Senior Lecturer Academic History Ph.D. 2005 University of California, Santa Barbara (Classics) M.A. 2000 Villanova University (Classics) M.A. 1997 West Chester University (Philosophy) M.A. 1995 Millersville University (German) B.A. 1992 West Chester University (Philosophy) Teaching Experience (post-Ph.D.) 2009-2010: Loyola University Chicago2006-2009: Duke University2005-2006: University of California, Santa Barbara Dissertation Pratinas: a Philological and Cultural Commentary (Professor Robert Renehan, Chair) Publications “The Mind of a Bitch: Pandora's Motive and Intent in the Erga”, Hermes 135.3 (2007): 247-262 (co-translated with R. Morstein-Marx) “Methods, Models, and Historiography” by M. Jehne in A Companion to the Roman Republic, R. Morstein-Marx and N. Rosenstein, ed., Blackwell (2006)(co-authored with A. N. Athanassakis) Orphic Hymns: Translation and Notes (second edition), JHUP (forthcoming)Review of F. Budelmann, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (Cambridge, 2009), CB (in progress)Review of J. Rudhardt, Opera inedita (Paris, 2008), CR (in progress)A Commentary on Pratinas (monograph, in progress)“The Peripatetic Theory on the Dorian Origin of Athenian Tragedy” (article, in progress) Research Research Areas: Classical Culture Classical Languages and Literatures Research Interests: Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry, Poetics and Performance, Ancient Greek Music and Meter, Mythology and Religion, Orphism. Courses Taught Courses Taught: CLAS 1000 CLAS 1020 GREK 4080/6080 GREK 4200/6200 CLAS 4300/6300 CLAS 4330/6330