果冻影院

Honorary Research Fellow

Originally from London, I completed my undergraduate (2009) and Master's (2010) degrees in Classics at Oxford. I then spent two years as an English teacher in London at Pimlico Academy, as part of the Teach First programme. I returned to Oxford in 2012 to embark on a doctorate which I completed in 2015. I then spent a year as a Teaching Associate in Greek Literature at Cambridge before coming to 果冻影院 in 2016.

My main research interests focus on the intersection between Greek literature and philosophy. My first book,听Presocratic Poetics听(CUP), applies literary-critical approaches to the Presocratic philosophers, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles who, unlike most other philosophers, wrote in verse. It aims to bring these authors further into the fold of literary studies and assess their significance for our understanding of the development of Greek poetics up until Plato.听

I have further academic interests in ancient didactic poetry, in the religious movement known as 鈥極rphism鈥� and its literary manifestations, and in the history of Classical scholarship, in particular in its relationship to Scottish Romanticism.

Publications

Books

• Poetry and听Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers,听Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,听2021.

Articles / Book Chapters

• 鈥�Rationality and Presocratic Cosmology in Sophocles鈥� Antigone鈥�. Journal of Hellenic Studies 142 (2022), pp.听30-48.

• 鈥楬esiod, the Presocratic Poets, Aristeas, Epimenides and the Gold Tablets: Genre and Narrative鈥� pp. 81-103 in H. Koning and L. Iribarren (eds.) Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

• 鈥�A Heraclitean Allusion to the Odyssey鈥�. Classical Quarterly (accepted, March 2020).

• 鈥楨mpedocles, Personal Identity, and the Narrative of the Fallen Daim艒n'. Phoenix 74 (2000), pp. 111-130.

• 鈥楬esiod in Liddell & Scott鈥�, pp. 105-123 in Liddell and Scott: The Worlds of a Lexicon edited by C. Stray, M. Clarke and J. Katz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

• 鈥�Georgica and Orphica: The Georgics in the Context of Orphic Poetry and Religion鈥�, pp.67-77 in, Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics edited by N.Freer and B. Xinyue. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

• 鈥楶armenides and early Greek Allegory鈥� Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 79:31-59. 2017.

• 鈥楾he Contents of Empedocles鈥� Poem: A New Argument for the Single-Poem Hypothesis鈥� Zeitschrift f眉r Papyrologie und Epigraphik 200: 25-32. 2016.

• 鈥楲anguage and Learning with the Presocratics: Xenophanes and Parmenides as Educators and Linguists鈥�, pp.25-48 in, The History of Linguistics in the Context of Education (= Beitraege zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 26.1) edited by C. de Jonge and G.J. Rutten. M眉nster: Nodus Publikationen. 2016