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Profile
I was an undergraduate student in Classics at Trinity, and went on (after a year in the States) to study for the MPhil. and PhD. I later taught in the Department of Classics at King’s College London from 2011 until 2022 before returning to Cambridge in 2023.
In 2022 I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy where I’m a member of the Sections for History of Art and Music, Classics and Archaeology.
One of my favourite things about Cambridge has been returning to the college where I studied. The educational experience at Trinity was transformational, not least thanks to the teaching; during my time as a student I was also encouraged to travel around the ancient Mediterranean (including stays at the British School at Athens and British School at Rome).
During my postdoctoral research I spent a lot of time working in Germany, and I became a German citizen in 2017. A particular side interest lies in German intellectual history and aesthetics, especially during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
I currently serve as a member of College Council.
Teaching
I teach a variety of subjects – above all pertaining to Greek and Roman art and archaeology, but also including literature and Greek and Latin language. I also sometimes teach students for other triposes, including e.g. Archaeology and History of Art.
Research
Particular interests lie in ancient aesthetics, the interaction between ancient visual and literary cultures and the legacies and afterlife of classical art.
Selected Publications
(forthcoming 2026) How to Describe a Painting: Philostratus and Art Criticism in the Graeco-Roman World (with Jaś Elsner; Cambridge University Press)
(2018) The Art of Hegel’s Aesthetics: Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History (edited with Paul A. Kottman; W. Fink)
(2018) The Classical Now (edited with James Cahill & Ruth Allen; Elephant)
(2018) Classical ‘Art History’ (edited virtual edition of Art History journal)
(2018) Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art: Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity (edited with Nikolaus Dietrich; de Gruyter)
(2018) The Embodied Object in Classical Antiquity (edited with Milette Gaifman & Verity Platt; 2018; = Art History 40.3)
(2017) Rethinking Lessing’s Laocoon: Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the ‘Limits’ of Painting and Poetry (edited with Avi Lifschitz; Oxford University Press)
(2017) Morphogrammata/The Lettered Art of Optatian: Figuring Cultural Transformations in the Age of Constantine (edited with Johannes Wienand; W. Fink)
(2017) The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History (edited with Verity Platt; Cambridge)
(2016) Sight and the Ancient Senses (Routledge)