Biography
I am currently a Junior Research Fellow (under Title A) at Trinity College Cambridge, following a year as Teaching Fellow for Latin at the University of Warwick. I completed my PhD at Cambridge and previously studied at Oxford (MSt) and St Andrews (MA).
Research
My research at present focuses on two forms of ancient poetry: lyric (esp. Horace, lyric time) and epigram (Greek, Latin, inscribed, literary). Throughout my research, I attempt to give equal attention to Greek and Latin material. I am also particularly interested in analysing poetry along other forms of ancient cultural production, such as artworks or calendars.
My first monograph, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. The book reveals the importance of the carpe diem motif and aims to answer how poetry can give us the almost magical impression that something is happening here and now.
Currently, I am working on a new project that investigates the significance of shipwrecks in the ancient imagination.
Publications
Journal Articles
- “The Ancient Photograph: Mirror and Time in Horace Odes 4.10”, Arethusa 58 (2025): 101-25.
- “Writing Down Epic: Another Homeric Allusion in Horace Odes 1.6”, Classical Philology 118 (2023): 125-31.
- “Highway to Hell: AP 11.23 = Antipater of Thessalonica 38 G-P”, Mnemosyne 72 (2019): 459-70.
- “A Note on Laelia in Martial 10.68: Code-Switching, Linguistic and Moral Purity, and Cicero’s Influence on Martial 10.68”, Hermes 147 (2019): 508-14.
Reviews
- K. Gilhuly and J.P. Ulrich, eds. 2023. Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature, London. BMCR 2024.09.38.
- V. Lütkenhaus. 2023. And with the Teian Lyre Imitate Anacreon: The Reception of Anacreon and the Carmina Anacreontea in Horace's Lyric and Iambic Poetry. Göttingen. BMCR 2024.02.45.
Outreach
- “The Greatest King Assyria Never Had”, Omnibus 89 (2025): 6-8.
- “Time and Wine in Rome”, Omnibus 86 (2023): 10-12.
Teaching and Supervisions
I supervise undergraduate papers in Latin literature and have lectured on Latin epic. I also teach a graduate seminar on Latin satire.
