Ph.D. (Comparative Literature) University of Chicago
M.A. (Divinity) University of Chicago
B.A. (English with Anthropology) University of Michigan
Greek and Roman mythology
Ancient theories of signs and interpretation
Philosophy and divination
A Cultural HIstory of Ideas, in five volumes (Bloomsbury 2023)
Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Antiquity (Princeton 2016)
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory, ed. with Rita Copeland (2010)
Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, ed. with Sarah Iles Johnston (Brill 2005)
The Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts (Cambridge 2004)