WRITING
Criticism & Essays
My Classics Will Be Intersectional, Or… – Eidolon, December 4, 2020.
Resistrata! On the Ethics of Classical Reception – Eidolon, November 27, 2020.
Viewpoint: What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Greta Thunberg Trolls – With Helen Morales. BBC News, October 26, 2019.
The Problems with Online ‘Debate Me’ Culture – Washington Post, August 29, 2019.
Sex Strikes Have Always Been About Patriarchal Power, Not Women’s Rights – Washington Post, May 17, 2019.
Guess Who’s Championing Homer? Radical Online Conservatives – Washington Post, November 2, 2018.
Catharsis Delenda Est – Eidolon, July 30, 2018.
How to Be the Perfect Victim of Internet Harassment – Cloelia, January 4, 2018.
‘Learn Some F*cking History’ – Eidolon, October 5, 2017.
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Anti-Semitic Twitter Trolls – The Establishment, February 6, 2017.
Medea’s Postpartum Obsession – Eidolon, December 14, 2016.
Putting the ‘Neo’ Back in ‘Neo-Nazi’ – Jezebel, December 13, 2016.
How to Be a Good Classicist Under a Bad Emperor – Eidolon, November 21, 2016.
In the Culture War Between Students and Professors, the University Is the Real Enemy – Jezebel, June 27, 2016.
Make Comparisons Great Again – Eidolon, June 6, 2016.
The Breasts That Launched A Thousand Ships – Eidolon, May 3, 2016.
Should Academics Fear the Manosphere? – Jezebel, January 27, 2016.
Bang Rome: Ovid and the Original Sin of Pickup Artistry – Eidolon, December 21, 2015.
He Said, She Said: The Mythical History of the False Rape Allegation – Jezebel, July 30, 2015.
Burn This Book – Eidolon, July 6, 2015.
How to Teach an Ancient Rape Joke – Jezebel, May 26, 2015.
Not All Tragedians – Eidolon, April 27, 2015.
Persuasion – Avidly, February 20, 2015.
Academic Writing
The Curious Incident of the Intertextual Debt in the Frogs – Didaskalia 14.02, October 2018.
The Clothes Make the Man: Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Evolution of the Ragged Hero – Classical Philology 111.3: 201-223.
Branding Irony: Comedy and Crafting the Public Persona – In Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes, ed. Philip Walsh (Leiden: Brill) 148-171.
Book Reviews
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to “Game of Thrones” – The Times Literary Supplement November 9, 2019.
John Bloxham, Ancient Greece and American Conservatism: Classical Influence on the Modern Right – BMCR 2019.05.13.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way and The Roman Way – The Times Literary Supplement November 8, 2017.
Humor
Wayside School Is Closed Until Further Notice – Medium, March 16, 2020
A Lexicon of Portmanbros I Have Used Recently – Idle Musings, March 12, 2019
Don’t Look Now, But There’s an Ancient Roman Depiction of a Dolphin Under Your Bed – Eidolon, June 16, 2016.
Things I Have Said to My Male Toddler That Make Me Sound Like a Really Bad Feminist – Idle Musings, June 13, 2016.