Biography
I am currently a Junior Research Fellow-Elect (under Title A) at Trinity College, Cambridge (2024-2028). I previously read for a PhD in Classics at Corpus Christi College (2019-2023), Cambridge, following a BA and MPhil in Classics and Ancient History (2013-2018) at the University of Sydney.
Research
I work on Greek literature, especially of the Hellenistic and imperial periods. My current work explores the way(s) in which the Greek authors of the Roman Empire challenged, complicated, and sometimes cooperated with the vision of “empire without end” that featured so prominently in the propaganda of the Augustan (and post-Augustan) empire. I am currently working on a book about the seacoast in the imperial Greek geographical imagination and beginning a project on the new vision(s) of the cosmos generated by the Christian intellectuals of late antiquity. I also have a keen interest in questions of method and reading practice and am presently exploring the possibility that approaches like postcriticism, surface reading, and a properly configured ecocriticism might help us to move beyond “the limits of critique”.
Publications
Articles
- “Etymology and Negative Theology in Clement of Alexandria’s Protrepticus”, in Journal of Early Christian Studies. (2024, Forthcoming)
- “Autopsy and Didactic Authority: Rethinking the Prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes”, in Classical Quarterly 72.2: 558-72. (2023) (with Grant Kynaston)
- “Geography in Couplets? A Note on the Fragment(s) of Zenothemis’ Periplous”, in Mnemosyne 75: 521-30. (2022)
- “The Paradox of Gerontocracy in Homer's Iliad”, in Classicum 42.1: 14-18. (2016)
Book Chapters
- “Almost There: Festival Ecphrasis from Libanius to Heliodorus”, in Eric Csapo, Emmanuela Bakola, and Zahra Newby (eds.), Experiencing Ancient Festivals (De Gruyter). (2024, Forthcoming)
- “Prayer”, in Julia Kindt (ed.), Ancient Greek Personal Religion (Cambridge University Press). (2024, Forthcoming)
Reference Entries
- “Dionysius of Byzantium”, in Tim Whitmarsh (ed.), Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford University Press). (2023)
Reviews
- Duane Roller. “The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria: An Analysis”, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review. (Forthcoming, 2024)
- Georgia L. Irby “Conceptions of the Watery World in Graeco-Roman Antiquity”, in Journal of Roman Studies 113: 258-59. (2023)
- Duane Roller “Three Geographical Treatises in Translation: Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus”, in Classical Review 73.1: 16-18. (2023)
- Alice König, Rebecca Langlands, and James Uden (eds.) “Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire 96-235: Cross-Cultural Interactions”, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review. (2020)
Translations
- Florian Steger and Frank Ursin “Animals in Asclepian Medicine: Myth, Cult, and Miracle Healings”, in Julia Kindt (ed.) Animals in Ancient Greek Religion (Routledge): 239-59. (2020) (German to English)
Popular Audience
- “Orbis Terrarum: The Global Imaginary from Antiquity to Earthrise”, in The Scholar (Annual Magazine of the Gates Cambridge Trust). (2020)
- “Brothers: A Translation of the New Sappho”, in ARNA (Literary Journal of the Sydney Arts Students Society). (2016)
Teaching and Supervisions
I am currently Praeceptor in Classics at Corpus Christi College where I supervise papers in Greek and Latin language and literature for Prelims, Part I, and Part II of the Classical Tripos. I also offer lectures for The World of the Greek Novel in the Faculty of Classics (IB, C3).
