Teaching

My areas of teaching expertise include Greek and Latin literature, Greek and Roman history, gender and sexuality, and book history in antiquity. I have won teaching awards every semester I have taught at Harvard, including a Commendation for Extraordinary Teaching during the outbreak of COVID-19 (2020), a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for every eligible course I have taught (2016, 2017 x 2, 2018, 2019), and a Teaching Innovator Prize for an activity I designed in 2018. I have also been invited to deliver several guest lectures on ancient book culture, writing materials, and papyrology.

Find out more about my prize-winning activity for the ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize here:

Courses taught at Harvard (*indicates courses awarded a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching)

Spring 2020:

  • Ancient Greek Warfare (teaching fellow)
  • Virgil's Iliadic Aeneid (teaching fellow)
  • Awarded a Commendation for Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times

Spring 2019:

  • History of Latin Literature I (teaching fellow)*

Fall 2018:

  • Introduction to the Ancient Greek World (teaching fellow)*

Spring 2018

  • Books and Libraries in the Greco-Roman World (course designer/sole instructor)
  • Awarded an ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize

Fall 2017

  • Introduction to Ancient Greek Literature (course designer/sole instructor)*
  • The Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece (teaching fellow)*

Fall 2016

  • Beginning Greek (instructor of record)*

 

In another life I worked as a teaching assistant for Brown University's Computer Science Department, where I taught Introduction to Programming and Computer Science, Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures, Introduction to Computer Systems, and Introduction to Software Engineering (between 2009 and 2011). Java, Python, and C++ were easy as pie after Ancient Greek and Latin.