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I joined the UCLA Classics department in 2013, having taught previously at Oxford, Reading and Cambridge Universities in the UK, and having studied at Trinity College Dublin, where I received my BA, and at Oxford, where I received my DPhil. My interests range widely over Latin literature, but are motivated by quite specific critical concerns – above all, with the methods, application and theoretical underpinnings of Cultural Poetics. Much of my recent research has focused on questions of authorship, and especially on how the role and identity of ancient authors may be complicated, extended and fashioned by the editors who transmit their works. My first book, Ovid’s Revisions: The Editor as Author (published November 2013), explores the particular permutations of this question that arise when an author (Ovid) is also the self-proclaimed editor of his own texts, and exploits this dual identity to circulate meaning both within individual works and across his entire oeuvre. I am currently exploring the more traditional version of this question by considering its application to the editorial choices and interventions made by the editors of Cicero’s letter collections in a number of article-length studies and in a journal special issue on the subject, which I am also co-editing. My future research plans include a monograph on the uses and abuses of the work and name of Stephen Greenblatt for the Classics in Theory series for OUP.