Having completed an A.B. at Harvard last spring, I am now a first-year Ph.D. student in the Literature & Philology track. My interests lie mainly in long-form narrative literature, especially epic and historiography and primarily in the Imperial period. My senior thesis focused on Nonnus’s Dionysiaca, partly illuminating how two obscure Imperial poets (Nestor and Pisander of Laranda) informed Nonnus’s organization of his mythological material, and partly analyzing this mythological structure in connection with the political message of the poem. Other interests include ancient scholarship and its startling differences with modern critical frameworks, as well as the pedagogy of teaching Latin/Greek reading fluency. I also am deeply involved with Certamen, the Latin quiz bowl-style game for high schoolers, and generally interested in how Classics can convey to high school and incoming college students a fuller picture of what the discipline entails. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any interests in philological analysis, late antiquity, Certamen, or anything else about the application process!