Research Areas

Greek and Roman drama, Homer, Apuleius

Biography

I am a PhD candidate in Classics with broad interests in the study of ancient literature. I have published articles and essays on Homer, Euripides, Plautus, Terence, and Apuleius which focus on the social and aesthetic dimensions of texts, but my work also includes efforts in textual criticism, metrics and prosody, the study of Greek vase painting, and reception. My dissertation, "The Queer Art of Terence," offers a rereading of Terence’s plays through the lens of psychoanalysis and queer theory. 

At Berkeley, I have taught both introductory language courses and as a graduate student instructor for such lecture courses as Introduction to Ancient Greece, Introduction to Ancient Rome, Greek Philosophy, and the writing intensive Classics of the Ancient Mediterranean World. For many years I directed and/or taught Berkeley's Greek Workshop, an intensive introduction to Ancient Greek that covers the first four semesters of traditional instruction (students are encouraged to apply!).

Publications

"Getting Bronze in the Sun: Making Sense of the Remains of Plautus' Vidularia." Classical Philology 116.3 (2021): 424-35

"Orestes. Polymorphously Per-verse: On Queer Metrology," in Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy, edited by Sarah Olsen and Mario Telò (Bloomsbury, 2022), 155-64

"In Search of Lost Haim: Homer and Heimat in the Dialectic of Enlightenment." Classical Receptions Journal 15.3 (2023): 335-351

"Time and Punishment, or Terence's Queer Pedagogy," in The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory, edited by Sara Lindheim, Kirk Ormand, and Ella Haselswerdt (Routledge, 2023), 166-178

"Thelyology: Apuleius's Morphologies of Damage," in The Before and the After: Critical Asynchrony Now, edited by Sean Gurd and Mario Telò (Tangents, Punctum Books, 2025), 91-112