I earned my doctorate from The Ohio State University in 2021 with a graduate interdisciplinary specialization in religions of the ancient Mediterranean and have since been teaching at Bryn Mawr College in the Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies department as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

Much of my recent and in-progress work deals with the ways in which Greek poets led their audiences to conceptualize and interact with the supernatural entities that populate their performances. I am drawn especially to mythic narratives that tell of the horrifying aspects of the divine.

My first book, Theologies of Fear in Early Greek Epic (Routledge 2024), asks why Hesiod and the poets of the Homeric Hymns chose to tell myths that describe the divine-human relationship as fraught and frightening for the mortals involved.

I am now at work on two other book projects. The first, Classic Horror: Facing our fears with Greek and Roman myths, grows out of my undergraduate course of the same name. There, I found that contemporary horror media and theories about it are a useful tool for understanding the work that violent, gory, claustrophobic, or otherwise horrifying myths can do for their ancient and modern audiences. The second is about those instances in myth and in practice wherein average human beings manage to get a little bit of divine power for themselves.

I am engaged in a constellation of other projects, including: the organization of Investigating global pre-modernity, a workshop series funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Navigating Myth, Ritual, and Belief, a co-edited volume on these areas in ancient Mediterranean and contemporary pagan religions; and co-authored work on a new edition (and the first widely-available one) of Sonia Greene Davis and H. P. Lovecraft’s Alcestis: A Play. For more of my scholarly work, see my Portfolio page and CV.

I am also a certified yoga instructor (RYT-500), with additional certifications in Katonah and AIReal Yoga. I guest lead studio classes, workshops, and teacher trainings at LIT Life + Yoga in Columbus, OH and at Bryn Mawr College.