He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003. He primarily researches Greek poetry of the Hellenistic period, and especially epigram. His first book, Look Who’s Talking: Innovations in Voice and Identity in Hellenistic Epigram, attempts to define the generic conventions by which readers made sense of epigram before the Hellenistic period, and then explores how those same conventions were manipulated and repurposed by authors such as Nossis and Callimachus once epigram had migrated from the stone to the page. He is currently revising the Greek Anthology for the Loeb Classical Library; the first volume should be out by the end of the year, and he is at work on the second volume, which will include sepulchral epigrams. He is eager to learn more about Greek views of mortality, and especially to situate his literary understanding in a physical context.