
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