Biography
After obtaining undergraduate and Master’s degrees at Oxford, I taught Classics at an independent school for two years and returned to Oxford to undertake a DPhil in Classical Languages & Literature at Corpus Christi College. I am in the process of completing the doctorate, and I began teaching for Exeter, as a Retained Lecturer, in October 2025.
Research
My doctoral research investigates ancient scholarship on Homer’s Iliad; Greek explanatory (“exegetical”) commentaries from the Roman Imperial period partially survive as notes in the margins of Byzantine manuscripts called “scholia”. My thesis looks at the methods of reading the Iliad that these scholia deploy, and puts them in dialogue with other Greek works of literary criticism from a similar period. My research interests more widely encompass Greek literature, especially Greek epic poetry, and ancient scholarship. I also undertake some papyrological research.
Teaching
At Exeter, I teach the majority of Greek and Latin language classes offered by the college; these complement teaching provided by the Faculty of Classics. I primarily teach undergraduates before their first public exams (Mods or Prelims), or undergraduates taking a Second Classical Language at Greats. I also teach some Greek and Latin Literature tutorial courses for Mods and Greats.
Publications
“Authorial Intention in the Exegetical Scholia to the Iliad“, Mnemosyne (forthcoming 2026).
“Poetry by Numbers: Homeric Stone-Lifting and Aeneid 12.896–902”, Classical Quarterly (forthcoming).
“The Spears of Asteropaeus: P.Oxy. II.221, Col. VI”, ZPE 229 (2024): 58-63.
“Disobedience in the Courtroom: Il. 18.497-508.” Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic 5 (2021): 1-24.