Thesis Title

Dead and Deader: The Treatment of the Corpse in Latin Imperial Epic Poetry

Research Interests

• Roman Imperial literature esp. epic poetry
• Greek epic poetry
• Senecan tragedy
• the novel
• Roman historiography
• aesthetics of violence; poetics of competition
• mythography; myth and culture/geography
• lyricism
• pre/post-mortem epic taunting

“Virgil on the Treatment of the Dead in the Aeneid,” presented at the Classical Association of Canada conference, Winnipeg MB May 2013 (Award: Best Graduate Student Paper).

“A History of Violence: Cultural Assimilation and Extermination in Virgil and Livy,” presented at the UBC Graduate Conference, October 2012.

“Dead and Deader: The Treatment of the Corpse in Latin Imperial Epic Poetry” presented at the UBC Graduate Colloquium, September 2012.

“Visu Miserabile…Auferte Oculos: Decapitation, Vision, and Focalization in Lucan and Statius” presented at the CAPN/CACW joint conference University of Washington, Seattle WA, 2010.

“Creating the Grotesque: Zombification in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Romero’s Day of the Dead” presented at the conference All Roads Lead From Rome: The Classical (non)Tradition in Popular Culture, Rutgers University, Camden New Jersey, 2010. 

“Imperialistic Policy in Britain under Cnaeus Iulius Agricola: Politics in Tacitus’ Narrative” presented at the Sunoikisis Undergraduate Research Symposium in Classics, Davidson, North Carolina, 2007