CURRENT
POSITION

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California. 2004.

Ph.D. in Classics

Advisors: William Fitzgerald and Kathleen McCarthy

Dissertation: Martial's Lector, the Practice of Reading, and the Emergence of the General Reader in Flavian Rome.

University of California, Berkeley, 1999

M.A. in Greek

Harvard-Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA, 1997.

A.B. magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Classics

RESEARCH

Research Interests:

• Latin literature, especially Martial and first-person subjective poetry
• Reading and performance practice; ancient literacy
• Gender and sexuality in the ancient world
• The Flavian era

HONORS and AWARDS

• Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2008-09.
• Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Humanities Foundation, Boston University, 2006-07.
• Dissertation Year Fellowship, UC-Berkeley, 2001-02 (deferred until 02-03).
• Scholarship of the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome, 2002.
• P.E.O. Scholars Award, 2001.
• Hesperian Fellowship, Department of Classics, UC-Berkeley, 1997-99.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Member, American Philological Association

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

At Boston University:
• CL 212, Reading Latin Verse (Vergil and Ovid), Spring 2006 and Spring 2007.
• CL 211, Reading Latin Prose (Cicero and Pliny the Younger), Fall 2005.
• CL 522, Survey of Latin Literature (second half: Empire), Fall 2005.
• CL 102, Roman Civilization, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, and Spring 2007.
• CL 112, Intermediate Latin (Latin 2), Spring 2005.
• CL 351, Flavian Literature (upper-division reading course), Fall 2004.
• CL 111, Beginning Latin (Latin 1), Fall 2004.

At UC-Berkeley:
• Classics 10B, Roman Civilization, instructor, Summer 2004.
• Latin 40, Introduction to Latin Prose Composition, instructor, Spring 2004.
• Summer Latin Workshop, second half (Grammar, Ovid, Livy), instructor, Summer 2003.
• Latin 100, Republican Prose, instructor, Summer 2001.
• Latin 2, instructor, Fall 2000.
• Latin 1, instructor, Spring 2000.
• Classics 10A, Greek Civilization, teaching assistant, Fall 1999.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

• Visiting Researcher, University of Waterloo, Summer 2006.
• Editorial Assistant, Classical Antiquity, 1999-2001.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• MAT Coordinator, 2005-present.