Professor of Classics; Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.  Epic Poetry; Tragic Theatre; Wordplay in Literature; Theory of Translation.

Books: Lucan: An Introduction; Seneca: Three Tragedies; Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets; Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction; Statius' Thebaid: A Reconsideration; The Odyssey Re-formed; articles on Greek music, Homeric narrative, ancient rhetoric, and Roman imperial poetry.