Classical Studies PhD Student
I am in my fifth year as a PhD student at BU, having received my BA (2019) and MA (2021) in Classics at the universities of British Columbia and Alberta. My research interests are in the literary history of ancient philosophy, rhetoric, and early Christianity. At BU I have had the privilege of teaching Latin grammar, readings in Ovid, and a course on the history of ancient allegorical interpretation.
My dissertation, a systematic comparison of the composition and reception-history of the Pauline letters and Epictetus’ Dissertationes, will offer a unique portrait of the literary conventions at the heart of Greek popular philosophy and at the origins of Christian homiletics.
I currently live in Framingham, MA with my lovely wife and daughter.
Publications
Forthcoming (with Brian Dunkle SJ, Henry Wansbrough OSB, and Dunstan Enzor OSB), Hilary of Poitiers: Tractatus super Psalmos, a new translation in the Fathers of the Church series, CUA Press
2025 “Nazianzen Contra Sophistas: Notes on the Genre and Structure of Oration 27” in Sacris Erudiri 63 (forthcoming this fall)
2024 “‘Grand Words for a Common Thing’: Precursors to The Grammar of Assent in John Henry Newman’s Early Classical Readings (1809-1826)” in The Newman Studies Journal 21.1 (https://doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2024.a934089)
2024 “Elementary Errors: Philosophers, Idolaters, and τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου in Paul and Clement of Alexandria” in Vigiliae Christianae 78.4 (https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10090)
Book Reviews
2025 Review of Sylvain Roux, La philosophie antique comme exercice spirituel? Un paradigme en question, in BMCR (https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.06.24/)
2024 Review of T.A. Brookins, Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Corinthians: Paul, Stoicism, and Spiritual Hierarchy, forthcoming in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 86, no. 3 (July, 2024), pp. 610-12 (http://doi.org/10.1353/cbq.2024.a931752)
Select Conference Papers
May 2025 “Origen and Hilary among Patristic Interpreters of the διάψαλμα (Selah)” North American Patristics Society Conference Chicago, IL
Aug 2024 “The Etymology of ‘Confessing’ in Augustine’s Early Works” Oxford Patristics Conference Oxford, UK
January 2024 “Blindness and Vergil’s Auditory Imagination” Society for Classical Studies Annual Conference Chicago, IL