A BRIEF BIO

I received my B.A. (1992) in Classical Studies from Duke and my M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. (2000) in Classical Studies from Columbia . I am a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and of Villa I Tatti in Florence. From 2000 to 2005 I taught at the University of Pennsylvania. I came to UCLA in the fall of 2005.

My research and teaching interests are in Latin literature, from antiquity to the Renaisssance (and beyond), and in the history of the book (and of other textual materials).

My first book, The Hand of Cicero (Routledge 2002), sought in the brutal murder and dismemberment of Rome's most famous orator a key to the secrets of his success, driven as much by his mastery of Roman written culture as it was by his talent as a speaker.

My second book is an edition and translation of the Latin Letters of Renaissance humanist Angelo Poliziano for the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard 2006).

I have just finished a third book, The Matter of the Page, which traces a history of the page, both as material and as figure, from Orpheus through the medieval writer Dhuoda.

I currently am working on a second volume of Poliziano's Letters.