Graduate Student, Classics
Thesis Title: The choral poetics of Augustan poetry
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Prof. Richard Tarrant
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About
I am currently a fifth year PhD student in Classical Philology in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. After receiving my undergraduate degree in Classics from University College, Oxford in 2006, I arrived at Harvard on a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship first as a Special Student, then as a PhD candidate.
My dissertation focuses on the poetics of choral dancing in Augustan poetry. I argue that embedded scenes of choral dancing in Augustan poetry (especially Virgil, Horace and Propertius) act as places where the ritual structures and poetic texts of the Greek past are received, negotiated and transformed.
Recent conference presentations include papers on imagery of flying in Greek tragedy, choral mimesis in Pindar's second Partheneion, and visualizations of rape in Greek sanctuaries. Other research interests include Ovid and Aristophanes.
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