Education
Harvard University; University of California, Los Los Angeles University of Virginia.
Harvard University; University of California, Los Los Angeles University of Virginia.
His research focuses on ancient Greek poetry and art His book on male-male erotic scenes in ancient Athenian vase-painting (Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods, co-authored with Eva Cantarella, Routledge 2008), was positively reviewed: it greatly expanded the number of known scenes and proposed a sophisticated framework for their interpretation. He has written articles on topics including the Greek poets Anacreon and Theognis, as well as book reviews for Classical World.
His poems and translations have appeared in such journals as Persephone, the Southern Humanities Review, and Literary Imagination.
He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Pomona College, and New York University.