Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
317 Weaver Building University Park, PA 16802
Pronouns: She/Her
Research Interests:
Biography:
I study Latin didactic and moralizing texts. I am currently completing my first monograph, Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius’ Saturnalia (forthcoming with Oxford University Press), and am beginning work on a second monograph project, which will look at the development of social and political criticism in Latin dialogues from the Late Republic to Late Antiquity. Alongside my work on didactic and dialogue, I maintain active interests in Latin literary production in North Africa. At Penn State, I am excited to teach courses which will explore the interactions between Greco-Roman and other ancient Mediterranean cultures, and which will introduce students to post-classical and late antique literary texts.
Education Details:
DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford (2021)
MPhil in Classics, University of Cambridge (2017)
BA in Classics (Greek and Latin), Barnard College (2016)
Publications:
Monographs
2026: Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius’ Saturnalia, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Articles
Forthcoming: "Rethinking Empire in the Epistula Didonis ad Aeneam," forthcoming in TAPA
2025: “The meta-poetics of the iudex in Peristephanon 10, 11, and 14,” Mnemosyne 78.4, pp. 708-23
2021: “The late antique afterlife of Roman exemplarity: the case of Scipio Nasica in Livy, Ab urbe condita 29 and Augustine, De civitate Dei 1.30-2.5,” Classical Quarterly 71.2, pp. 676-87
2021: “Heliodorus’ Aethiopica: a new Patristic context,” Ancient Narrative 18, pp. 95-119
Book Chapters
2025: “(Un)exemplary teaching in Boethius’ De consolatione Philosophiae,” in S. De Martin and A. Furlan (eds.), Wisdom Discourse in the Ancient World, London: Routledge, pp. 197-211
2019: “Fake intellectuals and books of unquestionable authority in Aulus Gellius’s Noctes Atticae and Lucian’s aduersus Indoctum,” in R. Berardi, N. Bruno, and L. Fizzarotti (eds.), On the Track of the Books: Scribes, Libraries, and Textual Transmission, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 47-58
Courses
Spr 26
Fall 25