- PhD University of Washington 2011
- MA University of Wisconsin-Madison 2005
- BA Colgate University 1999
Latin and Greek languages and literature
Roman Imperial Literature, especially Apuleius and the Greek Novel; ancient magic
Visiting assistant professor, Bucknell
'Doing Things With Words: The Force of Law and Magic in Apuleius' Metamorphoses' (Trends in Classics, 2012)
'Theama Kainon: Reading Natural History in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon' (ICAN, 2012)
Teach for America, Louisiana; after-school program director, San Francisco, California
Apuleius' Political Animal: A Socio-Cultural Reading of Identity in the Metamorphoses
- Does Clothing Make the Man or Does it Make the Man an Impostor?: Costume and Identity in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, Florida, and Apology
American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington (2013)
- Doing Things with Words: The Force of Law and Magic in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2012)
- The Spell of Achilles Tatius: Gorgias’ Magic and Persuasion Refigured
American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California (2010)
- Theama Kainon: Reading Natural History in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon
International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Lisbon, Portugal (2008)
- Reader as Voyeur in Daphnis and Chloe
“Word and Image” Conference, University of Pennsylvania (2006)
- The Fiction of History: Apuleius’ Twofold Use of Historia in the Golden Ass.
Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Madison, Wisconsin (2005)
- The Singulative Ass / The Iterative Man: Repetition in Apuleius’ Golden Ass.
“Repetition and Error” Conference, University of California – Berkeley (2005)