Curriculum Vitae
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Literature of the Roman Republic and early Empire, esp. Latin poetry (Catullus, Didactic, Elegy)
Ancient translation theory and practice, Translation Studies, literary theory
Greek and Roman Drama, esp. Roman Comedy, reading/performance cultures, Digital Humanities
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2010–Present Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Languages, Carleton College
2008–2009 Teaching Assistant, Writing Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
2004–2009 Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, UNC-Chapel Hill
EDUCATION
2007–2010 Ph.D. in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Catullus and Roman Dramatic Literature
*Linda Dykstra Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities and Fine Arts
Director: James J. O'Hara
2004–2007 M.A. in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis: Latin Literary Translation in the Late Roman Republic
Director: James J. O'Hara
2002–2004 M.A. in Classical Studies, Boston University
2000–2004 B.A. in Ancient Greek & Latin and Classical Civilization
Double major, magna cum laude, distinction
Honors Thesis: Omnia Sint Operata Deo: Myth and Religion in Tibullus
Director: Stephanie Nelson
BOOKS
Catullus and Roman Comedy: Performance, Tradition, and Personal Drama. Manuscript in preparation.
ARTICLES
“Apollonius, the Launch of the Argo and the Meaning and Significance of decurrere at Catullus 64.6 and Valerius
Flaccus 1.186.” CQ 62 (2012), 692–704.
“Allusive Translation and Chronological Paradox in Varro of Atax’s Argonautae.” Forthcoming in AJP 134/135
(2013/2014).
“The Humor and Thematic Centrality of the patera in Plautus’ Amphitruo.” Forthcoming in G&R 60 (2013).
“The Origin of the Idaean Dactyls (Apollonius Argonautica 1.1129–1131).” Forthcoming in Classical Philology.
REVIEWS
R. Alden Smith. Virgil. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Chichester/Malden, MA. 2011. CJ Online
2012.12.12.
McElduff, Siobhán and Enrica Sciarrion, edd. 2011. Complicating the History of Western Translation: The Ancient
Mediterranean in Perspective. Manchester. BMCR 2012.07.17.
REFEREED TALKS
“‘I Found Someone’…or Did I? Teaching Catullus and Persona Theory through Pop Music.” 4/13, CAMWS.
"Etymological Paradox and Orwellian Doublethink in Cicero's Republic 1.66–68." March 2012, CAMWS.
"Tully's Candor? Literary Translation, Intertextual Polemic, and Political Criticism in Cicero's De Re Publica."
January 2012, APA.
"Apollo Never Spoke Latin: Divine Language, Poetic Inspiration, and Ancient Translation." April 2011, CAMWS.
"Feminine Wiles: Comic Figures and Social Control in Catullus 55." January 2011, APA.
"Exigua Monumenta: Secondary Poetics and the Late Antique Verse Summaries of Vergil's Aeneid." April 2010,
Ohio State University Classics Graduate Conference: Post Scriptum? Questioning the Status of Greek and
Latin Literature in Late Antiquity.
"Pervert, Prostitute, Politician, Prankster: Plautine Allusion in Catullus 21, 24, and 49." March 2010, CAMWS.
"Fretful Birds and Philosopher-Cows: Cicero's Prognostica and Aratus' Diosemeia." November 2009, New York
University Classics Graduate Conference: Honey on the Cup: Didactic in the Ancient World.
"The Limits of Fidelity: Rhetorical Uses of exprimere by Latin Literary Translators." April 2009, CAMWS.
"Neoteric Translation and Intertextual Reference: Varro Atacinus, Cicero's Prognostica, and Catullus 64."
November 2008, CAMWS-Southern Section (*Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper)
INVITED TALKS
“Epic Geographies: HGIS Tools for the Humanities Classroom” (90-minute workshop). 2/23, Rewiring the
Classroom symposium sponsored by HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced
Collaboratory) at the University of Iowa.
“Visualizing Ancient Roman Theaters through Faculty/Student HGIS Research” (as part of a three-person panel on
visual pedagogy). 11/12, Learning and Teaching Center, Carleton College
“Froggy Bottoms, or, Look Out for Falling Kings: Politics in Roman Fable.” 10/12, Carleton College
"What's Zeus Got to Do with It? Translation, Philosophy, and Weather Poetry in Ancient Rome." February 2012,
Oberlin College; February 2010, Carleton College, Ripon College, Amherst College.
"Strengthening Students' Habits of Cooperation with Peers" (as part of a three-person panel). January 2012,
Learning and Teaching Center, Carleton College.
"A Theater in Search of an Audience? Rethinking the Fate of Roman Comedy after the 2nd Century BCE."
November 2010, St. Olaf College.
"'Thus Men Forgot': Modern Fidelity, Religious Faith, and Ancient Translation." October 2010, Carleton College.
TEACHING
Carleton College, Department of Classical Languages
Latin I (Fall 2012)
Latin II (Winter 2011)
Latin III (Spring 2012, Spring 2013) - introduction to Latin poetry through Catullus and Ovid
Latin Love Poetry (Spring 2011) - advanced seminar on Catullus and the elegists; introduction to literary theory
Ovid (Winter 2012) - advanced seminar on the Fasti
Vergil (Fall 2012) - advanced seminar on the Aeneid
Greek I (Winter 2012, Winter 2013)
Greek II (Spring 2011)
Greek III (Fall 2010) - Plato's Euthyphro
Greek Tragedy (Winter 2011) - intermediate/advanced seminar on Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
Herodotus (Spring 2012) - advanced seminar on the Histories
Homer (Winter 2013) - intermediate/advanced seminar on the Iliad
Individual and Society in Western Comedy (Fall 2010, Fall 2011) - first-year seminar
Translation Theory and Practice (Fall 2011) - intermediate seminar
Nature and the Environment in the Ancient World (Spring 2013) - intermediate seminar
UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Classics
Latin II (Spring 2006, Spring 2008)
Latin III (Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2008) - Caesar's De Bello Gallico and De Bello Civili, Cicero's Epistulae
Latin IV (Spring 2007) - Cicero's Pro Caelio and Catullus
Accelerated Latin for Graduate Students I (Fall 2007)
Accelerated Latin for Graduate Students II (Spring 2009) - Classical and Medieval Latin texts
Greek Civilization (Summer 2007)
Roman Civilization (Fall 2004, as a TA)
Greek Mythology (Spring 2005, as a TA)
UNC-Chapel Hill, Writing Center
Worked one-on-one with undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from across disciplines to achieve
writing goals; facilitated individualized development of writing skills; clarified expectations of academic and
professional discourse; helped ESL/NNS students understand and practice American grammar, style, and
idiom.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Faculty/Student Research Assistant, Office of the Dean, Carleton College, Summer 2011
Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge Faculty/Student Research Assistantship, Carleton College,
Summer 2011
Writing Across the Curriculum Course Revision Grant, Carleton College, Summer 2011
Visualizing the Liberal Arts Grant, Carleton College, 2010–2012
Faculty/Student Research Assistantship, Humanities Center, Carleton College, Winter 2010
ACM-Mellon Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholar Fellowship in Classical Studies, 2010–2012 (Declined)
Dissertation Completion Research Fellowship, UNC Graduate School, 2009–2010
Albert Suskin Memorial Travel Grant, Department of Classics at UNC, 2009 and 2010
Professional Transportation Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School, 2009
Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Classics at UNC, 2008–2009
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Classics at UNC, 2008–2009
Teaching Assistantship, UNC Writing Center, 2008–2009
Future Faculty Fellowship Program, UNC Center for Teaching and Learning, Summer 2007
George L. Paddison Graduate Assistantship, Department of Classics at UNC, 2004–2008
Palma Argentea Latin Scholarship (half-tuition), Department of Classics at BU, 2000–2004
HONORS AND AWARDS
Nominated for the Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation
Award in Humanities and Fine Arts, UNC Graduate School, 2011
Linda Dykstra Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts, UNC Graduate School, 2011
Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, CAMWS-Southern Section, 2008
Herington Prize, Department of Classics at UNC (in Latin, 2006; in Greek, 2007)
Dean Elsbeth Melville Latin Prize, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 2002
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Carleton College
Faculty mentor, Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (designed to reduce underrepresentation of
minorities in academia and to provide support for research by students from minority groups)
Academic advisor (for 16 first- and second-year students, 2011–2013
Writing Portfolio Reader, Writing Across the Curriculum Program, 2011 and 2012
Search Committee for Student Writing Consultants, Writing Center, 2011 and 2012
Senior Integrative Exercise (= Honors thesis) Committee, Department of Classical Languages, 2010–Present
UNC-Chapel Hill
Member ex officio of Committees for the Herington Prize, Undergraduate Affairs, and Visiting Lecturers,
Department of Classics, 2008–2009
Research Assistant for Sharon L. James, Department of Classics, 2008–2009
Member of the Graduate Colloquium Committee, Department of Classics, 2004–2005
Literature of the Roman Republic and early Empire, esp. Latin poetry (Catullus, Didactic, Elegy)
Ancient translation theory and practice, Translation Studies, literary theory
Greek and Roman Drama, esp. Roman Comedy, reading/performance cultures, Digital Humanities
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2010–Present Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Languages, Carleton College
2008–2009 Teaching Assistant, Writing Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
2004–2009 Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, UNC-Chapel Hill
EDUCATION
2007–2010 Ph.D. in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Catullus and Roman Dramatic Literature
*Linda Dykstra Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities and Fine Arts
Director: James J. O'Hara
2004–2007 M.A. in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis: Latin Literary Translation in the Late Roman Republic
Director: James J. O'Hara
2002–2004 M.A. in Classical Studies, Boston University
2000–2004 B.A. in Ancient Greek & Latin and Classical Civilization
Double major, magna cum laude, distinction
Honors Thesis: Omnia Sint Operata Deo: Myth and Religion in Tibullus
Director: Stephanie Nelson
BOOKS
Catullus and Roman Comedy: Performance, Tradition, and Personal Drama. Manuscript in preparation.
ARTICLES
“Apollonius, the Launch of the Argo and the Meaning and Significance of decurrere at Catullus 64.6 and Valerius
Flaccus 1.186.” CQ 62 (2012), 692–704.
“Allusive Translation and Chronological Paradox in Varro of Atax’s Argonautae.” Forthcoming in AJP 134/135
(2013/2014).
“The Humor and Thematic Centrality of the patera in Plautus’ Amphitruo.” Forthcoming in G&R 60 (2013).
“The Origin of the Idaean Dactyls (Apollonius Argonautica 1.1129–1131).” Forthcoming in Classical Philology.
REVIEWS
R. Alden Smith. Virgil. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Chichester/Malden, MA. 2011. CJ Online
2012.12.12.
McElduff, Siobhán and Enrica Sciarrion, edd. 2011. Complicating the History of Western Translation: The Ancient
Mediterranean in Perspective. Manchester. BMCR 2012.07.17.
REFEREED TALKS
“‘I Found Someone’…or Did I? Teaching Catullus and Persona Theory through Pop Music.” 4/13, CAMWS.
"Etymological Paradox and Orwellian Doublethink in Cicero's Republic 1.66–68." March 2012, CAMWS.
"Tully's Candor? Literary Translation, Intertextual Polemic, and Political Criticism in Cicero's De Re Publica."
January 2012, APA.
"Apollo Never Spoke Latin: Divine Language, Poetic Inspiration, and Ancient Translation." April 2011, CAMWS.
"Feminine Wiles: Comic Figures and Social Control in Catullus 55." January 2011, APA.
"Exigua Monumenta: Secondary Poetics and the Late Antique Verse Summaries of Vergil's Aeneid." April 2010,
Ohio State University Classics Graduate Conference: Post Scriptum? Questioning the Status of Greek and
Latin Literature in Late Antiquity.
"Pervert, Prostitute, Politician, Prankster: Plautine Allusion in Catullus 21, 24, and 49." March 2010, CAMWS.
"Fretful Birds and Philosopher-Cows: Cicero's Prognostica and Aratus' Diosemeia." November 2009, New York
University Classics Graduate Conference: Honey on the Cup: Didactic in the Ancient World.
"The Limits of Fidelity: Rhetorical Uses of exprimere by Latin Literary Translators." April 2009, CAMWS.
"Neoteric Translation and Intertextual Reference: Varro Atacinus, Cicero's Prognostica, and Catullus 64."
November 2008, CAMWS-Southern Section (*Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper)
INVITED TALKS
“Epic Geographies: HGIS Tools for the Humanities Classroom” (90-minute workshop). 2/23, Rewiring the
Classroom symposium sponsored by HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced
Collaboratory) at the University of Iowa.
“Visualizing Ancient Roman Theaters through Faculty/Student HGIS Research” (as part of a three-person panel on
visual pedagogy). 11/12, Learning and Teaching Center, Carleton College
“Froggy Bottoms, or, Look Out for Falling Kings: Politics in Roman Fable.” 10/12, Carleton College
"What's Zeus Got to Do with It? Translation, Philosophy, and Weather Poetry in Ancient Rome." February 2012,
Oberlin College; February 2010, Carleton College, Ripon College, Amherst College.
"Strengthening Students' Habits of Cooperation with Peers" (as part of a three-person panel). January 2012,
Learning and Teaching Center, Carleton College.
"A Theater in Search of an Audience? Rethinking the Fate of Roman Comedy after the 2nd Century BCE."
November 2010, St. Olaf College.
"'Thus Men Forgot': Modern Fidelity, Religious Faith, and Ancient Translation." October 2010, Carleton College.
TEACHING
Carleton College, Department of Classical Languages
Latin I (Fall 2012)
Latin II (Winter 2011)
Latin III (Spring 2012, Spring 2013) - introduction to Latin poetry through Catullus and Ovid
Latin Love Poetry (Spring 2011) - advanced seminar on Catullus and the elegists; introduction to literary theory
Ovid (Winter 2012) - advanced seminar on the Fasti
Vergil (Fall 2012) - advanced seminar on the Aeneid
Greek I (Winter 2012, Winter 2013)
Greek II (Spring 2011)
Greek III (Fall 2010) - Plato's Euthyphro
Greek Tragedy (Winter 2011) - intermediate/advanced seminar on Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
Herodotus (Spring 2012) - advanced seminar on the Histories
Homer (Winter 2013) - intermediate/advanced seminar on the Iliad
Individual and Society in Western Comedy (Fall 2010, Fall 2011) - first-year seminar
Translation Theory and Practice (Fall 2011) - intermediate seminar
Nature and the Environment in the Ancient World (Spring 2013) - intermediate seminar
UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Classics
Latin II (Spring 2006, Spring 2008)
Latin III (Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2008) - Caesar's De Bello Gallico and De Bello Civili, Cicero's Epistulae
Latin IV (Spring 2007) - Cicero's Pro Caelio and Catullus
Accelerated Latin for Graduate Students I (Fall 2007)
Accelerated Latin for Graduate Students II (Spring 2009) - Classical and Medieval Latin texts
Greek Civilization (Summer 2007)
Roman Civilization (Fall 2004, as a TA)
Greek Mythology (Spring 2005, as a TA)
UNC-Chapel Hill, Writing Center
Worked one-on-one with undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from across disciplines to achieve
writing goals; facilitated individualized development of writing skills; clarified expectations of academic and
professional discourse; helped ESL/NNS students understand and practice American grammar, style, and
idiom.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Faculty/Student Research Assistant, Office of the Dean, Carleton College, Summer 2011
Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge Faculty/Student Research Assistantship, Carleton College,
Summer 2011
Writing Across the Curriculum Course Revision Grant, Carleton College, Summer 2011
Visualizing the Liberal Arts Grant, Carleton College, 2010–2012
Faculty/Student Research Assistantship, Humanities Center, Carleton College, Winter 2010
ACM-Mellon Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholar Fellowship in Classical Studies, 2010–2012 (Declined)
Dissertation Completion Research Fellowship, UNC Graduate School, 2009–2010
Albert Suskin Memorial Travel Grant, Department of Classics at UNC, 2009 and 2010
Professional Transportation Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School, 2009
Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Classics at UNC, 2008–2009
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Classics at UNC, 2008–2009
Teaching Assistantship, UNC Writing Center, 2008–2009
Future Faculty Fellowship Program, UNC Center for Teaching and Learning, Summer 2007
George L. Paddison Graduate Assistantship, Department of Classics at UNC, 2004–2008
Palma Argentea Latin Scholarship (half-tuition), Department of Classics at BU, 2000–2004
HONORS AND AWARDS
Nominated for the Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation
Award in Humanities and Fine Arts, UNC Graduate School, 2011
Linda Dykstra Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts, UNC Graduate School, 2011
Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, CAMWS-Southern Section, 2008
Herington Prize, Department of Classics at UNC (in Latin, 2006; in Greek, 2007)
Dean Elsbeth Melville Latin Prize, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 2002
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Carleton College
Faculty mentor, Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (designed to reduce underrepresentation of
minorities in academia and to provide support for research by students from minority groups)
Academic advisor (for 16 first- and second-year students, 2011–2013
Writing Portfolio Reader, Writing Across the Curriculum Program, 2011 and 2012
Search Committee for Student Writing Consultants, Writing Center, 2011 and 2012
Senior Integrative Exercise (= Honors thesis) Committee, Department of Classical Languages, 2010–Present
UNC-Chapel Hill
Member ex officio of Committees for the Herington Prize, Undergraduate Affairs, and Visiting Lecturers,
Department of Classics, 2008–2009
Research Assistant for Sharon L. James, Department of Classics, 2008–2009
Member of the Graduate Colloquium Committee, Department of Classics, 2004–2005