Faculty Member, Classics
University of Southern California, Classics
Visiting Assistant Professor
McMicken College of Arts and Sciences
About
I earned my PhD in Classics in 2009 from the University of Southern California. My dissertation, "Ex Angulis Secretisque Librorum: Reading, Writing, and Using Miscellaneous Knowledge in the Noctes Atticae," discusses the role of random order and miscellaneous content in forming a useful collection of knowledge. I am fascinated by problems of knowledge organization and access, both in the ancient world and the rapidly changing modern world.
I received my BA in Classics with honors in 1999 from Indiana University. I first spent time in Rome as an undergraduate at the Centro, and returned as a 2008 Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. As a graduate student at USC, I worked on the Greek symposium and the Roman convivium before discovering second-century Latin literature and intellectual culture. Other research interests include early modern reception of antiquity, ancient and modern book culture, and genres usually considered subliterary, such as encyclopedias and cookbooks.
