She received her Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University. Her research focuses on the literary aspects of scientific and technical texts from the ancient world, the interaction of verbal and visual elements in those texts, the interplay between material and textual objects in ancient science, and the dissemination of ancient scientific texts. Her current book project, “Technical Ekphrasis in Ancient Science: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome,” traces the literary techniques used in the textual representation of technological artifacts from Hellenic Greece to late-ancient Rome.