Essays

“Translation and the Interdisciplinary Classics Classroom.” Ancient Exchanges (August 2023).

“Ovid’s tales of mutual love show he was more than a poet of rape.” Psyche (November 14, 2022).

“Classical Poetry is full of sexual violence. We shouldn’t hide that.” The Washington Post (November 8, 2022). (Spanish version published in Infobae, November 21, 2022).

“Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Literary Hub (November 8, 2022).

“Does Ovid Still Matter Today?” Electric Literature (November 8, 2022).

“Horace’s Lyrics of Friendship Offer Hope to Our Troubled World” Psyche (February 3, 2021).

“Stanzas: Ovid.” The Sewanee Conglomerate (blog of The Sewanee Review) (August 23, 2019).

“How (Not) to Translate the Female Body.” The Sewanee Review (Summer, 2019). Selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020. (Also available here.)

“The Original Sex Strike Was a Farce and This One Is Too: A Classics Scholar on the Pitfalls–and Potential–of Basing Your Activism on Lysistrata.” Electric Literature (May 17, 2019).

“Seneca’s ‘Lost Cause’: The Myth of the Noble Stoic/Southern Slave Owner.” Eidolon (February 1, 2019).

“Rape, Lost in Translation.” Electric Literature (May 1, 2018). (Translated into Spanish by Manuel Silva here.)

“The Bad Wives: Misogyny’s Age-Old Roots in the Home.” Eidolon (April 9, 2018).

“Pygmalion President: Trump and the Ancient Myth of the Perfect Woman.” The Millions (February 6, 2018).

“Is Homer’s Calypso a Feminist Icon or a Rapist?” Electric Literature (January 30, 2018).

“The Flight of Icarus.” Gucci Stories. (November 30, 2017).

“My Grandmother, Too.” Avidly (November 15, 2017)

“Can a Middle-Aged Woman Seize the Day?” Eidolon (October 23, 2017).

“From Penelope to Pussyhats: The Ancient Origins of Feminist Craftivism.” Literary Hub (June 7, 2017)

“Between the Ancient World and Me: Modes of Defiance in Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sophocles, and Plato.” Eidolon (February 23, 2017).

“Elena Ferrante’s Virgil: Rewriting the Aeneid in the Neapolitan Novels.” Eidolon (November 17, 2016).

“My Grandfather, Aeneas, and the Memory of War.” The Millions (August 3, 2016).