Research Areas

Greek and Latin lyric poetry; classical reception; disability studies; translation; ancient Greek and Latin pedagogy; Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee

Coordinator of First-year Language Teaching

Editor, Teaching Classical Languages

Chair, College Greek Exam subcommittee

Biography

Ph.D., 1995, Comparative Literature, Yale University.
B.A., 1990, Classics, Princeton University, summa cum laude.

Publications

Articles & Poetry

“Epilogue.” In Taking Stock: Stereotypes from Asian America to the Ancient Mediterranean, edd. Katherine Lu Hsu and Tori Less. University of Michigan Press (under review).

Catullus c. 4 [beanpod boat]. Ancient Exchanges (Spring 2025).

"Teaching and the Scene of Translating." Ancient Exchanges (Spring 2024).

"The Kinds of Women, or: Man, the Joke's on You." Translation of Semonides 7. Ancient Exchanges (Spring 2024).

“Loving the Impossible: Greek, Latin and Autism” (part 1) (part 2) (Society of Classical Studies blog, October 5, October 11, 2023).

"The Waters Took Him," "930 Madison." Berfrois (July 2021).

Two Eclogues of Vergil (5, 9). Ancient Exchanges (Spring 2021).

"Disability Studies and Asian American Literature." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature and Culture (2019).

“Teaching Classics and/as Disability Advocacy.” Caring For, Caring With: Pedagogical Responses to Living with Disabled People: Special Issue of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Ed. Allison Hobgood. Durham: Duke University Press. (August 2015). 

“A Classicist Goes to Work in Silicon Valley.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 12, 2014). < http://chronicle.com/article/A-Classicist-Goes-to-Work-in/146511/>

“My Autistic Child Receives Great Social Services. Adulthood Is Another Story.” The Guardian (November 29, 2013). < http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/29/autism-access-to-social-services-adulthood>

“For New University Students, Jerry Garcia Has Always Been Dead.” The Guardian (August 20, 2013). <http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/20/2017-mindset-list-feeling-old>

“Are They Going To Take My Child Away?.” The Guardian (July 6, 2013). <http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/06/government-role-caring-for-disabled-children>

“A Teacher's Graduation Wish: Remember the Value of Face-to-Face Interaction.” The Guardian (May 12, 2013). <http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/12/graduation-wish-from-professor>

“Would You Abort a Disabled Child?.” The Guardian (February 22, 2013). <http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/22/abort-down-syndrome-child-society-shares-blame>

“Odysseus and ‘The Fools’: Applying Concepts of Neurodiversity to the Ancient World.” In Ethics and Neurodiversity. Ed. C.D. Herrera and Alexandra Henry. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2013).

“Do We Need a Cure For Autism?.” The Guardian (February 22, 2013). <http://www.guardian.co.uk/ commentisfree/2013/feb/22/does-autism-need-a-cure>

“Autism and the Task of the Translator.” In Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference. Ed. Joyce Davison and Michael Orsini. University of Minnesota Press (Fall 2013).

“Me As a Boy: On Raising an Asian American and Autistic Son.” Special issue of Amerasia Journal on “The State of Illness and Disability” (2012).

"The Disabled Speech of Asian Americans: Silence and Autism in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Father of the Four Passages.” Disability Studies Quarterly (Special Topic: Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity), vol. 30, no. 1. Ed. Ralph and Emily Savarese. (2010). https://library.osu.edu/ojs/index.php/dsq/article/view/1068/1233

“The Wages of Autism.” In Gravity Pulls You In: Essays by Mothers of Autistic Children. Ed. Kyra Anderson and Vicki Forman. Woodbine Books (2010).

“Autism: Presence and Justice.”  With Jim Fisher. In Autism and Faith: A Journey into Community. The Elizabath M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities (May 2008).

“Grass in the Wind.” In Embracing Autism: Essays by parents of children on the autism spectrum. Ed. Robert Parish. Jossey-Bass Publishers (2008)

"Meanings and Models of Disability." In Battlegrounds in the Media. Ed. Robin Andersen. Greenwood Press (2007).

“Fractioned Idiom: Metonymy and the Language of Autism.” In Autism and Representation. Ed. Mark Osteen. Routledge Press (2007).

“Grafting as Comparative Literature: Virgil’s Georgics and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee.” Xcp: cross cultural poetics, no. 10. (2002).

“Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.” In Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographic Sourcebook. Ed. Mary Reichardt. Greenwood Press (2001).

“What does E Pluribus Unum Mean?: Reading the classics and multicultural literature together.” The Classical Journal, 93.1 (1997).

“Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston.” Nassau Literary Review (1989).

Dissertation

"Pears Bearing Apples: Virgil's Georgics--Plato's Phaedrus--Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee. " Ph.d. diss. Yale University (1995). I am revising this dissertation for a book on Dictee and critical classical reception.