• Classical Historiography
• Latin Literature
• Classical Reception

2009: Ph.D., Classics Yale University

(M.A. 2005, M.Phil. 2006)

Dissertation: The Culture of Authority: Narrative and the Roman Political Imagination

(directed by Christina S. Kraus and Celia E. Schultz)

2001: B.A. (magna cum laude), Greek and Latin Tel-Aviv University

Books

1. Livy. Trends in Classical Scholarship, de Gruyter. Under Contract. (in progress).

2. Livy and the Poetics of Citation. Cambridge University Press. Under contract. (in progress).

3. You Win or You Die: The Ancient World of Game of Thrones. I. B. Tauris, 2017.

Reviews: Potts, R. The Times Literary Supplement. (8/1/2017).

4. Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic: Politics in Prose. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Reviews: Frolov, R. Latomus 76 (2018): 1120-3; Smith, C. Gnomon 89 (2017): 340-43; Feldherr, A. CW 109 (2016): 268-269; Drogula, F. American Journal of Philology 137 (2016): 545-49; Walter, U. (2016) Histos 10: xxiii–xxviii.

5. Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition (co-edited with Brockliss, W., P. Chaudhuri, and K. Wasdin). Yale Classical Studies 36; Cambridge University Press, 2012. Paperback ed. 2016.

Reviews: Hooley, D. BMCR, 2012.04.24; Claassen, J. Classical Journal 2013.07.03; Henderson, J. Classical Review 63 (2013): 607-10.

Articles (* indicates peer-reviewed publications)

1. “An Immoral Life in An Immoral Society.” In: ed. C. Krebs, Cambridge Companion to Sallust. Forthcoming.

2. “The Censorship Manqué: Fabius Buteo’s lectio senatus and Livian censorship.” In: Antoniou, A., Smith, T. and K. Webb, The Roman Censorship. De Gruyter Brill 2026: 212-29

3. “There and Back Again: Structure and Crossing in Livy’s Third Decade.” In: ed. Chaplin, J. I. Garrison-Peirano and C. Stray, Commenting on the Past: Essays in Honor of Christina Shuttleworth Kraus. De Gruyter Brill 2025: 61-76.

4. “Recasting the Die? A New History of Julius Caesar,” Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 40.1: 149-157. 2023. (Review Article: Robert Morstein-Marx, Julius Caesar and the Roman People. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.)

5. “Game of Thrones and the Sublime.” In: Morena Soldevilla, R., C. Rosillo Lopez, A. Fossorio and F. Morsol, Game of Thrones: Views from the Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023: 167-90.*

6. “Classical Literature and Contemporary Classics.” In: ed. Bastos, J. M. and F. Santangelo, Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions. Bloomsbury Press, 2023: 151-70.*

7. “Not cricket, not classics? A case study in the limits of reception”, Classical Receptions Journal, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/claa022.*

8. ‘Imperium sine fine: The Future of Rome in Augustan Epic.’ In: Berthelot, K. and J. Price (eds.), The Future of Rome: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Perspectives. Cambridge University Press 2020: 47-63.*

9. ‘Livy’s Ennius.’ Farrell, J. and C. Damon (ed.) Ennius, Poetry, and Historiography. Cambridge University Press, 2020: 211-27.*

10. ‘Raison d’etat? Paradoxes of Political Realism in Livy’s Exemplarity.’ in Hollingworth, M. and R. Schuett (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism. Edinburgh University Press, 2018: 137-50.*

11. ‘Private Knowledge and Public Image in Roman Elections: The Case of the Pro Murena.’ In: Steel, C., H. van der Blom, and C. Gray (eds.), Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome: Speech, Audience, and Decision. Cambridge University Press, 2018: 222-35.*

12. ‘Citation, Spoliation, and the Appropriation of the Past in Livy’s AUC.’ In: Loar, M., C. MacDonald, and D. Padilla (eds.), Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation. Cambridge University Press, 2018: 30-46.*

13. Dexter, J., Katz, T., Tripuraneni, N., Dasgupta, T., Kannan, A., Brofos, J. A., Bonilla Lopez, J., Schroeder, L. A., Casarez, A., Rabinovich, M., Haimson Lushkov, A., and Chaudhuri, P. ‘Quantitative criticism of literary relationships.’ PNAS 2017, doi:10.1073/pnas.1611910114*

14. ‘Genre, Mimesis, and Intertext in Vergil and G.R.R. Martin.’ in: Rogers, B. and B. Stevens (eds.), Classical Themes in Modern Fantasy. Oxford University Press, 2017: 308-24.*

15. ‘Beyond Disgust: The Politics of Fastidium in Livy’s AUC.’ in: Lateiner, D. and D. Spatharas (eds.), The Ancient Emotion Disgust. Oxford University Press, 2017: 175-88.*

16. ‘Cadmea proles: Identity and Intertext in the Hercules Furens’. Classical Journal (2016) 111.3: 303-16.*

17. ‘Narrative and Notice in Livy’s Fourth Decade: The Case of Scipio Africanus.’ Classical Antiquity (2014) 33.1: 102-29.*

18. ‘Citation and the Dynamics of Tradition in Livy’s AUC.’ Histos 7 (2013): 21-47. An earlier version appeared in Histos 5 Working Papers 2011.04.

19. ‘Introduction.’ (with Brockliss, W., P. Chaudhuri, and K. Wasdin.) In: Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition. Yale Classical Studies 36; Cambridge University Press, 2012: 1-16.*

20. ‘Intertextuality and Source Criticism in the Scipionic Trials.’ In: W. Polleichtner (ed.) Livy and Intertextuality. Trier, 2010: 93-133.

Encyclopedia Entries

1. R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. Huebner (eds.) Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Blackwell-Wiley, 2012: ‘Cornelius Scipio Africanus, P. (RE 343),’ ‘Fasti of Magistrates,’ ‘Imperium’ (entry updated 2018).

Reviews

1. Levene, D. S. ed. 2023. Livy: Fragments and Periochae. Volume I: Fragments, Citations, Testimonia; Vol. II: Periochae 1–45. Oxford University Press. Classical Review 76.1 (2026): 157-161.

2. Beltramini, Luca, ed. 2020. Commento al libro XXVI di Tito Livio. Pisa: Edizioni ETS. Histos 17 (2023) cxxxi–cxxxv.

3. D. Gargola, The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and Its Spaces. UNC Press, 2017. AJP (2018): 351-3.

4. B. Straumann. Crisis and constitutionalism: Roman political thought from the fall of the Republic to the age of revolution. Oxford, 2016. BMCR 2017.01.49.

5. T. J. Cornell et al. (eds.), The Fragments of the Roman Historians. Oxford, 2014. Classical Review (2016) 66.1: 191-6.

6. J. C. Yardley, Livy: Rome’s Italian Wars. Books 6–10. With an Introduction and Notes by Dexter Hoyos. Oxford, 2013. Classical Review (2014) 64.2: 629.

7. J. Briscoe, A Commentary on Livy, Books 41-45. Oxford, 2012. Mnemosyne (2014): 851-3.

8. V. Pagán, Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature. Austin, 2012. Classical Review 64.1 (2014): 153-5.

9. D. Levene, Livy and the Hannibalic War. Oxford, 2010. JRS 101 (2011): 277-8.

10. M. A. Robb, Beyond Populares and Optimates: political language in the late Republic. Historia Einzelsschriften 213. Stuttgart, 2010. BMCR 2011.07.30.

11. S. Pugh, Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism. Farnham; Burlington, VT, 2010. BMCR 2010.12.25.

12. G. D. Farney, Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome. Cambridge, 2007. The Classical Bulletin 85.1 (2010): 24-6.

13. M. R. Pelikan Pittenger, Contested Triumphs: Politics, Pageantry, and Performance in Livy’s Republican Rome. Berkeley, 2008. Classical Review 60.2 (2010): 441-3.

14. D. Hammer, Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination. Norman, 2008. BMCR 2009.12.10.

15. J. Murrell, Cicero and the Roman Republic. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts. Cambridge, 2008. BMCR 2009.08.49.

16. W. J. Tatum, Always I am Caesar. Blackwell, 2008. BMCR 2009.03.56.

17. J. R. W. Prag, Sicilia Nutrix Plebis Romanae: Rhetoric, Law & Taxation in Cicero’s Verrines. London, 2007. BMCR 2009.02.33.

18. C. J. Smith, The Roman Clan: The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology. Cambridge, 2006. BMCR 2006.11.06.

• Co-PI (with P. Chaudhuri), Black Classicists in Texas exhibition, 4/19-12/22/2023.

• Co-PI (with P. Chaudhuri), “Paths to a More Inclusive Classics Ph.D,” funded by the Vice-Provost Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, UT-Austin. 2020-2022.

Television, Radio, and Podcasting

• Producer and Co-Host, Calcutta Arthouse Podcast (funded by the School of Undergraduate Studies, UT-Austin).

• Producer and Co-Host, Inside Classics Podcast (funded by the Classics Everywhere Initiative)

• Guest appearance, Movies We Dig Podcast, ‘Episode 8: Disney’s Hercules (1997)’, ‘Episode 31: The Last Legion (2007)’.

• Panelist, NPR-On Point with Tom Ashbrook, ‘Wild about Westeros: The Enduring Popularity of ‘Game of Thrones’. 9/1/2017.

• Guest appearance, Barbarians Rising. History Channel and October Films. 2016.

Print

• “School Closure Won’t Save AISD – They’ll Harm Austin’s Kids.” Austin American- Statesman, October 1^st, 2025, 7A.

• “Highbrow Advice For Life: Free Time Done Right.” Life and Letters Magazine, Texas Liberal Arts, Spring Issue 2024.

• “Elisa Albert Takes on the Mess and Anger of Our Reproductive Lives,” Lilith Magazine, Summer Issue 2022.

• “Why Voting in Our Local Elections Matter.” Austin American- Statesman, April 30, 2021, 10A.

• ‘Nothing New Under the Sun.’ The Nightwatchman: The Wisden Cricket Quarterly 14, Summer 2016: 56-9.

• ‘Exempla – the good and the bad.’ Epistula, the newsletter of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2016 XI: 8-9.

On-Line

• “Why Livy Matters.” Marginalia Review of Books, Sept. 2, 2022.

• “Know Thyself: On Clare Pollard’s “Delphi”,” LA Review of Books, Aug. 15^th, 2022.

• “Dark Academia: Classics in Alex Michaelides’s “The Maidens” and Mark Prins’s “The Latinist” LA Review of Books, Feb. 14^th, 2022.

• “Sallust at the Insurrection.” SCS Blog, January 5^th, 2021.

• “Holiday Supply Chain Issues of Ancient Rome.” Pasts Present, a JSTOR Daily Column. Dec. 21^st, 2021.

• “This is how you mess with Texas.” CNN, Sept. 8^th, 2021. Selected as one of CNN Opinion 40 “most popular, intriguing and insightful pieces” for 2021.

• “How My Kids Helped Me Stop Hating the Van Gogh Experience.” Hyperallergic, Jul. 21^st, 2021.

• “You’re my governor, Greg Abbott. Why are you endangering my kids?” CNN, Jul. 5^th, 2021.

• w/ P. Chaudhuri and C. MacCormack. “Lessons about the Closure of Howard’s Classics Department.” The Hill, May 18^th, 2021.

• “Underfunding classics and humanities is dangerous.” The Hill, Feb. 27^th, 2021.

• w/ C. Julien, J. Hartelius, and A. Norwood. “Dr Jill Biden Earned the Title – and the Right to Determine Her Identity.” Austin Chronicle, Jan. 1^st, 2021.

• “Trump’s conduct in the wake of election uncertainty is unsurprising.” The Hill, Nov. 6^th, 2020.

• “A Female VP: What’s Ambition Got To Do With It?” Women’s E-News, Aug. 4^th, 2020.

• “I was a foreign student. Kicking them out is shortsighted and cruel.” The Guardian, July 11^th, 2020.

• “Children will be OK after COVID-19, just as I was after the Gulf War” USA TODAY, April 30^th, 2020.

• “Why did Game of Thrones Cast Aside its Objectified Women?” Independent, May 20^th, 2019.

• ‘The Ancient History behind Game of Thrones.’ BBC History Extra, July 13^th, 2017.

• ‘Legendary! The Aeneid’s Tapestry of Lies.’ Eidolon, Nov. 14^th, 2016.

• ‘Doubling Down on Student Presentations: How to get first-year students to listen and learn from each other’s projects.’ The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 17^th, 2015.

• Cricket and Roman Exemplarity. Occasional series for Fifteen Eighty Four: Academic Perspectives from Cambridge University Press.

a. ‘Cricket and Roman Rhetoric’ Oct. 16^th, 2014.

b. ‘Kevin Pietersen and the Romans: The Cycle of History.’ Oct. 21^st, 2014.

c. ‘Cricket, Bodyline, and the Romans.’ Feb. 20^th, 2015.

• ‘Game of Thrones: much more than blood and bosoms’ the Guardian, Apr. 28^th, 2013.

• ‘From one storm to another: A Roman view on hurricane Sandy and the Presidential elections’. (with P. Chaudhuri), The Huffington Post, Nov. 5^th, 2012