Research
Research Interests:
- archaic and classical greek poetry
- classical mythology
- disability studies
- classical reception
- monsters, animals (human & nonhuman)
- posthumanism
- animal studies
- translation theory
- queer theory
- tarot
- Hellenistic astrology
Publications, Reviews, and Research
‘Why does classical reception need disability studies?’
co-authored with Marchella Ward - *Editor's Choice*
Classical Receptions Journal, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 502–530
Read for free online here (open access)
'Hell’s Kitchen: Underworlds in Leonora Carrington’s Down Below and The Hearing Trumpet'
in The Literature of Hell (Essays and Studies), edited by Margaret Kean (pre-order here, from June 2021; publication date, Sept. 2021)
‘Deadly Erotic Tangos and Animal Affinity: Autobiography of Red’
in Anne Carson/Antiquity (ed. Laura Jansen). Bloomsbury.
'Anne Carson's Lyric Temporalities: Desire and Immortality in the Fragments of Sappho and Stesichoros',
forthcoming 2021, A Companion to Greek Lyric (ed. Laura Swift, Blackwell-Wiley)
'Calling Homer's Sirens', (2018), in Making Monsters (eds. Emma Bridges and Djibril Al-Ayad, Future Fire Publishing)
'Spectral Presences and Absences in Anne Carson's Antigonick' (PDF) (Logeion: A Journal of Ancient Theatre 4: 2014, pp. 343-363)
Review of Voice and Voices in Antiquity (2017), BMCR
'Dangerous Fugues: Sirens, Divas, and the Dangerous Voice' (2012), Margin
Current & Ongoing Projects:
Seeds of Future Projects
‘Why does classical reception need disability studies?’
co-authored with Marchella Ward - *Editor's Choice*
Classical Receptions Journal, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 502–530
Read for free online here (open access)
'Hell’s Kitchen: Underworlds in Leonora Carrington’s Down Below and The Hearing Trumpet'
in The Literature of Hell (Essays and Studies), edited by Margaret Kean (pre-order here, from June 2021; publication date, Sept. 2021)
‘Deadly Erotic Tangos and Animal Affinity: Autobiography of Red’
in Anne Carson/Antiquity (ed. Laura Jansen). Bloomsbury.
'Anne Carson's Lyric Temporalities: Desire and Immortality in the Fragments of Sappho and Stesichoros',
forthcoming 2021, A Companion to Greek Lyric (ed. Laura Swift, Blackwell-Wiley)
'Calling Homer's Sirens', (2018), in Making Monsters (eds. Emma Bridges and Djibril Al-Ayad, Future Fire Publishing)
'Spectral Presences and Absences in Anne Carson's Antigonick' (PDF) (Logeion: A Journal of Ancient Theatre 4: 2014, pp. 343-363)
Review of Voice and Voices in Antiquity (2017), BMCR
'Dangerous Fugues: Sirens, Divas, and the Dangerous Voice' (2012), Margin
Current & Ongoing Projects:
- Monstrous Soundscapes: Listening to the Voice of the Monster in Greek Epic, Lyric, and Drama (monograph, full draft under review)
- 'Looking Back at Orpheus: Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy as a Queer Re-reading of Ovid's Orpheus', in progress
- ‘Forging Thetidean Bonds: Hephaistos’ Chosen Family in Iliad 18’ in The Staying Power of Thetis: Allusion, Interaction, and Reception from Homer to the 21st Century, edited by A. Khoo, D. Wright, G. Vos, and M. Paprocki; under review by De Gruyter, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes Series, publication date set for 2021
- 'Singing, Cursing, Blessing: The Sonic Transformation of Aeschylus' Erinyes', forthcoming 2021
Seeds of Future Projects
- 'The Artist Formerly Known as Odysseus': Dancing with Homer in Prince's Gram Slam Ulysses' (early stages of research)
- 'More News from No Man: Musical mythos in the work of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' (early stages of research)