My primary area of research is historiography in the ancient and medieval world. I am interested in looking at the literary elements and merits of historical texts, with particular focus on the role of narrative and the practice of narratology as a critical discipline.
I am also interested in the way historical texts serve as foundational pieces around which communities organize their society and literature, the best examples of this being the Bible, the Homeric corpus of The Iliad and The Odyssey, and Arthurian myth. My research looks at the way later works incorporate these foundational works, and how they maintain a historical dialogue which is either in conjunction or dysjunction with their predecessors: thus my interest in the Greek historians as
a sequence of writers in relation to one another.
I am also an adjunct professor of English at Brooklyn College, where I teach English 1: Composition.

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