Research Areas

Homer and Homeric reception, Jews in antiquity, Byzantium, book history, histories of philology

Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Classics with a designated emphasis in Jewish Studies. I received my B.A. in Classics (2017) from Columbia University and my M.A. in Classics (2021) from the University of California, Berkeley.

My dissertation, Writing, Orality, and the Jewish Bible in the History of Homeric Philology, investigates the Homeric tradition with a focus on the allure of the spoken word. I also recover ancient Jewish traditions, and their Christian appropriation, as crucial to modern understandings of Homeric transmission and oral literature. In the dissertation and beyond, my research explores histories of reading, writing, and orality in the classical tradition, and is grounded in attention to papyri, inscriptions, and manuscripts. My published work addresses ancient and late antique reading practices, the transmission of classical texts in Byzantium, the modern history of textual scholarship, and other topics.

I teach a wide range of courses, from Greek and Latin language to ancient philosophy and the Homeric epics; in Spring 2026, I will teach a survey of the Hebrew Bible as Visiting Faculty at Middlebury College. I also enjoy offering lectures and courses on the ancient world to the broader community, and I welcome any and all queries.

Publications

“Sacro-Legal Exegesis of Vergil in Late Antiquity.” Studies in Late Antiquity 8.4 (2024): 534–558.

“Epigraphy in the Manuscript Tradition: Interpreting the Match between IG I³ 83 and Thucydides 5.47.” Journal of Epigraphic Studies 7 (2024): 51–84.

Co-edited with Richard N. Levine. Edward Conze’s The Psychology of Mass Propaganda. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Co-authored with Flavio Santini. “Psenkebkis, Son of Pakebkis: New and Old Documents from the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri at The Bancroft Library.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 59 (2022): 61–83.

“A Charybdis of Obscurity: Punctuating Thucydides in Byzantine Manuscripts.” Manuscripta 65.1 (2021): 1–70.

“Barlaam and Josaphat.” In Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, vol. 2: Lives (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Band 29), ed. Jonathan A. Silk. Leiden: Brill, 2019: 39–46.