Originally from London, I studied Classics at Oxford (MA, 2012-16) and then Cambridge (MPhil, 2016-17, PhD, 2018-22). I then remained at Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College (2022-25), during which time I also lectured part-time at King’s College London (2022-23). I then spent a year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Heidelberg University in Germany (2025-26), before returning to the UK to take up my post here at Glasgow in August 2026.

I specialise in Greek and Roman art history, and work at the intersection of art and text.

My first book project — Thinking through Images: The Philosophy of Greek Mythology in Roman Art and Ecphrasis (c. 50 BCE - 250 CE) — is forthcoming with CUP's Greek Culture in the Roman World series. The book interrogates the role that philosophy played in shaping how the educated elite engaged with art during this period. In particular, it examines how the elite’s rigorous training in classical and Hellenistic philosophy informed how they thought, spoke, and wrote about artworks depicting subjects and scenes from Greek mythology, from the rape of Europe to the matricide of Orestes. To address this question, the book crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries in Classics to bring Roman art, philosophical theory, and the description of art in Latin and imperial Greek literature into conversation.

I am now embarking on a second, major research project — provisionally titled The Art of Ancient Animals — that explores the complex ways in which animals were assimilated to artists and artworks in Graeco-Roman thought. In doing so, the project aims to recuperate the self-referential dynamics of ancient artworks depicting animals, and to recover a more ecologically minded way of theorising human art production than might be expected of classical art history. For some first thoughts stemming from this project, see my article on the octopus and image-making in Art History (2024).

Prior publications

I warmly welcome inquiries from prospective, postgraduate research students interested in developing projects in any area of Graeco-Roman art history, especially if they bridge the study of art and text in some way. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss a potential research proposal (my email address can be found above).

In 2025-26 I am convening the course Roman Art and taking Advanced Latin for Semester 1. I am also contributing to several team-taught modules, including Augustan Rome, Empire & Identity, Theories & Methods for Ancient History and Classics, and Approaching the Ancient World through Material Culture.