Associate Professor

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Latin literature and Roman culture / poetry of Ovid and its reception / ecocriticism and the environmental humanities

BA Grand Valley State University
PhD University of Pennsylvania

GVSU representative to the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Venus discors: The Empedocleo-Lucretian Background of Venus and Calliope’s Song in Metamorphoses 5,” in Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, eds. K. Volk and G. Williams, (Oxford University Press, 2022).

“The Poetics of Strife and Competition in Hesiod and Ovid,” in Eris vs. Aemulatio: Competition in the Ancient World, eds. C. Damon and C. Pieper, (Brill, 2018).

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