My research focuses on the intersections between Latin literature, ancient philosophy and gender studies. I also have a strong specialism in classical reception.
My core research is on Seneca the younger and his approach to Stoicism and the family. As a result, I'm interested in his works in general and the social history that provides the context for understanding them, as well as the way that he reshapes Stoicism for Roman culture. In the broader field of Latin literature, I'm interested in innovative approaches to familiar texts, particularly from a feminist perspective or from an angle that incorporates social history and the family.
One half of my classical reception interests focused on classics in popular culture, with a particular interest in film and children's literature. My book on the reception of classical monsters in popular culture was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. The other half is interested in the history of women and classics, in particular how women became professional academic classicists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
As well as academic journal articles and books, I have written for publications with a wider public audience including Times Higher Education, History Today and Strange Horizons. I have media experience working with television, documentary film, radio and newspapers.
Experience
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2020–presentReader in Latin Language & Literature, Royal Holloway
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2018–2020Senior Lecturer in Classics, Royal Holloway
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2013–2018Lecturer in Classics, Royal Holloway
Education
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2011Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, PhD in Classics
Publications
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2020Pater Figure: Leadership, Emperors and Fathers in Seneca and Stoicism, In Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership: Critical and Philosophical Reflections, ed. L. Tompkins
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2020Mazes Intricate: The Minotaur As A Catalyst of Identity Formation in British Young Adult Fiction., In Chasing Mythical Beasts: The Reception of Creatures from Graeco-Roman Mythology in Children’s & Young Adults’ Culture, ed. K. Marciniak.
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2019Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture, Bloomsbury
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2017The Ethics of the Family in Seneca, Cambridge University Press
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2016This Is Not A Chapter About Jane Harrison: Classicists at Newnham College, 1882-1922, In Women Classical Scholars. Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, eds. E. Hall and R. Wyles.
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2014Show Me The Way To Go Home: A Reconsideration of Seneca’s De Consolatione ad Polybium, The American Journal of Philology
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2013“The Dragon-green, the Luminous, the Dark, the Serpent-haunted Sea”: Monsters, Landscape and Gender in Clash of the Titans (1981 and 2010)., New Voices In Classical Reception Studies, Conference Proceedings
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2012She’s Only A Bird in a Gilded Cage: Freedwomen at Trimalchio’s Dinner Party., Classical Quarterly
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