Biography
As an undergraduate I studied Classics at Emmanuel college, Cambridge. I was then awarded a Herchel Smith scholarship to spend a year at Harvard, followed by a Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship to study for a Masters in Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Comparative Literature) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. My current PhD is funded by a Vice-Chancellor’s Award and Jebb Studentship from the University of Cambridge. In 2024 I was awarded the International Ovidian Society’s W. S. Anderson Graduate Paper Prize for my conference paper “Romulus, son of Ilia - Crossbreeding Genres and the Birth of Rome in Ovid’s Fasti”.
Research
I am researching pregnancy and childbirth in the works of Ovid under the supervision of Professor Philip Hardie. My research interests include the relationship between bodies and literature, Augustan poetry, and classical reception. I teach on Latin literature, Latin language, Greek language, and Classical Reception.
Within the Classics Faculty I convene the Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series, an interdisciplinary series which hosts weekly events featuring both external speakers and talks by graduate students from across different Faculties within Cambridge. For information about our events, see https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/crdg.
In 2025 I am leading a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Classics Beyond the Canon, to take place 31st January – 1st February, with funding from the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities. When available, information will be published at:
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/events-initiatives/
I am a member of the interdisciplinary Cambridge Reproduction Forum and sit on their steering committee as a postgraduate representative. See https://www.repro.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-reproduction-forum.
