Doctoral Student

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department of Classics

University of Florida


Education:

  1. ‣  University of Florida    PhD Classical Studies    2011    in progress 

  2. ‣  University of Florida    MA Latin                         2007

  3. ‣  University of Florida    BA Classical Studies      2005    summa cum laude


MA thesis:

   Title: “Sallust’s Bellum Iugurthinum: Reading Jugurtha as the Other”

   Director: Professor Lewis Sussman


Scholarly Conferences and Papers:

  1. ‣  2008. “Sallust, Jugurtha, and the Metus Hostilis.”   CAMWS. Tucson, AZ

  2. ‣  2006. “Painting the Pastoral Picture: Theocritus and the Ekphrastic Tradition.”

  3.   CAMWS Southern Section. Memphis, TN


Teaching Experience:

  1. ‣  Summer 2008        Accelerated Latin 2

  2. ‣  Spring 2008           Beginning Latin 3        Ancient World in Film (TA)

  3. ‣  Fall 2007                Beginning Latin 2        Ancient Cities: Greek (TA)

  4. ‣  Summer 2007        Beginning Latin 3

  5. ‣  Spring 2007            Beginning Latin 3        Greek Identity and the E.U. (TA)

  6. ‣  Fall 2006                Beginning Latin 3        Ancient Greek 2 (TA)

  7. ‣  Summer 2006                                            Satire: Juvenal & Horace (TA)

  8. ‣  Spring 2006           Beginning Latin 1        Roman History (TA)

  9. ‣  Fall 2005                Beginning Latin 1        Greek & Roman Epic (TA)

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