I’m a linguist and classicist with interests in the Greek and Latin languages, their history and development, and the interaction between linguistics and literary art. I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 2015 with a dissertation on the pragmatic significance of word order in Greek, and have since taught Greek, Latin, and classical literature courses at Berkeley, Stanford, and San Francisco State University, including directing the intensive Berkeley summer workshops in both Greek and Latin. I joined the faculty at UBC in summer 2025.

Research Interests

• Indo-European historical linguistics
• literary style and genre
• Greek and Latin pedagogy
• the ancient novel
• Greek word order

Research Areas

• Greek (Language)
• Hebrew (Language)
• Latin (Language)
• Literature