I grew up in Toronto, Ontario, before earning a joint-Honours bachelor’s degree in Classics and Philosophy at McGill University in 2020, where I wrote my Honour’s thesis on the relationship between freedom (eleutheria) and the conception of justice as articulated in Plato’s Republic. I then completed a Masters in Classics at the University of British Columbia in 2022. Pursuing a developing interest in the intersections between philosophy and various other ancient Greek literary genres, and intellectual history more broadly, my Master’s thesis examined Plato’s discussions of Greek tragedy across several dialogues through the modern theoretical lens of narratology, focusing on the mediating and ethical role of the chorus between tragic and philosophical dialogue. During my Master’s degree I also developed an interest in archaeology and the social logic of space, in particular the ways in which architecture and material culture both shape and are shaped by human behaviour.

I joined the Princeton Classics department in the fall of 2022, specifically the Classical Philosophy program, where my research interests have continued to expand (despite remaining firmly rooted in a broader interest in reconstructing and understanding intellectual history), leading me to pursue projects ranging from reception studies, especially Friedrich Nietzsche’s reception of ancient Greek literature and philosophy, and the boundary between ‘philology’ and ‘philosophy’ in the so-called German enlightenment; Aristotle’s reconstruction of and response to Eleatic philosophy; Greek palaeography; Neoplatonism in the Byzantine period; the philosophy of Empedocles; and the works of the 5th century orator/sophist Antiphon. In general, I am deeply interested in the impact of the so-called 5th century Greek ‘enlightenment’ and the sophistic movement on ancient Greek literature and thought, and on the question of the extent to which and in what way philosophia might constitute a genuine and productive ‘way of life’ in both the ancient and modern context. I am currently developing a thesis on the concept of ‘advantage’, gain, and self-interest in various ancient Greek literary genres, with a focus on how these influenced ideas about morality, epistemology, and political cohesion in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE.

Beyond my personal research interests, I am also invested in both the theory and practice of pedagogy, and have held various assistant teaching positions at the University of British Columbia on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, introductory Greek philosophy, and introductory Latin. Here at Princeton, I have also been an assistant instructor for Dr. Melissa Haynes’ course entitled “Magic and Witchcraft in the Ancient World”.

If you are interested in any of the above topics, please feel free to send me an e-mail!