Bio

Awards and Achievements:

(1) Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2012­-2013
(2) Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Research, University Level, 2010
(3) Cornerstone Faculty Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, 2008­-2011
(4) Fellowship, Loeb Classical Library Foundation (Harvard University), 2008-­2009
(5) Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Visiting Fellowship from the University of Utah Humanities Center, 2000-­2001
(6) Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, College Level, 1999
(7) Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, College Level, 1999
(8) Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1992
(9) Corresponding member, Ateneo Veneto (Venice), 1992 (by invitation)
(10) Incentive Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work given by Classical and Modern Literature, 1990
(11) Delmas Foundation Grant for study in Venice, 1987

Current Research Projects

The section on Virgil for the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum, a reference book containing information on all the commentaries to classical authors prior to 1600

A book on the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance, from a new theoretical perspective

Courses Taught

• Spring 2016 CLAS 410, Senior Seminar: Reception
• Fall 2015 CLAS 222, Intermediate Latin II
• Spring 2015 CLAS 221, Intermediate Latin I
• Fall 2014 CLAS 322, Advanced Latin
• Spring 2014 CLAS 222, Intermediate Latin II
• Fall 2013 CLAS 222, Intermediate Latin II
• Fall 2011 CLAS 221, Intermediate Latin I
• Spring 2011 CLAS 222, Intermediate Latin II
• Fall 2010 CLAS 372, Greek and Roman Epic; CLAS 352, Greek and Roman Drama; CLAS 322, Advanced Latin