Olsen, eds. UAM Ediciones. 109-136.
- 2024. “Electra, Again.” Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical. Sarah Nooter and Mario Telò, eds. Bloomsbury. 153-164.
- 2023. “Fertile Pasts and Sterile Futures in Euripides’ Andromache.” Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature, Kate Gilhuly and Jeffrey Ulrich, eds. Routledge. 47-61.
- 2023. “Politics: Musical Symbols and Civic Rhythms.” A Cultural History of Western Music, vol. 1 (Antiquity), Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVen, eds. Bloomsbury. 79-98.
- 2022. “Andromache: Catfight in Phthia.” Queer Euripides: Re-readings in Greek Tragedy, Sarah Olsen and Mario Telò, eds. Bloomsbury. 145-154.
- 2022. “Thisbe’s Novel: Writing Romance in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica.” Ramus 51: 105-130.
- 2022. “Embracing Thetis in Euripides’ Andromache.” Classical Antiquity 41: 67-90.
- 2021. “Musical Memory on Delos: Theseus in the Archive and the Repertoire.” Music and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean, Lauren Curtis and Naomi Weiss, eds. Cambridge University Press. 65-80.
- 2021. “Narrating Neoptolemus: Dance and Death in Euripides’ Andromache 1085-1165.” Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond,Laura Gianvittorio and Karin Schlapbach, eds. Brill. 156-179.
- 2019. “Sappho’s Kinesthetic Turn: Agency and Embodiment in Archaic Greek Poetry.” The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory, Peter Meineck, William Short, and Jennifer Deveraux, eds. Routledge. 281-295.
- 2019. “Pindar, Paian 6: Genre as Embodied Cultural Knowledge.” Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models, Leslie Kurke, Margaret Foster, and Naomi Weiss, eds. Brill. 325-346.
- 2017. “Les danseuses en Grèce antique. Performance, capacité d’agir, et divertissement.” Clio: Femmes, Genre, et Histoire 46: 19-43.
- 2017. “The Fantastic Phaeacians: Dance and Disruption in the Odyssey.” Classical Antiquity 36: 1-32.
- 2017. “Kinesthetic Choreia: Empathy, Memory, and Dance in Ancient Greece.” Classical Philology 112: 153-174.
- 2015.“Conceptualizing Choreia on the François Vase: Theseus and the Athenian Youths.” Mètis: Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens N.S. 13: 107-121.
- 2012. “Maculate Conception: Sexual Ideology and Creative Authority in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica.” American Journal of Philology 133: 301-322.
Book Review
- Review of The Anatomy of Dance Discourse: Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the later Graeco-Roman World, by Karin Schlapbach (Oxford University Press). Bryn Mawr Classical Review.