About

I'm an Associate Professor of Classics at Mount Allison University, where I work at the intersection of Classics and Computer Science — the pairing I was hired to embody. My research applies computational stylometry to Greek and Latin epic, read through narratological, intertextual, and oral–formulaic frameworks.

I am co-editor, with Berenice Verhelst, of Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic: Expanding the Methods and Canon (Brill, 2026), and co-investigator, with Berenice Verhelst and Simone Finkmann, of DICES, an open database of direct speech in Greek and Latin epic poetry.

At Mount Allison I teach across the Classics literature curriculum — epic, tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, and ancient Greek language — and supervise undergraduate research in digital methods. A full record of my teaching, publications, and service is on my CV page.

Previous projects

With Walter Scheirer I'm the co-author of Quantitative Intertextuality (Springer, 2019) a handbook of case studies in the application of stylometric methods to literary questions in both ancient and modern media, grounded in a theoretical framework that brings together intertextual and cognitive models of readerly behaviour.

With Damien Nelis and Lavinia Galli Milic I was a member of the University of Geneva research project, “Intertextuality in Flavian Epic,” which used computational, quantitative methods to understand the relationship between Latin epics of the Flavian period and their predecessors in new detail. Together with Neil Coffee, we produced the edited volume Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches. (DeGruyter, 2019)

Under the direction of Neil Coffee, I was lead programmer for the Tesserae Project from 2010–2016. Tesserae, a search engine for allusion in Greek and Latin poetry, broke new ground in using quantitative metrics to model reader response to textual reminiscences and helped to popularize digital, distant reading methods in intertextual studies.