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Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Introduction," in Andrew Cain and Gregory Hays, ed. "Omnium Magistra Virtutum": Studies in Honour of Danuta R. Shanzer (Turnhout, 2022), 9–16.
  • "Surprised by Sorrow: Avitus Carm. 3.209–12," in Andrew Cain and Gregory Hays, ed. "Omnium Magistra Virtutum": Studies in Honour of Danuta R. Shanzer (Turnhout, 2022), 303–305.
  • "Chrétien and Hyginus Revisited," Romance Philology 75 (2021), 336–338.
  • "Notes on the Vita S. Constantinae Virginis (BHL 1927)," Sacris Erudiri 60 (2021), 123–179.
  • "The Waning of Manuscript Production," in Frank T. Coulson and Robert G. Babcock, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 567-578.
  • "The History of Manuscripts since 1500," in Frank T. Coulson and Robert G. Babcock, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 957-979.
  • "Notes on the Digby Mythographer," Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 55 (2020), 493-521.
  • "Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Virginia," in Harald Anderson and David Gura, ed. Between the Text and the Page (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2020), 289-348.
  • "A World Without Letters: Fulgentius and the De aetatibus mundi et hominis," Journal of Medieval Latin 29 (2019), 303-339.
  • "Reflection I: The Minotaur," in A. LoLordo, ed. Persons. A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 46-51.
  • "Notes on the Vita Sanctae Heliae (BHL 3798)," Sacris Erudiri 57 (2018), 167-266.
  • "Notes on John of Garland's Ars Lectoria Ecclesie," Journal of Medieval Latin 28 (2018), 141-210.
  • "Notes on the 'New Apuleius,'" Classical Quarterly 68 (2018), 246-256.
  • "The Library of Hélion Jouffroy. A Survey and Some Additional Identifications," Quaerendo 47 (2017), 199-221.
  • "Who Speaks at Prudentius, Per. 9.65-6?" Prometheus 43 (2017), 253-266.
  • "Roman Mythography," in V. Zajko and H. Hoyle, ed. A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology (Malden: Wiley Blackwell, 2017), 29-41.
  • "The Dissuasio Valerii and its Commentators: Some Supplementary Notes," in G. Dinkova-Bruun and T. Major, ed. Teaching and Learning in Medieval Europe. Essays in Honour of Gernot R. Wieland (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), 173-199.
  • "Notes on the Proverbia Grecorum," Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 52 (2017), 109-115.
  • "Aristotle's Poetics and Greek Tragedy," in Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm, ed., The Greek Plays (New York: Modern Library, 2016), 809-814.
  • "Sounds from a Silent Land: the Latin Poetry of Byzantine North Africa," in S.T. Stephens and J. Conant, ed., North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2016), 269-293.
  • "Notes on John of Garland's Epithalamium Beatae Virginis Mariae," Journal of Medieval Latin 24 (2014), 53-88.
  • "A Poem by Guarino on Leonello of Ferrara," Traditio 69 (2014), 147-151.
  • "The Mythographic Tradition after Ovid," in J.F. Miller and C.E. Newlands, eds., A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2014), 129-143.
  • "Fulgentius the Mythographer?" in S.M. Trzaskoma and R.S. Smith, eds., Writing Myth: Mythography in the Ancient World (Leuven: Peeters, 2013), 309-333.
  • "Ancient Classics," in K. Hayes, ed. Edgar Allan Poe in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 221-231.
  • "Prose Style," in R.J. Hexter and D. Townsend, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 217-238.
  • "John of Garland's Clauis Compendii. Notes and Explications," Journal of Medieval Latin 21 (2011), 53-136.
  • "Fulgentius of Ruspe and his Medieval Readers," in A. Piras, ed. 'Lingua et ingenium.' Studi su Fulgenzio di Ruspe e il suo contesto (Cagliari: Sandhi Editore, 2010), 105-146.
  • "'Important if True': Lucan's Orpheus and Aethicus Ister," Notes and Queries 57 (2010), 196-199.
  • "Did Chrétien de Troyes Know Hyginus's Fabulae?" Romance Philology 62 (2008), 75-81.
  • "Notes on the Glosarium Ainardi," Filologia Mediolatina 15 (2008), 269-281.
  • "Fulgentius," in M. Putnam and J. Ziolkowski, ed. The Virgilian Tradition. The First Fifteen Hundred Years (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 660-672.
  • "Further Notes on Fulgentius," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103 (2007), 483-498.
  • "Latin from A to P: The TLL in the Twentieth Century," Transactions of the American Philological Association 137 (2007), 483-490.
  • "The Tyranny of the Survey" in "Voces Mediolatinae," Illinois Classical Studies 30 (2007 for 2005), 254-258.
  • "Flumen orationis" in G.R. Wieland, C. Ruff and R.G. Arthur, eds. Insignis sophiae arcator. Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Michael Herren on his 65th Birthday (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), 1-27.
  • "Romuleis Libicisque litteris: Fulgentius and the 'Vandal Renaissance'" in A. Merrills, ed. Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique Africa (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 101-132.
  • "The Date and Identity of the Mythographer Fulgentius" Journal of Medieval Latin 13 (2003), 163-252
  • "Fulgentius on the Death of Alexander," Museum Helveticum 60 (2003), 124-125.
  • "Tales out of School: Grammatical Culture in Fulgentius the Mythographer" in Carol Lanham, ed. Latin Grammar and Rhetoric: Classical Theory and Medieval Practice (London: Continuum, 2002), 22-47.
  • "The Pseudo-Fulgentian Super Thebaiden" in Vertis in Usum: Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney (Munich and Leipzig: Saur, 2002), 200-218.
  • "Three Passages in Fulgentius," Eranos 99 (2001), 100-102.
  • "A Second Look at Fulgentius's Alexander" Vigiliae Christianae 54 (2000), 204-207.
  • "Jean Gerson (1363-1429)" in D. Sinnreich-Levi, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography: The French and Occitan Middle Ages (Detroit: Gale, 1999), 129-140.
  • "Varia Fulgentiana," Illinois Classical Studies 23 (1998), 127-137.
  • "A Note on Juvencus 4. 286," Classical Quarterly n.s. 48 (1998), 599-600.
  • "Le morte stagioni: Intertextuality in Quasimodo's Lirici Greci," Forum Italicum 29 (1995), 26-43.
  • "Exorcising Hipponax: Petitioners and Beggars in Greek Poetry," Lexis 12 (1994), 11-26.

Shorter Articles in Reference Works.

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. O.P. Nicholson (Oxford, 2018). Entries for Avienius (1:187); Avitus (1:188-9); Cornelius Labeo (1:416); Expositio totius mundi (1:576); Fulgentius of Ruspe (1:629); Fulgentius the Mythographer (1:629-30); Martianus Capella (2:971-2); Totius orbis descriptio (2:1511); Victor of Vita (2:1560-61); Vigilius of Thapsus (2:1563-4).
  • The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, ed. S. Echard and R. Rouse (Hoboken, 2017). Entry for John of Garland (3:1091-3).
  • The Virgil Encyclopedia, ed. R. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski (Malden, MA, 2014). Entries for Aegritudo Perdicae (1:14); Anselm (1:91); Boethius (1:98, with J. Ziolkowski); Ennodius (1:434); Florilegia (2:491-2); Fulgentius (2:514); Glossaries (2:559-60); Knight, W.F. Jackson (2:705-6); Vandals (3:1324).
  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed., ed. R. Greene (Princeton, 2012). Entry for Boustrophedon (159-160).
  • Dictionary of African Biography, ed. E.K. Akyeampong and H.L. Gates, Jr. (Oxford, 2012). Entry for Fulgentius of Ruspe (2: 396-397).
  • The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed., ed. S. Hornblower, et al. (Oxford, 2012). Entry for Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades (593; rev. of entry in 3d ed. by H.D. Jocelyn).
  • Thesaurus Linguae Latinae X.1.12 (2000). Entries for pertempto (1776-78); pervinco (1876-77).
  • Thesaurus Linguae Latinae X. 2.11 (1999). Entry for profundus (1746-1754).
  • Thesaurus linguae Latinae X.1.11 (1998). Entry for perpolio (1653-55);
  • Thesaurus linguae Latinae X.2.10 (1998). Entries for probator (1455-56); probatorius (1456-57); procellosus (1513-14); proceritas (1517-19); procerus (1519-21); procurro (1587-90).

Reviews

  • "Meow!" [Bohumil Hrabal, All My Cats, and four other books], in New York Review of Books, vol. 70, no. 11 (June 22, 2023), 55–58.
  • "The Last Reversal" [Christopher Star, Apocalypse and Golden Age and Chris Begley, The Next Apocalypse], in New York Review of Books, vol. 69, no. 13 (August 18, 2022), 67–70.
  • Benjamin Goldlust, Corippe. Iohannide. Livre 4, in Plekos 24 (2022), 179–192.
  • "A Mind in Pain" [Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy; Jonathan Sadowsky, The Empire of Depression; George Scialabba, How to be Depressed], in New York Review of Books, vol. 68, no. 16 (October 21, 2021), 32–35.
  • "Tune Out and Lean In" [recent books on Stoicism], in New York Review of Books, vol. 68, no. 4 (March 11, 2021), 37-40.
  • "Horace's How-To" [Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, Horace's 'Ars Poetica' ] in New York Review of Books, vol. 67, no. 10 (June 11, 2020), 28-29
  • "From Hercules to Hamlet" [Jonathan Bate, How the Classics Made Shakespeare], in New York Review of Books, vol. 66, no. 14 (Sept. 26, 2019), 74-76.
  • Eberhard Heck and Antonie Wlosok, ed. L. Caelius Firmianus Lactantius. Divinarum institutionum libri septem. Fasc. 3: Libri V et VI and Fasc. 4: Liber VII. Appendix. Indices, in Gnomon 90 (2018), 221-3.
  • "A Complicated Man" [Emily Wilson, tr. The Odyssey], in New York Times Book Review (Dec. 10, 2017), 24.
  • "Found in Translation" [Denis Feeney, Beyond Greek], in New York Review of Books, vol. 64, no. 11 (June 22, 2017), 56-58.
  • "Keeping Things Platonic" [Justin Stover, A New Work by Apuleius], in Times Literary Supplement, no. 5903 (May 20, 2016), 29.
  • "What's so Great about the Greeks?" [Edith Hall, Introducing the Ancient Greeks], in New York Review of Books, vol. 62 no. 19 (Dec. 3, 2015), 59-60.
  • Paolo Chiesa and Lucia Castaldi, ed. La trasmissione dei testi latini del medioevo / Medieval Latin Texts and their Transmission: Te.Tra.4, in Speculum 89 (2014), 1123-24.
  • Paolo Chiesa and Lucia Castaldi, ed. La trasmissione dei testi latini del medioevo / Medieval Latin Texts and their Transmission: Te.Tra.5, in Speculum 89 (2014), 1116-17.
  • "Roman Jokers" [Mary Beard, Laughter in Ancient Rome], in New York Review of Books 61, no. 12 (July 12, 2014), 63-65.
  • "The Homeric MOOC: Will it Revolutionize Education?" [Gregory Nagy, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours], in New York Review of Books 61, no. 9 (May 22, 2014), 18-20.
  • Michael Roberts, The Humblest Sparrow: The Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus, In Journal of Medieval Latin 23 (2013), 387-390.
  • Mathieu Desachy, Deux bibliophiles humanistes. Bibliothèques et manuscrits de Jean Jouffroy et d'Hélion Jouffroy, in Speculum 88 (2013), 506-7.
  • Christopher Allmand, The 'De Re Militari' of Vegetius. The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages, in Speculum 87 (2012), 1156-1157.
  • Peter Riedlberger, Philologischer, historischer und liturgischer Kommentar zum 8. Buch der Johannis des Goripp, in Scripta Classica Israelica 31 (2012), 233-237.
  • Roger Wright, ed., Latin vulgaire latin tardif VIII. Actes du VIIIe colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif (Oxford, 6-9 septembre 2006), in Journal of Medieval Latin 21 (2011), 302-305.  
  • Rita Copeland and Ineke Sluiter, ed., Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 (2011), 314-317. 
  • N. Hömke and C. Reitz, ed., Lucan's 'Bellum Civile': Between Epic Tradition and Aesthetic Innovation, in Religious Studies Review 37 (2011), 207-208.
  • J.H.D. Scourfield, ed. Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity: Inheritance, Authority and Change, in Hermathena 188 (2010 [pub. 2013]), 97-101.
  • R.H.F. Carver, The Protean Ass. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance, in Religious Studies Review 36 (2010), 222-223.
  • Jan Ziolkowski, Solomon and Marcolf, in Sixteenth Century Journal 41 (2010), 1175-1176.
  • Elsa Marguin-Hamon, La Clavis Compendii de Jean de Garlande, in Speculum 85 (2010), 977-978.
  • Paulo Farmhouse Alberto, ed. Eugenii Toletani Opera Omnia, in Journal of Medieval Latin 19 (2009), 291-294.
  • Ann E. Mullaney, trans., Teofilo Folengo. Baldo, vol. 1, in Sixteenth Century Journal 39 (2008), 855-856.
  • Marianne Pade, ed. On Renaissance Commentaries, in Sixteenth Century Journal 39 (2008), 239-241.
  • Roger Wright, A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin, in Catholic Historical Review 93 (2007), 896-897.
  • Elizabeth Irwin, Solon and Early Greek Poetry. The Politics of Exhortation, in American Journal of Philology 128 (2007), 427-431.
  • Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch. III. Band. Lieferung 5 (digressus - dissertatio), in Journal of Medieval Latin 14 (2004), 228-231.
  • R.M. D'Angelo, Carmen de figuris vel schematibus, in Classical Review 54 (2004), 131-132.
  • Paolo Gatti, ed. Un glossario bernense (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, A. 91 [18], in Journal of Medieval Latin 13 (2003), 262-264.
  • Maura K. Lafferty, Walter of Chatillon: Epic and the Problem of Historical Understanding, in Journal of Medieval Latin 11 (2001), 232-236.
  • S.J. Harrison, Apuleius. A Latin Sophist.] Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.03.13.
  • Ellen Greene, ed., Reading Sappho, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 99.05.01.
  • Dieter Schaller, Studien zur lateinischen Dichtung des Frühmittelalters, in Journal of Medieval Latin 8 (1998), 239-241.
  • J.J. Keaney and R. Lamberton, [Plutarch]: Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer and J. Stern, On Unbelievable Tales: Palaephatus: Peri Apiston, in Classical World 92 (1998), 168-169.
  • Anton Bierl, Die Orestie des Aeschylos auf der moderne Bühne, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.5.21.
  • H.J. Westra, ed., The Berlin Commentary on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Book I, in Journal of Medieval Latin 7 (1997), 281-284.
  • E. Wolff, ed. and tr., Dracontius, Oeuvres IV (C.U.F.), in Scholia Reviews ns 6/23 (1997).

Translated Articles

  • Various articles in the Suda On Line (SOL).
  • Pietro Pucci, "Textual Epiphanies in the Iliad," in his The Song of the Sirens (Lanham, MD, 1998), 69-80.
  • —, "Epiphanic Strategy and Intertextuality," ibid., 81-96.
  • —, "The I and the Other in Odysseus's Story of the Cyclopes," ibid. 113-130.
  • Ernesto Livorni, "Ezra Pound and Giuseppe Ungaretti: Between Haiku and Futurism," in R. Taylor and C. Melchior, edd. Ezra Pound and Europe (Amsterdam, 1993), 131- 144.

Current Projects

  • Fulgentius the Mythographer: A new text and translation of the four authentic works, with introduction and extensive commentary (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
  • Books and their Fates: An introduction to the history of medieval manuscripts from 1500 to the present.


PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES

  • "A World Without Letters," J.R. O'Donnell Memorial Lecture in Medieval Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, March 2019.
  • "Some Problems in the Vita S. Heliae," 53d International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2018.
  • "The Silence of St. Cassian," 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2017.
  • "Mapping Medieval Mythography," Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture, Texts & Contexts, Ohio State University, October 2016.
  • "John of Garland's Epic Elegia," 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2015.
  • "Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Virginia," Texts & Contexts, Ohio State University, October 2012.
  • "Noah's Granddaughters and other Fulgentian Problems," 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 2012.
  • "The Literature of Vandal and Byzantine Africa: Something Old, Something New?" Rome Re-Imagined: Byzantine and Early Islamic Africa, c. 500-800, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., April 2012.
  • "Mythology and Popular Culture," Mediterranean Society, Richmond, March 2012.
  • "Intrusive Glosses," Texts & Contexts, Ohio State University, October 2011.
  • "Alumen antiquum nomen ...: A twelfth-century lexicographical poem," Texts & Contexts, Ohio State University, November 2010.
  • "Quintus and the Well: an Epigram by 'Porfyrius'." Texts & Contexts, Ohio State University, November 2009.
  • "Index te libelli fefellit: The Prologue to Fulgentius's Mitologiae," Why Like Lies? Truth in the Fictions of Greek and Roman Literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, April 2009
  • "Fulgentius and his Renaissance Readers," Texts & Contexts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 2008.
  • "Medieval Latin Editing: Problems and Prospects," American Philological Association, Chicago, January 2008.
  • "A New Prose Summary of Ovid's Metamorphoses," Texts & Contexts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 2007.
  • "Fulgentius and his Medieval Readers: the Evidence of the Glosses," 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2007.
  • "Arta legis catena: Editing Fulgentius's De Aetatibus," Texts & Contexts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September 2006.
  • "Medieval Readers of Fulgentius's Expositio Sermonum Antiquorum," 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2006.
  • "Latin from A to P: the TLL in the Twentieth Century," American Philological Association, Montreal, January 2006.
  • "Fulgentius the Mythographer: Manuscripts and Reception," Texts & Contexts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September 2005.
  • "Recent Work on Fulgentius," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2005.
  • "Fama refert? Oral Sources and Hagiographical Texts," 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2005.
  • "Apuleius and Fulgentius," 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2004.
  • "Pagan Myths and Christian Allegory," Invited Lecture, University of Tennessee, April 2004.
  • "Meditations on Marcus Aurelius," American Philological Association, San Francisco, January 2004.
  • "After the Fall: Fulgentius's De Aetatibus Mundi et Hominis" International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2003.
  • "Ovid and Fulgentius," 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2002.
  • "Latin Lexicography: Past, Present and Future," 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2001.
  • "Experiments with Form: From Oulipo to Ovid," Classical Association of Virginia, Charlottesville, September 2000.
  • "One Fulgentius or Two?" 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2000.
  • "The Letters in the Historia Augusta," 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1999.
  • "The Pleasures of Banality: Rehabilitating Later Latin Art Prose," Invited Lecture, University of Virginia, February 1999.
  • "In Praise of Bad Latin: Vulgar Texts in the Elementary Latin Classroom," Illinois Classical Conference, Naperville, Illinois, October 1998.
  • "Ferrandus's Life of Fulgentius," 33rd, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1998.
  • "Sappho at the Soda Fountain," American Philological Association, Chicago, December 1997.
  • "The Style of the Pilgrim Egeria," Invited Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 1997.
  • "Toward a Typology of Bogus Authors," Invited Lecture, Harvard University, January 1996.
  • "Fulgentius and Scholarly Parody," American Philological Association, San Diego, December 1995.