Who We Are

I grew up in Yorkshire and read Classics at Durham University, before moving to Oxford to research a doctorate on the late-antique reception and transmission of the lost works of the Roman polymath Varro.

Following my doctorate I taught ancient history at St Benet’s Hall in the University of Oxford, before joining the ERC-funded ‘Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators’ project at the University of Glasgow in 2015. From 2017 lectured on a part-time basis in Classics at Glasgow and oversaw postgraduate researcher development training across the university.

In 2020, I moved to the Republic of Ireland to take up a lectureship in Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and in 2021, was appointed Research Fellow with the ERC-funded ‘Fragments of the Republican Roman Antiquarians’ project at University College London. In 2024, I joined the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University as Lecturer in Classics.

I am interested in the literature and intellectual history of the Roman Republic and Empire, particularly the scholarship of Republican and early Imperial Rome, and Ancient science and mathematics. I am also fascinated by fragmentary literature, ancient pedagogy, the history of the book, and the history of science and scholarship.

I was an undergraduate in Classics at New College, Oxford. I studied for an MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse) before returning to Oxford to teach Latin and Greek in the Faculty of Classics and at Magdalen College. My doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Writing Practical Mathematics in Greek and Roman Antiquity’, reflects interests in the classical languages themselves, less-explored corners of ancient literature, and ancient scientific and technical writing. In January 2025 I joined the project ‘The Agrimensores and Roman Mathematics’ at Newcastle University.

Outside academia, I enjoy playing music and refereeing non-league football.