Research Areas

Greek and Roman drama, epic, and Apuleius; critical theory (psychoanalysis, Frankfurt school, queer theory)

Biography

I am a PhD candidate in Classics with broad interests in theoretical approaches to ancient literature. My dissertation, "The Queer Art of Terence," offers a rereading of Terence’s plays through the lens of psychoanalysis and queer theory, but I have also published articles and essays on Homer, Euripides, Plautus, Terence, and Apuleius. My work tends to focus on aesthetic form and odd, seemingly stray details which prove on closer inspection to condense the larger concerns of a text or the ideological tensions of the society that produced it.

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