Personal Biography
I have been a fellow at Corpus since 1987 and was tutor in Latin 1987-2020. Previously I was a post-doc (JRF) at St John’s College, Oxford, and a junior lecturer at Magdalen. But I have also been a visiting lecturer on six continents, make regular academic visits to Italy and Greece, and worked for some years on collaborative Latin commentary projects in the Netherlands and Germany; I am an occasional visiting professor at the University of Stellenbosch and have been a visiting professor/fellow at/in Stanford, IAS Princeton, SNS Pisa, Rome (La Sapienza), Siena, Turin, Paris (Sorbonne Université), Bergen, Copenhagen, Trondheim, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and the Universities of Canterbury and Otago in New Zealand.
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Research
My main research interests are in Latin literature and its reception, particularly Augustan poetry (esp. Vergil and Horace), the Roman novel (esp. Apuleius) and neo-Latin (esp. the great 16C Scottish neo-Latin poet George Buchanan). I am happy to supervise doctoral students in all these fields.
Recent Publications
My commentary on Horace Odes 2 appeared with CUP in 2017, along with a book for Bloomsbury on the reception of Horace in 19C UK (Victorian Horace; Classics and Class); recent co-edited volumes include Intratextuality and Latin Literature (De Gruyter, 2018), Roman Receptions of Sappho (OUP, 2019), and Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses (OUP, 2019). Due out in 2024 are a joint monograph on the reception of Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche with Regine May (OUP), a follow-up to our co-edited volume Cupid and Psyche: The Reception of Apuleius’ Love Story since 1600 (De Gruyter, 2020), a select edition with translation of the Latin poetry of Popes Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII (Bloomsbury), and a classical reception commentary (with Lorna Hardwick and Elizabeth Vandiver) on some First World War poets in English (OUP). For a full publication list see here.