Biography
My PhD, funded by the Gates Cambridge Trust, focusses on imperial Greek periplographic literature with a view to uncovering a conception of the seacoast as a symbol of the territorial limitation of the Roman Empire. My broader research concerns the literary cultures of the Roman Empire with a particular focus on Christian writers such as Clement of Alexandria and Cosmas Indicopleustes.
My work has been published, or is due to be published, in Classical Quarterly, Mnemosyne, the Journal of Early Christian Studies, the Journal of Roman Studies, Classicum, Classical Review, and Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
I am also an experienced teacher of Greek and Latin language and literature and currently hold the post of Praeceptor in Classics at Corpus Christi College.
Prior Education:
- MPhil Classics and Ancient History (High Distinction), University of Sydney.
- BA Ancient Greek and Ancient History (Hons 1, University Medal), University of Sydney.
Research
- Ancient geography (especially periplography)
- Christian apologetic literature (especially Clement, Justin, Tatian, and Athenagoras)
- Cosmography in Late Antiquity
- Imperial Greek (i.e. the so-called 'Second Sophistic')
- Greek textual criticism
Publications
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(2023, Forthcoming) 'Etymology and Negative Theology in Clement of Alexandria's Protrepticus', in Journal of Early Christian Studies.
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(2023) (with Grant Kynaston) 'Autopsy and Didactic Authority: Rethinking the Prologue of the Periodos to Nicomedes', in Classical Quarterly 72.2: 558-72.
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(2022) 'Geography in Couplets? A Note on the Fragment(s) of Zenothemis' Periplous', in Mnemosyne 75: 521-30.
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(2016) 'The Paradox of Gerontocracy in Homer's Iliad', in Classicum 42.1: 14-18.
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(2024, Forthcoming) 'Almost There: Festival Ecphrasis from Libanius to Heliodorus', in Eric Csapo, Emmanuela Bakola, and Zahra Newby (eds.), Experiencing Ancient Festivals (Oxford University Press)
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(2024, Forthcoming) 'Prayer', in Julia Kindt (ed.), Ancient Greek Personal Religion (Cambridge University Press).
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(2023, Forthcoming) Review: Georgia L. Irby 'Conceptions of the Watery World in Graeco-Roman Antiquity', in Journal of Roman Studies.
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(2023) 'Dionysius of Byzantium', in Tim Whitmarsh (ed.), Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford University Press).
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(2023) Review: Duane Roller 'Three Geographical Treatises in Translation: Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus', in Classical Review 73.1: 16-18.
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(2020) Review: Alice König, Rebecca Langlands, and James Uden (eds.) 'Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire 96-235: Cross-Cultural Interactions', in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
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(2020) Translation (German to English): Florian Steger and Frank Ursin 'Animals in Asclepian Medicine: Myth, Cult, and Miracle Healings', in Julia Kindt (ed.) Animals in Ancient Greek Religion (Routledge): 239-59.
Teaching and Supervisions
I provide supervisions at various colleges in Greek literature; Latin literature; Greek language; and the history of Late Antiquity. I teach Latin and Greek language classes in the Faculty of Classics as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PTA) and hold the post of Praeceptor in Classics at Corpus Christi College. I also provide teaching for outreach programmes, including the Corpus Christi Bridging Course.
Other Professional Activities
- 2022: Convenor (with Estelle Strazdins), Terraqueous Topographies in Postclassical Greek Literature (Cambridge/Queensland)
- 2022: Founder and Convenor, Ecocritical Classics Reading Group (Cambridge)
- 2021: Convenor (with Conor McKee), Macrocosms and Microcosms from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Cambridge)
- 2020-21: Convenor (with Rares Marinescu), Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar Series (Cambridge)
- 2017: Convenor, Immortal Words: Classical Antiquity Then and Now (Sydney)
I am a member in good standing of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS), and the Classical Association of the United Kingdom (CA).
