About

I am a Classics professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, having received my B.A. (in English and Classics) from the University of Tennessee (2002) and my M.A. and Ph.D. (in Classics) from the University of Virginia (2002, 2007). My academic work is broadly on the Latin poetry of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire, and my current interests lie mainly in the literary translation of Greco-Roman literature.

My translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses into iambic pentameter (Penguin Classics, 2022) received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets and was included in The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022. I have also published a verse translation of Horace’s Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020), as well as a monograph entitled Horace between Freedom and Slavery: The First Book of Epistles (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015) and an edited volume, Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra (Penguin, 2024). My translation of Catullus is forthcoming from Penguin in July 2026.

I am currently at work on a translation of Ovid’s erotodidactic poetry (the Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Medicamina Faciei Femineae), for which I received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

Forthcoming July 2026: