I am currently working on a literary commentary on the Catalepton and Priapea of the Appendix Vergiliana that concerns itself with the construction of reader and author in relation to the collection alongside the more philological aspects of the poems. This project has been complemented by a volume I have co-edited with Laurel Fulkerson on the ideas of authorship and readership in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ouidiana (OUP 2020).
My first monograph, Propertius' Cynthia. The Book as Beloved (OUP 2024), considers Propertius as his own first reader and explores the ways in which he engages with and recasts his own poetic material – as well as that of his peers and predecessors – in order to articulate the relationship that he constructs for himself with his beloved and with his poetry. Alongside this, I have published several papers on elegy and co-edited a volume on Propertius and Ovid with Jennifer Ingleheart (OUP 2024) in honour of Stephen Heyworth.
I have also worked on several medieval texts. The thirteenth-century Codex Buranus – on which I have edited a tome with Henry Hope (Boydell 2020) – is an on-going source of fascination, and my next major medieval focus is an annotated edition of Peter Abelard's Hymns. Other significant projects in medieval Latin include an annotated text and translation of parts of Sicco Polenton's quattrocento history of Latin literature (Bloomsbury 2025 w. Rino Modonutti) and an edited volume of essays on Piccolomini, later Pius II (w. Lachlan Hughes).
More broadly, I am interested in the literature of the first century BC (esp. the poets and Vitruvius); the Latin literature of the Middle Ages; the place of the author and the reader in relation to the text; and in textual criticism, palaeography, and the history of the book.
