My research centres on two areas: Greek epic in the broadest sense, and the poetics and politics of the Greek imperial period. I am particularly interested in the continuation and transformation of epic in Late Antiquity, the effects of religious change on literary culture, and the relationship between ‘classical' and ‘Christian' canons. My first book – The Resurrection of Homer (CUP 2020) – explored the reception of Homer in imperial Greek epic and the impact of this reception on Greek identity politics during Roman rule. My new book, entitled Homer and the Bible: Essays on Christian Greek Epic, continues and expands this work into new literary spaces. It focuses on the aesthetic dynamics and cultural tensions at work in the large corpus of Christian Greek hexameter composed in the early Christian period. I have published on many texts from the imperial era, including an edited volume on the Posthomerica (Writing Homer Under Rome, EUP 2022), and articles on the poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus (CCJ 66, 2020), the Sibylline Oracles (2022) and Greek and Latin literary interactions (2022). I have ongoing projects on Nonnus' Dionysiaca, counterfactual futures in epic, late antique exegesis, and Biblical Paraphrase. I have recently finished editing a new Cambridge Companion to Greek Epic, which contains twenty-one chapters on multiple dimensions of Greek epic, stretching from Homer to the present day.
