Staff Profiles

I grew up in Yorkshire and read Classics at Durham University. I was subsequently awarded an AHRC scholarship to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Oxford. My DPhil research, supervised by Prof. Tobias Reinhardt, focused on the late-antique reception and transmission of the lost works of the Roman polymath Varro. Having taught ancient history for St Benet’s Hall in the University of Oxford since 2008, I was appointed a College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Ancient History in 2014. In 2015, I joined the ERC-funded 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' project at the University of Glasgow, and from 2017 lectured on a part-time basis in Classics and oversaw doctoral training across the university. In 2020, I moved to the Republic of Ireland to take up a lectureship in Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and in 2021, was appointed Research Fellow with the ERC-funded ‘Fragments of the Republican Roman Antiquarians’ project at University College London. In 2024, I joined the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University as Lecturer in Classics.

Research

I specialise in the literature and intellectual history of the Roman Republic and Empire, particularly the scholarship of Republican and early Imperial Rome, and in Roman science and mathematics. I have allied interests in fragmentary literature, ancient historiography, pedagogy, the history of the book, and the history of scholarship. I am currently working on an edition of Suetonius, On Insults and on the mathematical texts transmitted with the corpus of Roman land-surveying treatises, including the collection of problems ascribed to Epaphroditus and Vitruvius Rufus.

Teaching

2024/25:

CAC1014: Tragedy, Comedy, History: The World of Greek Literature

CAL1011: Intermediate Latin Language and Literature 1

CAG1001: Beginners' Greek in Action Part 1

CAC2069/3069: Ancient biography

CAC3000: Dissertations

Selection of Recent Publications

‘New Light on the History of the Codex Arcerianus and the Fate of Varro’s De geometria and De arithmetica’, Revue d’Histoire des Textes 19 (2024): 187–232.

‘The Catalogus geometrarum from the Corpus Agrimensorum. Part I: Text, Translator, and the Aratean Tradition’, Mnemosyne 76 (2022): 664–694. (Link here)

‘The Catalogus geometrarum from the Corpus Agrimensorum. Part II: The Biography of Euclid the Mathematician’, Mnemosyne 76 (2022): 837–856. (Link here)

‘Saturae Menippeae and Varro Menippeus’, Paideia 77 (2022): 175–201. (Link here)

‘Suetonius the Bibliographer’, in S. Adams (ed.), Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras: Greek, Latin, and Jewish (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019): 119–146.

with C. Gray, A. Balbo, and C. Steel (eds), Reading Republican Oratory: Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

‘Varro, Atticus, and Annales’, in V. Arena and F. Mac Góráin (eds), Varronian Moments. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 60.2 (London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2017): 61–75. (Link here)

‘“Bi-Marcus?” The two Varrones of Augustine and Nonius Marcellus’, Res publica litterarum 39 (2016): 180–203.