Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics. His work concentrates in Latin poetry, particularly its religious background and affinities with Hellenistic poetics. He is the author of Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (Cambridge, 2009), which was awarded the 2010 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit by the American Philological Association, Ovid's Elegiac Festivals (Peter Lang, 1991) and numerous articles on various Latin authors. He has also co-edited four collaborative collections on Greek and Roman literature and culture, most recently A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). Currently he is working on Ovid's Fasti and its reception.-faculty profile