Previous employment

– Worcester College (Oxford): College Lecturer (2010-2011)
– Trinity College (Oxford): College Lecturer (2009-2011)
– Somerville College (Oxford): Fulford Junior Research Fellow (2008-2009)

Teaching

Courses regularly taught at UBC:

• AMNE 101: The Greek and Latin Roots of English
• AMNE 151: Greek and Roman Mythology
• AMNE 348: Greek Tragedy
• GREK 300, 400, and 500: Upper-level (graduate and undergraduate) Greek language and literature
• Upper-level (graduate and undergraduate) seminars

Teaching before UBC

Greek literature of the 5th c. BCE; Greek tragedy; Early Greek hexameter poetry; Homer’s Iliad; Greek language; Latin literature of the 1st c. CE; Vergil’s Aeneid; Latin language

Research Interests

I am fundamentally interested in how Greek poets establish and creatively manipulate the conventions of different genres, particularly tragedy and epic. This includes areas such as:

• Silent figures, offstage figures, and the representation of the absent
• Formal structures and processes (e.g. messenger speeches, prologues, laments)
• Anonymity and naming
• The transformation of traditional mythical figures into unique literary characters
• Closure

Research Area

• Greek (Language)
• Latin (Language)
• Greek Studies
• Literature

Projects

My major project at the moment is a monograph on mourning as a site of competition in Greek literature. My aim is to bring out the competitive elements embedded in juxtaposed laments, which are more usually understood as effectively cumulative and only formally antiphonal.

My most recently completed project is a Companion to Euripides’ Children of Heracles (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), an introduction to a fast-paced play that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of refugees, and the obligations and limitations of asylum.

Publications

“Briseis, Xanthus, and suppressed tensions in Iliad 19.” Greece & Rome. Forthcoming (2026)

“Tripled silence in the final tableau of Ajax.” American Journal of Philology. Forthcoming (2026)

“Heralds and messengers: character identity and function in Greek Tragedy.” Classical Philology. Forthcoming. 117.2: 364-385. 2022. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/718685

“The mirrored structure of Thesmophoriazusae: hero, plot, and themes.” Phoenix, 74.3-4: 262-78. Dated 2019, published 2021. Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.7834/phoenix.73.3-4.0262

Euripides: The Children of Heracles, Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy, Bloomsbury Academic (2020)

“Against the Prometheia: rethinking resolution and the ‘connected tetralogy.’” TAPA, 146.2: 257-80. (2016). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/638646

“The Herald of Hyllus? Identifying the Ὕλλου πενέστης in Heracleidae.” Classical Quarterly 65.1: 51-9. (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838814000949.

The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy, Brill (2012)

Recent Conference Papers

• “Bloody hands”. Michael Cacoyannis Foundation Ancient Drama Series: Between Tragedy and Horror. Athens, Greece. 2024.
• “Le tableau tragique: questioning visual and verbal correspondence”. CAC. Laval, QC. 2024.
• “Briseis and Xanthus in Iliad 19”. CAC. Halifax, NS. 2023.

I would be glad to hear from prospective graduate students interested in working in Greek literature, particularly on formal structures and processes in Greek drama.

Recent/current theses supervised include work on boasting in Greek literature, supplication in Aeschylus, and grief in Plutarch.