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Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Sydney

I joined The University of Sydney in 2010, after holding temporary posts at the Universities of Exeter and Bristol and Brasenose College, Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellowship and University Lectureship at Balliol College, Oxford. My main teaching and research interests are in Latin poetry, though I also teach and research in Greek drama, Latin prose and Hellenistic poetry. Though I have published on a wide range of authors, my main focus has been on Roman epic and tragedy. I am particularly interested in the intersection between the often opposed methodologies of historicism, emphasising contexts of production and reception, and approaches which focus on the formal and intertextual features of the text itself.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Senior lecturer in Classics, University of Sydney
  • 2010–2014
    Lecturer in Classics, University of Sydney
  • 2006–2010
    Fairfax Fellow and Tutor in Classics (CUF), Balliol College, Oxford
  • 2006–2010
    University Lecturer in Classics, University of Oxford
  • 2004–2006
    Stipendiary Lecturer in Classics, Brasenose College, Oxford
  • 2002–2004
    Temporary Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol
  • 2001–2002
    Temporary Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter

Education

  • 2002 
    The University of Oxford, DPhil in Classics
  • 1998 
    The University of Oxford, MSt in Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature
  • 1997 
    The University of Oxford, BA (Hons) in Literae Humaniores

Professional Memberships

  • Australasian Society for Classical Studies
  • Classical Association of New South Wales
  • Classical Language Teachers Association
  • Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies