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Biography

My research specialties are Homeric epic and ancient Greek tragedy. I investigate the Iliad and Odyssey as oral, traditional epics and strive to understand them on those terms. For both Homeric epic and Greek tragedy, I am especially interested in the performance of these works and how that performance informs or affects the interpretation of them. Much of my scholarship is collaborative, especially that related to the .

Some of My Publications

Books

, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2003.

Articles

• "," in Ancient Exchanges, January 2023
• "Homeric Epic in Performance," 9-20 in The Cambridge Guide to Homer, ed. Corinne Ondine Pache, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020.
• "Life/Story: Eumaues the Swineherd Tell His Own Tale," (2019): 142–146.
• ", " (with Casey Dué), 239–256 in Digital Classical Philology: Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution, ed. Monica Berti, Berlin, Boston: DeGruyter, 2019.
• "Thucydides' Use of Homer in his Archaeology," 89–103 in Pushing the Boundaries of Historia, eds. M. English and L. Fratantuono, London and New York: Routledge, 2019.
• "," Michigan Quarterly Review 56.2 (Spring 2017): 268–284. . 
• “Hippolytus,” 107–121 in A Companion to Euripides, ed. Laura McClure, Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 2017.
• “Tell Me How It Hurts: an intersection of poetry and pain in the Iliad,” : 31–46.
• “Allies in Fame: Recruiting Warriors in the Theban and Trojan Epic Traditions,”&�Բ�����;Trends in Classics 6.2 (2014): 319–335.
• “Mothers-in-Arms: soldiers’ emotional bonds and Homeric similes” (with Casey Dué), War, Literature, and the Arts, vol. 24, 2012.
• “Error 404: Theban Epic Not Found,”&�Բ�����;Trends in Classics 2.2 (2010): 239–258.
• “” (with Casey Dué), Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.1 (2009). 
• “Text and Technologies: the Iliad and the Venetus A,” 31–56 in , ed. Casey Dué, Center for Hellenic Studies and Harvard University Press, 2009.
• “,”&�Բ�����;Classics@ Issue 3: The Homerizon: Conceptual Interrogations in Homeric Studies, ed. Armstrong and Dué, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. September 2006.
• “Marginal Figures in Greek Tragedy,” 366–376 in A Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. Justina Gregory. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
• “The List of the War Dead in Aeschylus’ Persians,”&�Բ�����;Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000): 83–96.
• “The Wrath of Helen: Self-Blame and Nemesis in the Iliad,” 3–20 in Nine Essays on Homer, ed. Carlisle and Levaniouk, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

Courses

Spring 2023: Greek 102-02 Introduction to Greek 1, MWF 1:00 pm

Classics 103 Greek & Roman Epic, T Th 11:00 am