I am currently editing A Cultural History of Death: Antiquity a multi-volume series (Bloomsbury, 2016) that assembles leading scholars to examine themes of dying, disposal, and commemoration in multiple volumes from Antiquity to the Present. In Death: Antiquity And Its Legacy I.B.Tauris/ Oxford University Press Ancients and Moderns series (2012), I explore how ancient death rituals inform and engage modern funerary and burial practices through select themes from the Medieval period and the Renaissance to the Present: embalming and cremation, Neoclassical and Victorian monuments, the topography of death (actual and virtual cemeteries), commemoration (epitaphs to tattoos), on-going social relationships with the dead at the site of death and/or burial and in the home, and Dark Tourism. This book expands upon my Reading Death in Ancient Rome (Columbus, 2008) in which I examine death ritual as a cultural and literary intertext of epitaphs, drama, and epic to analyze authorial agendas that are often at odds with actual rituals.