Professor, Classical Studies

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

Curriculum Vitæ

Education

 

Ph. D., Harvard University
B.A. Swarthmore

Research Interests

Greek literature and intellectual history
Ancient comic and satirical poetic genres
Ancient medicine

Selected Work

Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire (Oxford U. Press, 2007)
Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition (APA American Classical Studies 19, 1988)

Teaching Fields

Greek literature and intellectual history
Ancient comic and satirical poetic genres
Ancient medicine

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