Visiting Assistant Professor

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Pagan rhetoric, philosophy, and historiography under the later Roman Empire / The emperor Julian / Reception of Greece, Rome, & Byzantium in heavy metal music

BA University of Maine
MA University of Iowa
PhD University of Iowa

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth, and the Refounding of Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025.

“Sparta and the Reception of Ancient History in Metal Music.” In The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music, ed. J. Herbst, 99-114. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

“From Romulus Conditor to Hadrianus Augustus: Livy’s Seven Kings of Rome in Florus.” In Sources et modèles des historiens anciens II, eds. O. Devillers & B. B. Sebastiani, 341-355.  Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2021.

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