Thomas is a sixth-year doctoral candidate on the Classical Philology track. His dissertation examines modern and contemporary poetry and drama from his native U.K. in light of the historic entanglement of classics and empire, and makes the case for reading certain English and Northern Irish authors’ engagement with classical texts “postimperially.”
He also works on American classical receptions and is currently co-editing a volume on this topic. Other research interests include Catullus and the neoterics, Ovid’s Heroides, and interdisciplinary approaches to Latin literature.
Publications
2023:
Review of Mark Storey, Time and Antiquity in the American Empire: Roma Redux in Latomus 82.1, 199-201.
2024:
“Catullus, Hesiod, and the Muses” in Classical Philology 119.4, 132-139.
Forthcoming:
Review of T. E. Franklinos and J. Ingleheart (2024), Essays on Ovidian and Propertian Elegy for Ordia Prima.
“Dissociative Moments in Late Republican and Augustan Poetry” in H. Baumann and L. Schmeider eds. The Senses on Edge: Overstrained and Fading Senses in Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag), 83-105.
Review of F. Martelli and G. Sissa eds. (2023), Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination (London: Bloomsbury) for Hermathena.