of Victoria
Roman StudiesNavigation
on administrative leave
PhD (Yale)
Early Greek poetry: Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and archaic lyric; particular interest in narrative and gender theory.
My research area is early Greek poetry: Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and archaic lyric. I have particular interests in narrative and gender theory.
I supervise students in ancient Greek poetry and literature, primarily in the archaic period.
Recent Graduate Supervisions:
Glenn Beauvais, “Charis and Hubris in Pindaric Cosmology”, 2015.
Jessica Romney, “The Rhetoric of Cohesion: Allusions to Homeric Heroes in the Poetry of Tyrtaeus, 2011.
Peter Miller, “Alcman’s Partheneion and the Near East”, 2009.
“Sex in Ancient Greek and Roman Epic”, in A Companion to Greek and Roman
Sexualities, Thomas K. Hubbard, ed. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp. 314-334.
“Giulia Sissa, Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World”, The Historian, Vol. 72.3, 2010, pp. 707-708 (review).
“Ruth Scodel, Epic Facework”, Mouseion Vol. 53, 2009, pp. 344-346 (review).
“Andromache Karanika, Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece”, Classical Journal (review).
Cunning Intelligence in the Iliad and Odyssey (monograph in preparation).
I am currently writing an article on “polumetis Odysseus” based on talks I have presented at the Classical Association of Canada and the University of Victoria.
I am also working on an article on the figure of Nestor and his relationship to metis (cunning intelligence) and narrative strategies in the Iliad.