Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests:
Late Antique Greek and Latin Literature
Ancient Travel Writing and Encyclopedism
Syriac Language and Literature
Greek-Syriac Literary Interaction (e.g., Romanos the Melode)
Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Forgery
Positions:
Fall 2007—present
Assistant Professor of Classics, Washington and Lee University
2006—2007
Visiting Lecturer in Classics, Harvard University
2004—2007
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Degrees:
D.Phil. in Classics, University of Oxford (2005)
M.Phil. in Classics, University of Oxford (2001)
B.A. in Classics, Vanderbilt University (1999, summa cum laude)
Books:
The Life and Miracles of Thekla, A Literary Study (2006, Center for Hellenic Studies & Harvard U.P.)
Reviews: BMCR (link), TMR (link), JThS (pdf), CR (pdf)
ed., Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism (2006, Ashgate)
Reviews: TMR (pdf), Medium Aevum (pdf)
Work in Progress:
All the World’s Knowledge: Geography and Literature in Late Antiquity (MS in preparation)
ed., The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity (contracted from OUP; c. 45 chapters)
Articles & Reviews:
“Reviving the Memory of the Apostles: Apocryphal Tradition and Travel Literature in Late Antiquity.” In Revival and Resurgence in Christian History, edited by Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory, 1-26. Studies in Church History 44. Woodbridge: Ecclesiastical History Society and Boydell Press, 2008. (pdf)
“Apocrypha and the Literary Past in Late Antiquity,” in Hagit Amirav and Bas ter Haar Romeny (eds.),
From Rome to Constantinople: Studies in Honour of Averil Cameron (Leuven: Peeters, 2007) 47–66. (pdf)
Review of Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book (Cambridge, Mass., 2006), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.06.41. (BMCR link)
“Classical Sources for Early Christian Miracle Collections: The Case of the Fifth-Century Life and Miracles of Thecla,” Studia Patristica 39 (2006) 399–407. (Revised as Chapter 4 of The Life and Miracles of Thekla, A Literary Study; see above)
“Late Antique Narrative Fiction: Apocryphal Acta and the Greek Novel in the Fifth-Century Life and Miracles of Thekla,” in Greek Literature in Late Antiquity (Aldershot, 2006) 189–207. (pdf)
Review of Bernadette Simon, Nonnos de Panopolis: Les Dionysiaques, Tome XVI, Chants XLIV–XLVI (Paris, 2004) in Classical Review 56.1 (2006) 86–87. (pdf)
Review of Gianfranco Agosti, Nonno di Panopoli: Parafrasi del Vangelo di San Giovanni, Canto Quinto (Florence, 2003) in Classical Review 55.2 (2005) 474–476. (pdf)
Review of Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau, Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (California, 2000) in Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004) 274–275. (pdf)
Review of Stephen Davis, The Cult of Saint Thecla (Oxford, 2001), in Heythrop Journal 45 (2004) 80–82. (pdf)
Review of Liz James, Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium (London, 2001), in Classical Review 53 (2003) 186–187. (pdf)
Review of Patricia Cox Miller, The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity (Aldershot, 2001), in Heythrop Journal 44 (2003) 506–508. (pdf)
Review of Judith Herrin, Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (London, 2001), in Journal of Hellenic Studies 122 (2002) 204–205. (pdf)
“The Sinful Woman: A memra by Jacob of Serugh,” in Sobornost/Eastern Churches Review 24. 1 (2002) 58–90.
Recent Invited Papers:
“Apostolic Geography: The Origins and Continuity of a Hagiographical Habit”, in the colloquium, “Landscapes of the Saints: Hagiography and Land in the Near East and Europe, ca. 400-900” (Princeton, March 2008)
“East and Further East: Syriac Christianity at the End of the Ancient World,” Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecture (Brandeis, October 2006)
“Wandering with the Apostles: Apocryphal Tradition and Travel Literature in Late Antiquity,” Ecclesiastical History Society Annual Meeting (Cardiff, July 2006)
Grants, Awards, & Honors:
Recipient of Glenn Grant for Research, Washington and Lee University, 2008
Recipient of research grant from William F. Milton Fund, Harvard University, 2006–2007
Elected to a Mellon Fellowship, 1999–2000 (declined)
Phi Beta Kappa, inducted May 1999
Courses Taught:
Introductory Greek, Hansen and Quinn (2007–08, 2008–09, W&L)
Medieval Latin Survey (Fall 2008, W&L)
World of Late Antiquity: Constantine to Muhhamad (Spring 2008, W&L)
Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (Winter 2008, W&L)
Augustine’s Confessions (Fall 2007, W&L)
Plato’s Ion (Fall 2007, W&L)
Late Antique and Medieval Latin Poetry (Spring 2007, Harvard)
Biography in the Classical Tradition (Spring 2007, Harvard)
Aristophanes’ Clouds (Fall 2006, Harvard)
Greek Prose Composition (Fall 2006, Harvard)
(last updated: 15 September, 2008)