Classics and Ancient History
Elected 1976
The social & intellectual history of late antiquity, & early Christian (patristic) studies, in the Mediterranean world of the third to the seventh century
Latin literature of the Flavian and Trajanic periods; Roman social history, especially spectacle and punishment
Greek and Latin poetry and prose, especially from c.750 BC to AD c.300; interests include: motion, attention, genre, prose-rhythm, poetry-books, papyri, inscriptions, relation of prose and poetry, Greek and Latin