Director of Undergraduate Studies, Classics (Spring 2012)

Co-curator (with Annetta Alexandridis) of the Cornell Cast Collection

• Classical Art History
• Word and image
• Roman painting
• The sacred image
• Epiphany
• Graeco-Roman gems / glyptics

Books and Edited Volumes:

• Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion. Cambridge. 2011.
• The Art of Art History in Graeco-Roman Antiquity" special edition of Arethusa, co-edited with M. Squire (Vol. 43.2, Spring 2010).
• Framing the Visual in Greek and Roman Art, co-edited with M. Squire, under consideration by Cambridge University Press (in progress). 

• "Viewing, Desiring, Believing: Confronting the Divine in a Pompeian House", Art History, vol. 25 no. 1 (Feb., 2002), 87-112.
• "Evasive Epiphany in Ekphrastic Epigram," Ramus 31, volu.1 (2002), 33-50.
• "Shattered Visages: Speaking Statues from the Ancient World", Apollo (July, 2003), 9-14. 
• "Making an Impression: Replication and the Ontology of the Graeco-Roman Seal Stone", Art History, special edition on "Replication in Ancient Art", 29.2 (April, 2006), 233-57. 
• "Honour Takes Wing: Unstable Images and Anxious Orators in the Greek Tradition", in Z. Newby and R. Leader-Newby (eds.), Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World, Cambridge University Press (2006), 247-71.
• "Burning Butterflies: Seals, Symbols and the Soul in Antiquity", in L. Gilmour (ed.), Pagans and Christians - from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, British Archaeological Reports series, Archaeopress (2007), 89-99. 
• "Virtual Visions: Phantasia and the Perception of the Divine in Philostratus" Life of Apollonius of Tyana", in E. L. Bowie and J. Elsner (eds.), Philostratus, Cambridge University Press (2009), 131-54. 
• "Where The Wild Things Are: Locating the Marvellous in Augustan Wall-Painting", for P. Hardie (ed.), Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture, Oxford University Press (2009), 41-74. 
• "Viewing the Past: Cinematic Paideia in the Caverns of Macedonia," in Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander. Film, History and Cultural Studies, edited by P. Cartledge and F. Rose Greenland, Cambridge University Press (2010), 285-304. 
• "Art History in the Temple," Arethusa, vol. 43.2 (Spring 2010), 197-213. 
• "Framing the Dead on Roman Sarcophagi," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 61/62, Spring/Autumn 2012: 213-27.
• "Likeness and Likelihood in Classical Greek Art," in V. Wohl (ed.) EIKOS. Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). 
• "Agamemnon's Grief: on the Limits of Expression in Roman Rhetoric and Painting," in J. Elsner and M. Meyer (eds.), Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Spring 2013 Office Hours:
TR 10:00-11:00

Spring 2013
Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Culture (CLASS 3732/ARTH 3732)
Materiality in Ancient Art (CLASS 4740/CLASS 7740/ARTH 4740/ARTH 6740)

Fall 2012
Introduction to Art History: The Classical World (CLASS 2700/ARTH 2200/ARKEO 2700)
Traveling Seminar (CLASS 7711/ARTH 6711)

Spring 2012
Roman Wall Painting (CLASS 2710/ARTH 2710)
Image Love, Image Hate (CLASS 4738/ARTH 4738/VISST 4738)

Fall 2011
On leave

Spring 2011
The Aesthetics of the Sacred in Ancient Greece (CLASS/RELST 4736, ARTH 4736)
Death in the Roman Empire (CLASS/ARTH/RELST 3724) (with Annetta Alexandridis)

Fall 2010
Image and Text in the Greek Roman Empire (CLASS 4745/7745) (with Jeffrey Rusten)