Photograph of the cover of a book. Largely black with the title (Cavafy as World Literature) and the names of the editors (Takis Kayalis and Vicente Fernández González).

Photograph of a page of a book. Easily readable is the title (Classical Cavafy and Cavafy among the Classicists).

Lovely to receive my contributor copies of this smart new volume on Cavafy as World Literature. I have a short chapter about the uses to which Classicists put Cavafy in their scholarship.

The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 115 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @theromansoc.bsky.social @darcytuttle.bsky.social @profyarrow.bsky.social

Thank you!

these queer cycles to be instructive in our study of intertextuality—all too often understood as a linear, teleological process. [3/3]

that leads poets (Ennius, Catullus, Calvus, Gallus, Ovid, Tibullus, Domitius Marsus and Statius) to queer normative conceptions of time. Thus, characters become shared cyclically between poems from vastly different chronological eras. In all, I argue that we should take [2/3]

Delighted that my latest article, ‘Hell is Other Poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in Queer Elysium’ is out in the Journal of Roman Studies: doi.org/10.1017/S007....

In it, I argue that the Underworld operates, for Latin poetics, as a multiply-accessible ‘shared space’ [1/3]

Photograph of Durham cathedral and castle above the river Wear.

Excited to be back in Durham for my talk this afternoon @durhamclassics.bsky.social, titled ‘When Sappho Met Lydia’.

It’s a reading of the Lydia through the lenses of both Sapphic intertextuality (philologically understood) and through Sapphic desire (via Sedgwick), in time for #LGBTHistoryMonth.

Home | JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School Welcome - The 32nd JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School will take place at St John's College, Durham University from 25th July - 1st August 2026

📣 Places on @jactdurham.bsky.social are filling up fast 📣

Join us in July at St John’s College, Durham University for a week of #Latin and/or #AncientGreek! New for 2026: Classical Civilisation - Women: The Reality Behind the Myth!

Register online: www.durhamglss.org

schools, esp. UK schools.

As I discuss, the landscape of UK LGBTQ+ education (esp. trans education) is in a lot of flux, but hopefully, for those who are able to use them, QTP's resources provide helpful, tailored and scholarly information about LGBTQ+ ancient history [2/2]

Lovely to see this out (in FirstView): "Beyond gay history month: queering the past with ‘Queering the Past(s)’" (tinyurl.com/4vrskdw2), my new article in the Journal of Classics Teaching about using resources from queeringthepasts.com to provide LGBTQ+ education in [1/2]

Photograph of a hand holding an academic journal, emblazoned with an image of a fish.

Photograph of a Page of an academic article, titled “Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea”

Lovely to receive my author copies of CP 120.3, containing my recent article on the Carmina Priapea, obscenity and space!

Front cover of a book in yellow, entitled Alaudae, edited by Llewelyn Morgan and Michael Lombardi-Nash.

Photo of a double page of a book. The left page gives a Latin text of Issue 7 of the Alaudae, while the right page gives the same text in English.

Lovely to get my author copies of the Alaudae translation cooked up by Michael Lombardi-Nash. I hadn’t read my translation (of Issue 7) since I sent it off in 2021, so it was delightful to revisit it this morning!

A big thank-you to @joewatstein.bsky.social for pulling this together!

resources and examples of good practice across secondary and university-level Latin teaching in the UK!

Co-authored with @esthermeijer.bsky.social , Lottie Mortimer, @cressidaryan.bsky.social, @corabeth.bsky.social, Francesca Modini and Vlada Oulitskaia. 2/2

Lovely to see this out in the world: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0.... My report of a workshop I organised at the 2024 CA on the intersection between EDI and Latin language teaching, out now in the @cucdbulletin.bsky.social Read for an overview of the discussions had, but also for a lot of 1/2

journal cover

New issue of Classical Philology Vol. 120, No. 3 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2025/... @chicagojournals.bsky.social

Very happy to see this out in the world!

I’ve been working with various versions of this article for five years. It argues for a collective/unitarian reading of the CP that attends to their spatial poetics as cause and consequence of Priapus’ split personality: at once divine and earthly, sacred and profane.

Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea | Classical Philology: Vol 120, No 3 Abstract This article argues that the Priapus of the Carmina Priapea is trapped—spatially and poetologically—by the domain over which he presides: lewd obscenity. I show how the CP’s garden becomes th...

It’s publication day! My new article, ‘Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea’ is out now in volume 120.3 of Classical Philology.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Black text of an academic article on white paper. Title: Classical Cavafy and Cavafy among the classicists.

Clearly, ‘tis the season, for it is once again proofs’ day!

This time, I am working on proofs for a short chapter, ‘Classical Cavafy and Cavafy among the Classicists’, for the forthcoming Bloomsbury volume, ‘Cavafy as World Literature’! Due out at the end of this year.

Printout of article proofs. Black font on white paper.

It is once again proofs day! This time for my piece on queering Latin love poetry in the Underworld, out in this year’s JRS.

Hell is Other Poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in Queer Elysium

Off to Warwick to talk about some nice(ish) things in Lucan!

Thanks for the invitation @joewatstein.bsky.social 😊

Thank you!

Thank you! I was sure someone would make me excise that….

Screenshot of the first page of an academic article (black text on white page), entitled 'Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea'.

Proofs day! Forthcoming in July in Classical Philology: 'Down the Gardem Path: Divinity, Space and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea'.

Five books; The first two volumes of the newish Loeb translation of Fragmentary Republican Latin (Ennius) Lafaye’s Budé of Catullus Butler’s Loeb of Quintilian, vol. 4 Gow and Page’s commentary on the Hellenistic epigrams of the Greek Anthology.

A nice little haul of discount philology from this weekend’s shopping trip:

Hello! My new article is now out in Arethusa: '(Re)Producing The Egyptian: Arboricultural Cultivation Of The Roman State In Lucan’s Civil War'.

I consider the epic's tree imagery as metaphor for the Roman state, pointing to the protagonists' attempts at cultivation & propagation.

Seven books on a multi coloured carpet. Studien zum Corpus Priapeorum queer ecologies Bad Education Petronii satirae et liber priapeorum Powerplay in Tibullus the Roman poetry of love Amor: roma. Love and Latin literature

After a wonderful weekend with @esthermeijer.bsky.social in London (seeing sites and enjoying theatre), I’m quite proud of my wide-ranging haul—some new, some second, third, fourth or fifth hand!

Join me & the rest of the team this summer in Durham for the 31st JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School!

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Most of the image is dominated by a book. The book is mostly white, with a dark blue chevron at the bottom and a photograph of Dostoevsky in the middle. The title is Dostoevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted By Death by Julia Kristeva

After a fairly heavy week, I’m very excited to be gifting myself with the new(ish) Kristen’s to enjoy over the next few weeks!