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Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Classics – current PhD student
  • University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics
    • MPhil in Greek and/or Latin Languages & Literature
    • Master’s Dissertation of 25,000 Words: “Necropolitics in Ovid.” Supervisors: Matthew Robinson, Balliol College & Marchella Ward, Worcester College
  • Brown University
    • A.B. Magna Cum Laude, Classics: Latin (with Honors)
    • Senior Honors Thesis: “Mater, Cyrene Mater: Rethinking Narrative in Virgil’s Georgics 4.325-558.” Director: Jeri Debrohun, Reader: Joseph Pucci
  • Languages
    • Ancient Greek, Attic (reading proficiency)
    • Latin (reading proficiency)
    • Italian (conversational & reading proficiency)

Publications

Papers Presented – Conferences

  • “‘They Were Not Two, but a Double Form’: Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Imperial Roman Social Control, and Transgender Bodies as Biopolitical Possibility.” Thinking Gender 2022: Transgender Studies at the Intersections Conference, digital via UCLA Center for the Study of Women, April 8, 2022.
  • “I WOULD KNOW HIM IN DEATH // HELLO, STRANGER: Achilles, Patroclus, and Fanfiction Refracted.” Queer and The Classical: Critical Futures, Critical Feelings Conference, digital via Oxford University, February 20-21, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHk0QtYuVdg
  • “‘Plato: They were gay af and Achilles bottomed’: Classics, Popular Culture, and the Internet.” Oxford Classics – Language & Literature Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, November 13, 2020.
  • “If There’s a Fire You’re Trying to Douse: Un-Making Hegemonic Approaches to Gender & Sexuality in Roman Scholarship.” The Case for Critical Ancient World Studies Conference, digital via Oxford University, September 7, 2020.

Papers Presented – Graduate Fora/Seminars

  • “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Caeneus?: On Dido, Gender, and Virgil’s Accidental Trans Narrative.” UCLA Classics – Graduate Forum, January 20, 2022.
  • “‘Plato: They were gay af and Achilles bottomed’: Classics, Popular Culture, and the Internet.” Oxford Classics – Language & Literature Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, November 13, 2020.
  • “Ladies, Leave Your Man at Home: The Women of Virgil’s Epyllion, Georgics 315-558.” Oxford Classics – Language & Literature Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, February 14, 2020.

Teaching

  • UCLA Classics Department
    • Teaching Assistant, “Classics 20: Discovering the Romans,” April 2023-present
    • Teaching Assistant, “Classics 30: Classical Mythology,” January 2023-March 2023
    • Teaching Assistant, “Classics 10: Discovering the Greeks,” September 2022-December 2022
  • Oxford Faculty of Classics
    • Co-Lead “Hellenistic (and later) poetry: reflections on sexuality, gender and the self” with Dr. Sarah Cullinan Herring, Wadham College, January 2021-March 2021 (the Graduate Weekly Language Seminar for Trinity 2021)
  • Brown University Department of Classics
    • Teaching Assistant for “The American Presidency & the Western Tradition,” September 2013-December 2013
    • Teaching Assistant for “The Idea of Self,” September 2012-December 2012

Academic Employment

  • Political Theory Project, Brown University Department of Political Science
    • Research Assistant to Professor Steven G. Calabresi, June 2012-December 2013
  • Ascanius: The Youth Classics Institute
    • Faculty, “Activities” Class, LatinSummer 2009, January 2009-August 2009

Service

  • UCLA Classics Department
    • EDI Committee Graduate Student Representative, March 2021-present
  • Oxford Faculty of Classics
    • “Language and Literature Taught Program” Graduate Representative, December 2019-December 2020
  • St Anne’s College Middle Common Room Committee
    • LGBTQ+ Representative, January 2020-January 2021
  • Brown University Department of Classics
    • Member of the Editorial Board for the Brown Classical JournalSeptember 2012-May 2014
  • Meiklejohn Advising Program, Brown University Dean of the College
    • Meiklejohn Peer Advisor, September 2011-May 2014
  • Brown-RISD Hillel
    • Member, Student Search Committee for a New University and Hillel Rabbi, February 2013-May 2013