Photo by Ruth Crafer, 2019.
In my academic life, I have worked mainly on the history of late republican Rome. I have a long-standing interest in the Roman historian Sallust, who appeals to me because he watched his world fall apart and because he is fascinated by troublemakers — even if not always sympathetic to them. My published research in Roman history focuses especially on Sallust’s Historiae and on Sallust’s representation of Roman rhetoric.
I have also worked in the area of classical reception, where I focus on the poetry of E.E. Cummings. I like the way that Cummings responds to Classical verse: ambitious, provocative, and disobedient.
ACADEMIC BOOKS
Rome after Sulla. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
E.E. Cummings’ Modernism and the Classics: Each Imperishable Stanza. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Classical Presences Series). 2016. Recipient of a CAMWS 2018 First Book Award.
TRADE BOOKS (Literary nonfiction)
The Beauty of Living: E.E. Cummings in the Great War. New York: W.W. Norton. 2020.
ARTICLES
2020. with Linda S. Siegel. ‘E.E. Cummings and dyslexia.’ Annals of Dyslexia 70, 369-78.
2016. ‘Hostile Politics: Sallust and the rhetoric of popular champions in the late republic.’ American Journal of Philology 137, 655-88.
2014. ‘The Turning Tide: the politics of the year 79 b.c.e.’ Transactions of the American Philological Association 144, 415-44.
2014. ‘ “a twilight smelling of Vergil”: E.E. Cummings, Classics, and the Great War.’ Greece & Rome 61, 242-60.
2013. ‘Pretentious Scansion, Fascist Aesthetics, and a Father-complex for Joyce: E.E. Cummings on Sapphics and Ezra Pound.’ Cambridge Classical Journal 59, 178-98.
2013. ‘Sallust’s Historiae and the voice of Sallust’s Lepidus.’ Arethusa 46, 447-70.
2012. ‘Rome and North Korea: Totalitarian Questions.’ Greece & Rome 59, 202-13.
2011. ‘The “devotio” of Sallust’s Cotta.’ American Journal of Philology 132, 397-427.
2006. ‘The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Aesthetics of Anglo-Saxon Art.’ Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 13, 105-17.
EDITED VOLUME, as editor.
Edward Bispham and J. Alison Rosenblitt (eds). Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity: The Collected Papers of Andrew Lintott. Leiden: Brill. 2023.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES
2023. ‘Introduction’ (with Ed Bispham) and ‘Lintott on Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence’, in Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity: The Collected Papers of Andrew Lintott. Leiden: Brill.
2022. ‘Sallust’, in Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag (eds), A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
2019. ‘Sulla’s long shadow… Sallust in Tacitus and Tacitus in Sallust.’ In Alexandra Eckert and Alexander Thein (eds), Sulla Felix: Politics, Public Image, and Reception. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2019. ‘Afterword: Modernism Going Forward.’ In Miranda Hickman and Lynn Kozak (eds), The Classics in Modernist Translation. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
OTHER
‘An E.E. Cummings Christmas’, LitHub, December 21, 2020.
‘E.E. Cummings: A Pagan Modernist’, Great Writers Inspire (audio).
Conversation, with Rosanna Warren, Norton Dialogues (Youtube), October 1, 2020.
‘What precedes and what follows’ (for National Ampersand Day), Fiction Writers Review, September 8, 2020.
‘Bleeding Love’, Air Mail, August 25, 2020.
Interview, Read, Learn, Live podcast (Episode 79), Jon Menaster, August 1, 2020.
Profile of E.E. Cummings at Spank the Carp, November 2017 issue.
‘E.E. Cummings’ “All in green went my love riding”.’ EEC Society blog.
‘Fellows Find: The Goat-footed Paganism of E.E. Cummings.’ Cultural Compass: The Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin) blog.
‘Pagan Poetry: the faun, the satyr, and the chase.’ The Worcester Review 37 (2016), 103-9.
Review of James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer. University Press of Florida, 2014. Hardback. 256pp. $39.95. In Spring: the Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society 21-22 (2015-2016).
