My research falls into two main areas:

• Ancient literature, esp. Latin poetry, in light of modern discourses
  (esp. linguistics and sensory anthropology)
  book
  Silence in Catullus (Wisconsin 2013)Drawing on linguistics and sensory anthropology, I argue that Catullus develops images of different kinds of silence—literal pauses in reported conversation, rhetorical devices involving suppression of topic, sociocultural taboos and other prohibitions against speech, and the ultimate silence of death—to devise a ‘poetics of silence.’

  articles
  “Classical Desires in Call Me by Your Name.” Antiquipop (online, n.s.) 2018.
  “Smell and Sociocultural Value-Judgments in Catullus.” CW 109.4 (2016) 465-486.
  “per gestum res est significanda mihi: Ovid and Language in Exile.” CP 104.2 (2009) 162-83.
  “Pliny and the Dolphin: Or, A Story about Storytelling.” Arethusa 42.2 (2009) 161-79.
  “Symbolic Language and Indexical Cries in Lucretius 5.1028-1090.” AJP 129.4 (2008) 529-557.
  “The Scent of Language and Social Synaesthesia at Rome.” CW 101.2 (2008) 159-171.
  “Aeolism: Latin as a Dialect of Greek.” CJ 102.2 (2007) 115-144.

  book chapters
  “The chorus cinaedorum in Apuleius’ Golden Ass” (for T. Gazzarri and J. Weiner, eds., Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity, forthcoming).
  “Sensory Media: Representation, Communication, and Performance in Ancient Literature” (invited for Jerry Toner, ed., A Cultural History of the Senses, Bloomsbury 2014).

• Classical traditions and reception studies
  (esp. science fiction & fantasy, contemporary fiction, film, and games)
  co-edited volumes
  Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Bloomsbury 2019)
   with Brett M. Roger; co-authored introduction (“Displacing Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy”) and own chapter on “Classical Receptions in Helen Oyeyemi”
  Frankenstein and its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction (Bloomsbury 2018); with Jesse Weiner and Brett M. Rogers; co-authored introduction (“The Modern Prometheus Turns 200”) and own chapter on “Cupid and Psyche in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s Apuleian Science Fiction?”
  Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy (Oxford 2017)
  with Brett M. Rogers; co-authored introduction (“Fantasies of Antiquity”) and own chapter on “Ancient Underworlds in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit”)
  Classical Traditions in Science Fiction (Oxford 2015)
  with Brett M. Rogers: co-authored introduction (“The Past is an Undiscovered Country”) and own chapter on “Virgil in Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth”

  articles
  “Virgilian Underworlds in A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book.” CRJ 8.4 (2016) 529-553.
  “Medea in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones.” IJCT 23 (2016) 1-20.
  “Classical Receptions in Science Fiction” (with Brett M. Rogers). CRJ 4.1 (2012) 127-47.

  book chapters
  “Translating Greek and Roman Epic into Film” (for R. Armstrong, ed., Greek and Roman Epic in Translation, forthcoming).
  “Middle-Earth as Underworld: from katabasis to eucatastrophe” (for H. Williams, ed., Tolkien and the Classics, forthcoming).
  “Dante” (for C. Pache, ed., Cambridge Homer Encyclopedia, forthcoming).
  “Psammetichus’ Experiment and Modern Thought about Language” (for V. Zali and J. Priestley, eds., Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond, Brill 2016).
  “Morality and Comics History in Kingdom Come” (for G. Kovacs and T. Marshall, eds., Classics and Comics (Oxford, 2011))

• Translations
  The Wizard’s Manuscript, poetry collection by Pedro Larrea (Valparaíso Ediciones 2017)
  Persephone 2014, semi-autobiography by Gwenaëlle Aubry (excerpts, Arion 25.3, 2018)