Subjects
Research Interests
Histories of the book from antiquity to the present; intellectual histories of the Classics; Latin literature of the late Republic and early Empire; classical reception; Latin and Greek epigraphy and paleography; Cicero and his reception
Publications
Talks
Nov 2025 Interpreting the Ancients, Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, University of Pennsylvania, “De Officiis’ Readers”
Nov 2025 University of Pennsylvania, Classics Department, “Books as Friends”
Oct 2025 Middlebury College, Classics Department, “Books as Friends”
Oct 2025 Dartmouth College, Classics Department, “Books as Friends”
Oct 2025 University of Vermont, Classics Department, “Books as Friends”
Apr 2025 Beyond the Codex Workshop, Trinity College, Cambridge University, “Sulpicia’s Ashes”
Sep 2023 More Classical Constructions: A Conference to Celebrate Peta Fowler, Oxford University, “Books as Friends”
Jun 2023 Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, Workshop on Cicero, De Inventione
Apr 2022 Renaissance Society of America (Classical Traditions), “Cicero Graecolatinus”
Jan 2022 Society for Classical Studies (Society for Early Modern Classical Reception), “Auctor, Autor, Author: Arguing from Authority in the Classical Tradition”
Apr 2021 Renaissance Society of America, “Auctor/Autor/Author”
Apr 2021 Greek and Roman Literatures Seminar, Institute for Classical Studies, “Books as Friends”
Jan 2021 Society for Classical Studies (American Society for Greek and Latin Epigraphy), “Sulpicia’s Ashes: Literacy and Gender in the Roman World”
Dec 2020 Spatial Turn in the Roman World, University of Durham, “Vade, liber: Textual Mobility and the Poetics of Space in Roman Book Culture”
Nov 2020 Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, “Auctor/Autor/Author”
Mar 2020 Boston Athenaeum, “Publishing before Publishing”
Mar 2020 Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, “Sententiae Antiquae: Early Modern Commonplace and the Classical Tradition”
Feb 2020 Seminar in History of the Book, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University, “Vade, liber: Textual Mobility and the History of Books”
Feb 2020 Warburg Institute, London, “Cicero’s Topics and the Social Life of Books”
Jan 2020 Book and Print Initiative, University of London, “Vade, liber: Textual Mobility and the History of Books”
Dec 2019 Framing Mobilities through the Humanities, University of Padova, “Vade, liber: Mobility Studies and the History of Books”
Nov 2019 Warburg Institute, London, “Cicero’s Library: The Roman Book and the Making of the Classics”
Nov 2019 Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies, Ohio State University, “Pliny and His Sources”
Jan 2019 Society for Classical Studies, “Wrapping up the Book: Membrana in Horace Satires 2.3.2 and Ars Poetica 389”
Mar 2018 Colloquium on Material Texts, Columbia University, “Books in Exile”
Feb 2018 Committee for the Study of Books and Media, Princeton University, “Containing the Ancient Book”
Nov 2017 Comparative Literature Colloquium, Harvard University, “Alexandria in the Googleplex”
Oct 2017 Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age, Boston University, “Libraries and the Future of the Past”
May 2017 Size Matters Conference, Harvard University, “Alphabet as Technology of Compression”
Apr 2016 Classics Department Colloquium, Columbia University, “Writing in the Mind: Metaphors and Media in the Ancient Ars Memoriae”
Jan 2016 Society for Classical Studies (American Academy in Rome), “An finitus sit mundus et an unus: Pliny’s Lists of Nature”
Jan 2016 Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, “In guria rocamus: Identifying the Herculanean Curia”
Dec 2015 Program in the History of the Book, Yale University, “Hitting up Herculaneum”
Mar 2015 Williams College, “A Stoic in the Library: Cicero and the Villa Library of Lucullus”