Specialization: Greek Drama, Augustan Poetry, Narrative Theory

• Tragedy's End: Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama, Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Present Shock: An Episode in Greek Culture. University of Michigan Press (forthcoming)

• Beginnings in Classical Literature, edited with Thomas Cole. (Yale Classical Studies 29) Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Sophocles' Electra in Performance (DRAMA 4). M&P Verlag, Stuttgart, 1996.
• Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature, edited with Deborah Roberts and Don Fowler. Princeton University Press, 1997
• “Euripidean Aetiologies.” Classical Bulletin 76 (2000) 3-27.

• “Protagoras and the Parts of Time.” Hermes 129 (2001) 547-550.
• “Rethinking Time: from Bakhtin to Antiphon.” Pages 187-219 in Bakhtin and the Classics, ed. R. B. Branham. Evanston, 2002.
• (with John Kirkpatrick) “Heracles, Cercopes and Paracomedy.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 132 (2002) 29-61.
• “Narrative, Responsibility, Realism.” Pages 320-340 in The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative (Ancient Narrative Supp. 3). Groningen, 2005.
• “On Ancient Medicine and its intellectual context.” Pages 49-67 in Hippocrates in Context, ed. P. J. van der Eijk. Leiden, 2005.
• “Trope and Setting in Electra.” Pages 183-200 in Sophocles and the Greek Language, ed. I.J.F. de Jong and A. Riksbaron. Leiden, 2006.

• Classics 40- Greek Myth
• Classics 109 - Viewing the Barbarian
Description: An introduction to the ways in which foreigners or "barbarians" were represented in classical Greek literature, especially in stories of travel to foreign lands and in accounts of the Persian Wars.   Readings and discussion will explore the Greek fascination with “exotic” people such as Scythians, Amazons, Egyptians and Persians, and will consider how the portrayal of other people reflected the importance of ethnicity, gender and power in Athenian culture.