University of Cambridge.
As of 2015 she is a reader in classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ"s College. She read classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1991, before taking a master"s degree in Roman and Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute. She then returned to Cambridge for her doctorate, which was supervised by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard.
Upon finishing her doctorate she lectured at the Universities of Bristol and Nottingham until being appointed to her current position in 2006.
She curated an exhibition on Antinous at the Moore Institute in Leeds and is on the academic advisory panel for the department of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She has written for The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian, and appeared on the 2011 British Broadcasting Corporation Four documentary Fig Leaf: The Biggest Cover-Up In History and on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s In Our Time.