Articles
1977. “A Note on Catullus, c. 71.4,” Philologus 121: 308-12.
1978. “Servius and idonei auctores,”American Journal of Philology 99: 181-209.
1980. “The Grammarian's Authority,” Classical Philology 75: 216-41.
1983. “The Salaries of Libanius,” Chiron 13: 37-59.
1983. “Vie et miracles de Sainte Thècle II.38: The Son(s) of Alypius,” Analecta Bollandiana 101: 301-3.
1983. “P. Panop. 14.25,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 51: 132-34.
1983. “The Date of FD III,1.206,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 51: 131-32.
1983. “The ‘Wandering Poet’ and the Governor,” Phoenix 37: 152-58.
1983. “Tommaso Schifaldo's Libellus de indagationibus grammaticis,” Humanistica Lovaniensia 32: 107-56 (with Susan Noakes).
1984. “A Reconsideration of ‘Gratian's School-Law,’” Hermes 112: 100-114.
1984. “A Schoolboy's Burlesque from Cyrene?” Mnemosyne 37: 457-58.
1986. “Humanitas and Roman Education,” Storia della Storiagrafia 9: 5-15.
1986. “Islands in the Stream: The Grammarians of Late Antiquity,” Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Linguistics 13: 323-42 (= The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period, Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series 3: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, vol. 46, ed. Daniel J. Taylor (Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 1987), pp. 149-68).
1993. “La funzione del ‘grammaticus,’” in Storia di Roma, vol. 6 (Turin: Einaudi), pp. 75-86.
1997. “Geschichte der Philologie im Rom,” in Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie, ed. F. Graf (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner), pp. 3-16 (= “Storia della filologia a Roma,” in Introduzione alla filoliga Latina [Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2003], pp. 19-35).
1997. “The Shame of the Romans,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 127: 1-19 (Presidential Address of the APA).
1997. “Fruitful Disputes: Controversy and Its Consequences in the (More or Less) Recent History of Classical Studies”: introduction to the proceedings of a Presidential Panel organized for the meetings of the American Philological Association in 1996 and published in Transactions of the American Philological Association 127: 345-47, with papers by G.W. Most, G. W. Bowersock, C. A. Stray, and N. B. Kampen following.
2002. “The Taxonomy of Patience, or When is Patientia not a Virtue?,” Classical Philology 97. 131-42.
2002. “Invidia and the End of Georgics 1,” Phoenix 56: 275-95.
2009. “Some Passionate Performances in Late Republican Rome,” in A Companion to Ancient Political Thought, ed. R. Balot (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 308-20.
Reviews
1983. Review of L. Holtz, Donat et la tradition de l'enseignement grammatical, in Speculum 58: 478-84.
1985. Review of R. L. Wilken, The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, in The Journal of Religion 65: 449.
1985. Review of V. Law, The Insular Latin Grammarians, in Historiographia Linguistica 12: 433-41.
2009. Review of Fay Glinister et al., edd., Verrius, Festus, & Paul. Lexicography, Scholarship, and Society: Classical Review 59.1 (2009): 169-71.