Personal Biography

I completed my doctorate at Oxford in 2021, supervised by Prof. Felix Budelmann and supported by an AHRC scholarship. My doctoral thesis combines political and psychological perspectives to study off-stage groups in Athenian drama. Before that, I studied for an MSt in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford (2016-17) and a BA in Classics at Queens’ College, Cambridge (2013-16). I am now delighted to teach Greek literature at Corpus Christi while revising my thesis for publication as a monograph with Oxford University Press, titled Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama.

I have taught at several Oxford colleges, most recently Trinity and Wadham. I currently combine my work at Corpus Christi with teaching responsibilities at Balliol, where I am Stipendiary Lecturer in Greek and Latin Languages.

Research and Teaching

My teaching covers all the Greek literature options in the Oxford Classics BA degree. At Corpus Christi, I will primarily be teaching third- and fourth-year Greek Core, Tragedy and Early Greek Hexameter Poetry, as well as second-year Iliad. My favourite aspect of teaching at Oxford is helping students develop the ability to interrogate and enjoy rich, complex texts (such as Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, which I teach within the Tragedy paper).

My research focuses on Greek tragedy; more broadly, I work on Greek drama, historiography and hexameter poetry from Homer to the Imperial period. I apply ideas from contemporary social science to ancient Greek texts, especially the depiction of group emotion and decision-making. I also research textual criticism and ancient perceptions of gender.

I am deeply committed to outreach and to helping students from underrepresented backgrounds thrive at Oxford. Since 2020, I have been a core Humanities tutor on the Opportunity Oxford undergraduate bridging programme. I also taught at the Wadham Classics Summer School in 2021 and 2022. I welcome opportunities to give Classics-related talks in schools, whether or not they have a history of studying ancient Greece and Rome.

Publications

As sole author:

  • Forthcoming: Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama. Oxford UP.
  • Forthcoming: ‘Innovation, Crowd Psychology and the Comic Dêmos’, in L. Huitink & I. Sluiter, edd. Psychology of the Ancient World. For the series Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation. Brill (Leiden).
  • Review of M. C. Encinas Reguero & M. Quijada Sagredo, edd. Tragic Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Greek Tragedy. BMCR.
  • ‘A Conjecture on Sophocles Electra 278’ Mnemosyne 70 (2017) 867-871.

Joint publications:

  • Contributor to ‘Scholars Respond to Misogynist Nostalgia for Roman Masculinity’, Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics (March 2018).