Office: B013 Cocke Hall
Phone: 434-924-6536
Office Hours (Spring 2008): T 2-3; R 11-12.

Current Courses (Spring 2008):
 

CLAS 202	Roman Civilization	TR 9:30-10:30	Cabell 138
LATI 502	Survey of Latin Literature II	TR 3:30-4:45	Cocke 101

BACKGROUND

I'm originally from Indianapolis, Indiana and grew up there and abroad. I did my undergraduate work at Yale before moving on to Cornell for my PhD (with visiting semesters at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and the University of Konstanz). I then spent a happy year in Munich at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, where I wrote dictionary entries for a number of Latin words beginning with the letter P. After that I taught for a couple of years at the University of Illinois, and since 1999 have been in the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia.

TEACHING

Past teaching has included large lecture courses in Greek and Roman Civilization. Smaller upper-level and graduate courses include: Homer, Greek lyric poetry, Survey of Latin Literature I-II, Petronius, the Latin letter, Apuleius, St. Augustine's Confessions and Medieval Latin.

RESEARCH

My research centers on late and medieval Latin, especially the North African allegorist Fulgentius, whose works I'm editing and translating. I have a continuing interest in Greek epic and lyric poetry and its reception in later writers, especially the American and European modernist movements. I translated Marcus Aurelius's Meditations for the Modern Library back in 2002, and have also been sporadically involved with the Suda Online, a web-based translation of this mammoth Byzantine encyclopedia.

Click here for a list of recent publications and conference papers.