Curriculum Vitae

Work:

• from 1999 Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-operative Society (co-operative policy officer in Membership & Corporate Marketing Department)

Education:

• 1994-2000 Oxford University, Classical Languages and Literature (LMH - D.Phil.) (Michael-Foster-Scholarship)
• 1994 "Erstes Staatsexamen" in Latin and Greek, including "Zulassungsarbeit" on Sprecher und Adressaten in Kallimachos' Hymnen (equivalent "lower First")
• 1991/92 Oxford University (Balliol - Matriculated Postgraduate Visiting Student)
• 1988-1994 Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Freiburg, Germany, "Klassische Philologie"
• 1988 "Abitur" (A-levels) in Ancient Greek, Mathematics, History, Latin (aggregate mark: equivalent A-)
• 1981-88 Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium, Hannover, Germany

Teaching appointments:

• 1997/98 Latin Reading Skills (Lit.Hum., MILC programme: level 2)
• TT 1997 Tutorials (St. Catherine's College: Vergil's Eclogues, Ovid's Metamorphoses 1 for Honour Moderations, English)
• 1996/97 Latin Reading Skills (Lit.Hum., MILC programme: level 1)
• HT 1996 Tutorials (St. Edmund Hall: Vergil's Aeneid for Final Honours School of English)
• 1995/96 Latin Reading Skills (Lit.Hum., MILC programme: levels 2 and 5)
• MT 1995 Reading Tuition (LMH: Aischylos' Oresteia)
• 1992/93 Greek Reading Class (Archaeology Dept., Freiburg)
• 1991 Latin for Beginners (Classics Dept., Freiburg: vacation course)

Publications:

• forthcoming 11/99 "Review of M. Asper �Onomata Allotria� Stuttgart: 1997" Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS), London
• 1998 "Contextualizing the Voice in Callimachus' �Hymn to Zeus�" Materiali e Discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici (MD), Pisa - vol.41

Papers:

• MT 1996 "Shifting Views on Callimachus' Hymns" (Cameron and his Critics, one day conference, Oxford)
• TT 1996 "Issues of Authority and Fictionality in Callimachus' Hymns (Classics Menagerie, one day conference, Oxford)
• 03/1996 "Influential Endings: Homer and beyond" (UC, St. Barbara)
• HT 1996 "Influential Endings: Homer and beyond" (Languages and Literature Sub-Faculty Seminar)
• TT 1995 "Closure in Homeric Epic" (Classical Languages and Literature Work-in-Progress Seminar)

Positions of Responsibility:

• 1997 Co-responsible for the Home Pages of Graduate Classicists at Oxford (Echo) and of the Graduate Committee of OUSU
• 1995-97 Graduate Students' Representative to the Sub-Faculty of Language and Literature (Lit.Hum.)
• 1995-97 Graduate Students' Representative for the Sub-Faculty of Languages and Literature (Lit.Hum.) to the Graduate Committee of Oxford University Student Union
• MT 1996 Organizer of the Classical Languages and Literature Graduate Work-in-Progress Seminar
• MT 1995-TT 1996 Co-organizer of the Classical Languages and Literature Graduate Work-in-Progress Seminar
• 1990/91 Elected Students' Representative on University Board ("Grosser Senat") and thus member of the student union ("Allgemeiner Studentischer Ausschuss (Asta)") for "Buendnisliste Verfasste StudentInnenschaft"
• 1989-91 Elected Students' Representative on Faculty Board (Rat der Philosophischen Fakultaet II, Universitaet Freiburg)
• 1988-91 Elected Member of the Body representing the Students of the Department (Institut fuer Klassische Philologie, Universitaet Freiburg) and Representative to the Conference of Departmental Student Bodies ("Fachbereichskonferenz"), which elects and advises the political wing of the Student Union ("unabhaengiger Allgemeiner Studentischer Ausschuss (u-AStA)")

Travel:

• 03-04/96 University of California, Berkeley and St. Barbara
• 03/89 Northern Italy (Mantova, Padova, Vicenza, Ferrara, Urbino, Perugia, Arezzo, Mentone)
• 05-08/88 Firenze and Rome
• 04/87 Greece (Athens, Peloponese, Crete)