Professor of Classics (Faculty Member, Program in Theory and Criticism; Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities)
Ph.D. Cambridge University 1985; B.A. Trinity College Dublin 1979
Sample Publications
Books (sole author)
Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry Roman Literature and its Contexts (Cambridge University Press 1998)
The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-conscious Muse Cambridge Classical Studies (Cambridge University Press 1987)
Book series (co-editor)
Roman Literature and its Contexts, edd. Denis Feeney and Stephen Hinds (Cambridge University Press 1993- )
Recent Articles
ÔMartialÕs Ovid/OvidÕs MartialÕ Journal of Roman Studies, forthcoming 2007
ÔOvid among the Conspiracy TheoristsÕ in S..J. Heyworth, ed., Classical Constructions: Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean Oxford U.P. forthcoming 2007
ÔVenus, Varro and the vates: Toward the Limits of Etymologizing InterpretationÕ Dictynna 3(2006), 173-208
ÔDislocations of Ovidian TimeÕ in J.P. Schwindt, ed., La reprŽsentation du temps dans la poŽsie augustŽenne / Zur Poetik der Zeit in augusteischer Dichtung Winter (Heidelberg) 2005, 203-30
ÔDefamiliarizing Latin Literature, from Petrarch to Pulp FictionÕ in L. Edmunds, ed., New Directions in the Study of Latin Literature. Transactions of the American Philological Association 135(2005), 49-81
ÔPetrarch, Cicero, Virgil: Virtual Community in Familiares 24,4Õ in G.W. Most and S. Spence, edd., Re-Presenting Virgil: Special Issue in Honor of Michael C. J. Putnam. Materiali e Discussioni 52(2004), 157-75
Selected Older Articles
‘Ovid’; ‘Elegiac Poetry, Latin’; ‘Books, Poetic’: articles for Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition (Oxford University Press 1996)
‘arma in Ovid's Fasti,’ Arethusa 25(1992) 81-153
‘The Poetess and the Reader: Further Steps towards Sulpicia,’ Hermathena 143(1987) 29-46
*‘Generalising about Ovid,’ in A.J. Boyle, ed., The Imperial Muse Aureal 1988 [ = Ramus 16(1987) 4-31]
*‘Booking the Return Trip: Ovid and Tristia 1,’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society n.s. 31(1985) 13-32
*both reprinted in P. E. Knox, ed., Oxford Readings in Ovid (Oxford, 2006)