I studied Classics as an undergraduate at Cambridge and as a Master’s student at Oxford. I then studied Law and worked at Phaidon Press in London before returning to Cambridge to start my PhD in 2018. Between January and June 2020, I was a visiting student at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, where my research was supervised by Professor Filippomaria Pontani. My time in Venice was generously funded by the AHRC, the Faculty of Classics and Trinity College, Cambridge.
My PhD thesis is a study of the concept of allegory in the ancient world, a subject which spans ancient philosophy, poetry, literary criticism and mythography and which forms part of the larger story of the reception of Greek texts and ideas by Roman and Christian culture in antiquity.
Outside my doctoral research, I have an ongoing interest in developing new models for describing the channels through which philosophical and literary texts circulated within the ancient world. Other research interests include the history of reading and scholarship in antiquity; the concept of “philosophy” and its relationship to poetry and myth in ancient Greek thought; signs and gestures in Greco-Roman culture; folklore and myth; genealogy; etymology; Plato; and Homeric and Hesiodic poetry.
When not researching Classics, I can be found swimming, listening to Mozart or reading anything written by Carlo Ginzburg, Muriel Spark and Jorge Luis Borges.
