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Papers and Projects:

A Poet From Egypt? A Reassessment of the Evidence for Claudian's Eastern Origin

The Particle "ara" Introducing Direct Speech in Herodotus

Letters and Letter Writers in Late Antiquity

The Problematic Ending of Claudian's Carmina Minora 9

Saturnalian Validity: Diderot's Menippean Satire

Nepos' Life of Hannibal: A Student Edition and Commentary

Suda-On-Line:
I have completed numerous entries related to Late Antiquity and assumed editing duties in December of 2003. [visit suda-on-line]

Annotated Bibliography of Claudian studies

Translation of Hermann Sudermann's five-act play, Die Lobgesänge des Claudian (1914)

Consolidated Timeline for Classical Studies



Completed Projects

PUBLICATIONS:
   
   
Forthcoming “A Poet From Egypt?: A Reassessment of the Evidence for Claudian’s Eastern Origin” (Philologus)
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  "Ara Introducing Speeches in Herodotus" (Mnemosyne).
   
2005 "An Allusion to Ovid in Claudian's Carmina Minora 22.56", Classical Philology 100.3 (July 2005): 277–80.
   
2000

"A History of Rome: from Rome's Origins to Justinian and Beyond," a sixteen chapter template for customizable secondary education textbooks, Goosewing.com.

"Comparison of the 1920s and 1930s with the 1990s," Goosewing.com.

 
ENTRIES IN REFERENCE WORKS:
   
2006 “Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus”, “Dionysius Exiguus”, “St. Germanus”, “John Cassian”, and “St. Remigius” in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Bjork, R., ed. (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
   
  “Claudius Claudianus” in Biographical Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, Keyser, P. and Georgia Irby-Massie, edd. (forthcoming, Routledge Press).
   
2003-2004 Translation and commentary: Claudian, Cyrus Panopolites, Exammon, Honorius, Manaim, Milestone, Milion, Modion, Oreion, Rufinus, Theodosius I, Theodosius II entries for Suda On-Line Project.
   

REVIEWS:
   
2006 Mahoney, Anne, Morice's Stories in Attic Greek (Focus Publishing, 2005) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2006.04.26).
 
2005 Ehlers, Widu-Wolfgang, et al. (edd.) Aetas Claudianea. Eine Tagung an der Freien Universitat Berlin vom 28. bis 30. Juni 2002 in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2005.03.01)
   
2004

Powell, Barry B., Homer. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR 2004.04.20).


REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: (Click title for abstract)
 
2006 Literary Criticism in Claudian’s Carmina Minora,137th Annual American Philological Association Meeting, Montreal.
   
2005 "Vulgar Invective in the Epigrams of Ausonius and Claudian," 40th
International Conference on Medieval Studies
, Kalamazoo.
   
  "Epistolarity in Claudian's Carmina Minora," 136th Annual American
Philological Association Meeting
, Boston.
   
2004 "Narrative Structure and Poetic Voice in Claudian's Epistles," 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies, Brown University.
   
  "Elucidating Claudian in Alain de Lille's Anticlaudianus," Vagantes 2004 Conference, Cornell University.
   
2003 "Grappling with Antiquity's End: Nostalgia and Reality in Rutilius Namatianus's De Reditu Suo," 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut.
   
2001

"Deciphering the New Music and the Development of Greek Drama," Picking up the Pieces Conference, Brown University.