Texts & transmission
Critical editions, translations, source studies, and the complicated journeys by which ancient texts survive.
Research
The ancient world,
in all its difficult detail.
Research on Latin literature, Greek and Roman comedy, Cicero, Renaissance humanism, Neo-Latin, and the long afterlives of classical texts.
Comedy & language
Plautus, Roman humor, verbal play, literary form, and what language reveals about character and culture.
Reception & reinvention
How ancient works were recovered, forged, translated, transformed, and put to new uses from the Renaissance onward.
Featured research archive
Cicero’s lost Consolation—and the Renaissance forgery that brought it back.
Digital archive
Cicero’s Consolatio: The Secret Decoder Ring
A source-by-source apparatus, historical investigation, bibliography, translations, and literary lagniappe.
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Book & edition
How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation
The edited translation and introduction that grew out of the Consolatio research project.
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Research story
Jurassic Marc: Adventures in Decoding Cicero’s Consolation
How the investigation began and what the forged text reveals about Renaissance scholarship.
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Publications & record
Articles, reviews, lectures, and the full scholarly record.
Bibliography
Articles, Chapters, and Notes
Peer-reviewed scholarship on Latin literature, comedy, humanism, intellectual history, and classical reception.
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Reviews
Book Reviews
Reviews of scholarship in classics, comedy, intellectual history, and the classical tradition.
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Lectures
Public Presentations
More than one hundred invited lectures and conference papers delivered internationally.
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Curriculum vitae
Academic CV
Appointments, publications, teaching, service, awards, and professional activity.
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Books & editions
Comedy, Neo-Latin, textual scholarship, and reception.
Monograph
Funny Words in Plautine Comedy
Plautine language, verbal humor, psychology, characterization, and irony.
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Critical edition
Aulularia and Other Inversions of Plautus
Joannes Burmeister’s Neo-Latin transformations of Plautus into biblical comedy.
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Reference work
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy
A comprehensive international guide to ancient comedy and its reception.
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Neo-Latin
Quasi Labor Intus
Anagrams, wordplay, literary puzzles, and the exuberant ingenuity of early modern Latin.
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Edition & translation
The Pig War (Pugna Porcorum)
The first modern critical edition and translation of a Latin poem written entirely with words beginning in P.
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