Education

• PhD (May 2018)
  • The Ohio State University, Department of Classics
  • dissertation: "Herakles and Dionysos in Archaic Greece," supervised by Sarah Iles Johnston
• MA (October 2012)
  • McGill University, Department of History and Classical Studies
  • thesis: "Hero Cult in Pausanias," supervised by Bill Gladhill
• BA (May 2009)
  • McGill University, Department of History and Classical Studies

Conference Presentations

• “Herakles in the Dionysian Context of Bacchylides 16”: presented on May 7, 2019 at the annual conference of the Classical Association of Canada, hosted by the Department of Classics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
• "Dionysos and the Olbios Herakles of Hes. Th. 954": presented on October 19, 2018 at the annual meeting of the Atlantic Classical Association, hosted by the Department of Classics at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• "Herakles and the Order of Zeus in Hesiod’s Theogony": presented on September 14, 2018 at the conference "Ex arches: looking back at the myths of origin" at the Department of Classics at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
• "The Association of Herakles and Dionysos in Homer": presented on May 10, 2017 at the annual conference of the Classical Association of Canada, hosted by the Department of Classics at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
• "Euripides’ Heracles: Becoming a Beast and a God": presented on March 28, 2015 at the graduate colloquium "Beauty in the Beast: Mutants, Monsters, and Monstrosities in the Ancient World" at the Department of Classics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Research Interests

• mythological characters in archaic Greek epic poetry and figured pottery
• apotheosis and eschatology in ancient Greek religion
• the reception of Herakles/Hercules in the West