I am Associate Professor (Reader) of Classics and Comparative Literature, Director of Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT), and General Editor of the Bloomsbury monograph series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing.

My research intersects classical antiquity and modern literary cultures. I examine ancient Greek and Latin language, literature, and philosophy alongside 20th- and 21st-century experimental composition and creative practices—with a particular focus on Argentina, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, the United States, and Uruguay. Working from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, I trace how ancient texts, ideas, and modes of thought continue to animate contemporary writing and intellectual life.

I am the author of Borges' Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman World (Cambridge, 2018), which was funded by the Leverhulme Trust. My editorial work explores modern and contemporary receptions of antiquity, including the volumes on Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics (Oxford, 2025), Anne Carson/ Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2022), and The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers (Cambridge, 2014). Most recently, I served as volume editor for Chimeric Ecologies: The Poetry of Phoebe Giannisi (Michigan, in press) and guest editor for a special issue on Anne Carson's Euripides (Classical Antiquity, 2023). I also contributed a critical introduction to the 2026 Bloomsbury Modern Classics edition of Anne Carson’s translation of Sophokles. Antigone.

My forthcoming monograph, Anne Carson and Classics: The Indisciplinary Impulse (Cambridge), positions the poet's engagement with classical antiquity as an 'indisciplinary' practice that dismantles the traditional boundaries separating scholarship, translation, criticism, and art. This project has been supported by a University Research Fellowship at Bristol and a Research Fellowship at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies. Closely tied to this extensive work on her oeuvre, I was recently commissioned to write a piece commemorating her winning the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.

My lastest article, 'Cicada Sound Paths: Animal Voice and the Acoustic Ambient', Modern Philology  124.3, explores what I term 'eco-polyphonies' in poet, performer, and environmentalist Phoebe Giannisi's intermedial 'TETTIX'/ 'CICADA'. Broadening this research for public audiences, I have also recently published a piece on Giannisi's avant-garde ecopoetics in The Conversation.

Fellowships, Grants, and Distinctions

• Judge, Michael Marks Poetry Awards (2023-present)
• Research Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (2022-23)
• University Research Fellow, University of Bristol (2022-23)
• Visiting Professor, Stanford University (Fall 2022)
• British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant (2021-23)
• Visiting Research Grant, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (2019)
• Visiting Research Grant, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (2016)
• Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2015-16)
• Visiting Fellow, Princeton University (2015-16)

Teaching

I teach across Greek and Latin language and literature and regularly convene research-led units for advanced undergraduates. Recent teaching includes:

Ancient Environmental Poetry (Greek and Latin); Choral Song from Lyric to Comedy; Greek B: Sophocles' Antigone