Employment
Adjunct Lecturer, Greek and Roman Classics, Temple University, 2018-
Adjunct Lecturer, Classical Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania, 2017-
Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2017
Education
Ph.D. Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
Dissertation: ‘Conceptions of the Poetic in Classical Greek Prose’
Supervisor: Sheila Murnaghan
M.A. Classics / Philology, University of Texas at Austin, 2005
B.A. Classics and Creative Writing, Columbia University, 2003
Publications
“Dreams,” encyclopedia entry for The Cambridge Guide to Homer, edd.
Corinne Pache (Cambridge UP, 2020).
“Elizabeth Barrett,” Women and Social Movements (2019).
“Dr. Gertrude Elizabeth Curtis,” The Biographical Database of Militant Woman
Suffragists, ed. Thomas Dublin (Center for the Historical Study of Women and
Gender, 2019).
“Lida Stokes Adams” and “Florence Lukens Piersol,” The Online Encyclopedia of
Women’s Suffrage, Pennsylvania (National American Woman Suffrage Association, 2019).
“Himmler’s Antiquity,” Los Angeles Review of Books (October 2018).
“Integrating Writing in the Classics Classroom,” The Journal of Teaching Classics
18.35 (1-5): 2017.
“Alison Turnbull Hopkins,” Women and Social Movements in the United States 21.1:
2017.
“Theseus Loses his Way: Viktor Pelevin’s Helmet of Horror and the old labyrinth for
the new world.” Dialogue special issue, Classical Representations in Popular Culture, edd. Kirsten Day and Benjamin Haller (February 2014).
“Coming Home with Odysseus: meeting myself in re-reading,” Cloelia n.s. 4 (2014).
Scholarly Presentations
“Reconstructing Classical Studies: Promoting Inclusion through Disciplinary History.”
Race in Core Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, March 2020.
“The Gorgon’s Healing Song.”
2nd Annual Temple Consortium on Women, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, February 2019.
“Integrating Writing in the Classics Classroom.”
CAAS, Washington D.C., October 2014.
“Flipping Greek Tragedy: The Hip Hop Chorus.”
CAMP panel, SCS, Seattle, Washington, January 2013.
“Theories of Logoi in Isocrates: A Case Study.”
CAAS, Wilmington, Delaware, October 2009.
“Penelope Dreamer: Homeric Exceptions to the Dream Type-Scene.”
CAMWS Southern Section, Asheville, North Carolina, November 2008.
“Theseus Loses His Way: The Hyperfluous Man in Viktor Pelevin’s The Helmet of
Horror.”
Refashioning the Classics: Modern Fabrications of the Ancient World, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, September 2008.
“The Modern Labyrinth.”
SWPCA, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2008.
“Quanta tibi dederim nostris monumenta libellis: Rome in Ovid’s Tristia.”
4th Annual Sequels Third World and Ethnic Studies Symposium, Austin, Texas, April 2005.
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Greek and Roman Classics, Temple University, 2018-
Race in the Ancient Mediterranean
General education course on race in antiquity and its legacy.
Sacred Space
General education course on religion and the sacred in the Greco-Roman worlds.
Latin 1001/1002
Beginning Latin.
Latin 2001/2002
Intermediate Latin.
Greek 2001/2002
3rd and 4th semester Greek.
Adjunct Lecturer, Classical Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania, 2017-
Greek 203-204
3rd-4th semester Greek
Latin 101-102
1st-2nd semester Latin
Latin 203-204
3rd-4th semester Latin.
Classical Tradition
Seminar on Greek and Roman literature in translation; thematically organized around community and the politics of belonging.
Lecturer, Critical Writing Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2011- 2017
War, Remembrance, and the Iliad
Freshman critical writing seminar examining the ways that the Iliad is as an example of how artistic and poetic responses to war preserve communal memory.
Race in the Ancient World
Freshman critical writing seminar considering theories and practices of race and race formation in antiquity, and their legacy in the modern world.
Magic in the Ancient World
Freshman critical writing seminar analyzing the practices of ancient magic by means of both literary and material evidence from ancient Greece and Rome.
Violence and Vengeance in Greek Tragedy
Freshman critical writing seminar studying gender and agency in Greek tragedy.
Cleopatra: Myth, History, Legacy
Freshman critical writing seminar tracing the life and legacy of the last pharaoh.
Tragedy’s Monstrous Mothers
Freshman critical writing seminar focusing on the relationship between maternal grief and violence in Greek tragedy.
The Eternal Warriors
Freshman critical writing seminar on Xenophon’s Anabasis and its afterlife.
The Irresistible Fairy Tale
Freshman critical writing seminar addressed to the history and development of fairy tales as a literary genre.
The Politics of Home
Freshman critical writing seminar, aimed at international students and non-native speakers, examining conceptions of home and identity construction.
Instructor, Online Summer Language Program, Erasmus Academy, 2011-2012
Intensive Elementary Greek
8-week virtual seminar taught with webinar software
Graduate Fellow, Critical Writing Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2011
The Eternal Warriors
Graduate Instructor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Latin for Reading Knowledge, summer 2010
Intensive Elementary Greek, summer 2008
Greek and Roman Mythology (TA with recitations), spring 2008
Intermediate Greek Prose, fall 2007
Elementary Latin II, spring 2007
Elementary Latin I, fall 2006
Service
Pre-major Advisor, University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2017
Writing tutor to graduate students, Critical Writing Center, 2015-2017
Volunteer leader, Penn Reading Project, 2015
Faculty Editor of 3808, University of Pennsylvania’s journal of undergraduate critical writing, 2014, 2015
Preceptorial leader, University of Pennsylvania, fall 2013 and fall 2014
Research Interests
Greek literature and poetics
Constructions of genre
Gender studies
Reception
Writing pedagogy
Other Professional Experience
Social Media Chair, Women’s Classical Caucus, 2015-2017
Volunteer leader for an online Sappho reading group, December 2014-January 2015
Volunteer leader for an online Odyssey reading group, December 2013-January 2014
Volunteer leader for an online Iliad reading group, December 2012-January 2013
Volunteer Latin instructor for a public online learning community, spring 2012
Private tutor, Greek and Latin, Philadelphia and New York, 2009-2011
Department representative, Graduate Student Government, 2007-2008
Editorial and research assistant, Robert F. Martin, Tritos, 2006
Research assistant, University of Pennsylvania, Robert Kraft, APIS, 2005-2006
Research assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Peter Green, 2004
Research assistant, Columbia University, W.V. Harris, 2002-2003
References
Dr. Karen Hersch, Associate Professor, Temple University, khersch@temple.edu.
Dr. Sheila Murnaghan, Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek, University of Pennsylvania, smurnagh@sas.upenn.edu.
Dr. Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Professor, Temple University, robin@temple.edu.
Dr. Corinne Pache, Associate Professor, Trinity University, corinne.pache@trinity.edu.