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“φασὶ γοῦν ὡς ἡ ποιητικὴ πολλὰς δίδωσιν ἀφορμὰς πρὸς σοφίαν καὶ εὐδαίμονα βίον, ἄνευ δὲ τοῦ ἀπὸ γραμματικῆς φωτὸς οὐχ οἷόν τε τὰ παρὰ τοῖς ποιηταῖς διορᾶν ὁποῖά ποτε ἐστιν· χρειώδης ἄρα ἡ γραμματική”—Sextus Empiricus (2nd. c. ce), Adversus Mathematicos I.270.
‘They assert, at least, that poetry furnishes many aids to wisdom and a happy life, but without the light of grammar it is not possible to discern clearly what the poets’ sayings really mean; therefore grammar is useful’—R. G. Bury, trans.
education
- 2006
- Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies
University of California, Los Angeles - 1998
- M.A. in Latin
UCLA - 1996
- B.A. in Classics
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
professional activity
research interests
- linguistic poetics, especially metrics and archaic Indo-European
- Greek and Latin linguistics, especially phonology
- languages of ancient Italy
recent and upcoming work
- [accepted]
- Italic Verse: A Metrical Description of Archaic Latin, Faliscan and Sabellian Poetry. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck.
- 2008. 6 January.
Chicago, Illinois. - “The Poetry and Phonology of the Paelignians.” 139th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association. Greek, Latin, and Indo-European Linguistics Panel.
- 2007
- “A Lydian Poem (Gusmani 11) Re-Examined.” In: Jones-Bley, Karlene, Martin E. Huld, Angela Della Volpe, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, edd. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, November 3–4, 2006 (selected papers). Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph 53. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man. 143–159.
- 2007. 16 June.
New Haven, Connecticut. - “Comparative-Historical Metrical Problem(s): Italic and Celtic.” 26th East Coast Indo-European Conference.
- 2007. 21 April.
Santa Cruz, California. - “A Problem in Comparative-Historical Metrics: Italic and Celtic.” Workshop: “Dialogues in Language and Poetry.” University of California, Santa Cruz.
teaching
- fall quarter 2007
- Latin 1.1 and .2: “Elementary Latin”
- Latin Literature 104: “Special Topics in Latin Literature: Lyric: Catullus & Horace”
- winter quarter 2008
- Latin Literature 104: “Special Topics in Latin Literature: Epistolography: Cicero and Pliny the Younger”
- spring quarter 2008
- Pre- and Early Modern Literature 124: “Myth and Poetry in the Ancient World”