Department of Classics - Princeton University

I grew up in Brooklyn, and, after a brief and unspectacular career as a teenage cellist, ended up studying English and Classics at Columbia. I received my B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 2011, and was proud to be awarded two Classics prizes and departmental honors; my senior thesis (on rivers in Statius’ Thebaid and Silvae) argued that Statius and nature had a complicated relationship. Still in the toddling infancy of my graduate study, I can’t yet claim to have “research interests”; but some of the things I’m keen on are Silver Latin poetry, Hellenistic poetry, periods of decadence, and pastoral.