Following two non-consecutive years at the University of Chicago, I graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2009. In 2014, I received an MSIS (library degree) from the University of Texas at Austin, and subsequently worked as an archivist at Penn's Annenberg School for Communication. While working, I gradually took Classical Studies post-baccalaureate courses, before entering the PhD program here in 2023.
My research interests are generally related to the aesthetics of humor writ large. Writ smaller, I study both Greek and Latin literature (plus subliterature, and everything between) that is funny, and Greek and Latin literature that is about being funny. Most miniscule at present are 5th century Sicilian productions, especially the woefully fragmentary mimes of Sophron.
When not wallowing in the ancient Mediterranean, I write jokes.