I am a finalist PhD candidate in Classics. My thesis explores the strategies of translation from ancient Greek and Roman literature in the work of contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. I examine the relationship between poetry and the Environment by concentrating on the role of environmentally inspired metaphors in envisaging new ways for reading, interpreting and re-writing myths and ancient literatures. My focus is on the intersection between critical and creative writing practices within an ecological theoretical frame. I argue that the task of translating and re-creating ancient literature gains a renewed meaning when considering the interaction between human and non-human / more than human force.

Along with Anne Carson, I am interested in the ways contemporary female translators, writers, and artists have shaped, and reshaped, the perception of ancient Mediterranean world. My work therefore engages with numerous theories and approaches, including Classical Reception, Comparative Literature, World Literary, Translation Theory, Poetry, Visual Arts, Women Studies, and the Environment. My chapter in L. Jansen’s edited volume Anne Carson / Antiquity (Bloomsbury 2021), reflects many of these themes, as does my forthcoming chapter ‘Passim Clouds: Helen, Marilyn and Norma Jean Baker of Troy’ in the volume Women Creating Classics: A Retrospective, edited by E. Hauser and H. Taylor (Bloomsbury 2025). My translations into Italian from Anne Carson’s ‘Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings’ can be found in the literary journal L’Ulisse.

My teaching complements my research interests. I have taught undergraduate units on Ancient Greek Epics and Latin literature, as well as undertaking teaching on a module focusing on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environment. I have taught undergraduates modules on Latin and Greek translation (Intermediate and Advanced Level), and have contributed to undergraduate courses on Ancient Greek epics. I have also taught a module on ekphrasis, and the visual and material representation of ancient poetry. I have prepared and delivered introductory seminars on Reception Studies, and have also taught seminars on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the environmental imagination.

Along with the ability to teach ancient Greek and Latin languages and literatures, I am passionate in creating and delivering contents which offer a primarily visual and sensorial approach to the study of ancient and modern texts. In the future, I wish to combine ancient material sources with paintings, photography and films to explore the ongoing change and metamorphosis of ancient myths in visual culture.