In research and teaching, my work centers on epic poetry and its transformations from Homer to the Middle Ages and beyond. My projects on epic over the longue durée draw together sources from different periods of Greek and Latin literature to explore the combination of creativity and constraint that has enabled this enduring genre to survive across the centuries. Additional interests include grief in Greece and Rome, women in the ancient world, the poetry of late antiquity, and the theory and practice of translation. I have also published on medieval Irish adaptations of classical epic, an understudied area of vernacular reception on which I plan further research. Other upcoming projects address a textual difficulty in Heroides 15, intertextuality in the Ilias Latina, and the Latin four-word hexameter line.

My dissertation, "Sunt Lacrimae Rerum: Decorum and Grief in Ancient and Medieval Latin Epic," examines the ways in which constraints of appropriateness regulate representations of grief in epic texts from antiquity to the twelfth century CE. In summer 2023, this study was featured in a Harvard news piece (“Epic Grief: How decorum—as depicted in classical literature—can help us understand how people mourn”).

Together with Scott McGill (Rice University), I am working on a verse translation of the Aeneid, under contract with W. W. Norton. Substantial selections will appear in the Norton Anthology of World Literature in November 2023, and the full volume will be published in 2024. For a profile of our work in earlier stages of this project, see “A Continued Cultivation of the Classics” (Rice University School of Humanities News, 2020).

In May 2024, I will complete my Ph.D. in Classical Philology with a secondary field in Medieval Celtic Languages. I received my A.M. in Classical Philology from Harvard in 2020 and my B.A. in Classical Studies and Medieval and Early Modern Studies from Rice University in 2018. As an undergraduate, I also spent a semester as a visiting student at Worcester College, Oxford, where my studies focused on epic poetry from the Iliad and Odyssey to early modern English literature.