Education

• City University of New York Graduate Center. Classics, PhD, 2006; MA, 2001.
• Pratt Institute. Masters of Library Science, May 2011.
• Swarthmore College. Classics, BA, 1992.

Teaching Experience

• Sarah Lawrence College: Visiting Professor of Classics, Spring 2012 (Beginning Ancient Greek), Spring 2017 (Beginning Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek History), Fall 2017-Spring 2018 (Full time with overload: Beginning Ancient Greek, Beginning Latin, Ancient Greek and Roman Comedy, Greek History, Independent Studies: Cicero and Roman Political Rhetoric, Constructing the Ancient Cithara). Served as sole member of Classics Department from Nov. 2017-May 2018. Spring, 2023: Beginning Latin. Fall 2023-Spring 2024: Beginning Greek. Fall 2023: Understanding Ancient Eros. Spring 2024: Imperialism and Servitude: Ancient Slave Rebellions
• Drew University, Adjunct Professor: Introductory to Advanced Latin and Greek language and literature, Slavery in the Classical World, Classical Myth, Classical Drama, Classical Art and Architecture, Women in the Classical World, Decadence in Ancient Rome, Thesis Supervision. Fall 2011-Winter 2016.
• The City University of New York: 1992-2012:
  • Queens College, Reading through Classical Literature (Classics 150: Survey of Greek and Roman Literature in Translation), Ancient Greek Tragedy and Epic (Classics 250), Fall 2010-Spring 2012. Online/Hybrid Instruction Teacher Development Course, 2011.
  • City College of New York, Greek and Latin Roots of Words, Virgil’s Aeneid (3rd semester Latin), 2nd Semester Latin. Fall 2009-Spring 2011.
  • Brooklyn College, Classical Cultures (Core Curriculum), Spring 2008- 2009
  • Hunter College, Classical Mythology, Supervisor Tamara Green, Dept. Head, Hunter Classics Dept. Fall 1999-Spring 2004.
  • Bernard Baruch College (CUNY), Remedial English Composition, Summer 1992.
• TEAK Fellowship Program for Gifted 7th and 8th graders. Introductory Latin, Spring Intensive, Summer Institute, 2008-2009. Year-round TEAK Latin tutor,2008-2009
• Stern College (Yeshiva University), Adjunct Professor, Introductory Latin, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
• Rutgers University: Lecturer Latin 1, and 5th semester Latin Elegy. Fall 2005.
• ESL Classroom teacher:
  • Institute of Modern Languages, New Orleans,LA, 1996.
  • Rennert Bilingual, NY, NY, 1992-1993.
• Private Tutor, Ancient Greek and Latin, Italian, French, ESL, 1992-present.

Experience in Editing, Research and Copyright

• Researched, created and formatted footnotes and bibliography for book “Food City” by deceased author Joy Santlofer, (on the history of food in New York City), Norton, 2016.
• Hunter College Women’s Studies Collective: Permissions and Bibliographic Assistant: Fall 2012-Jan.2014. Acquired copyright permissions for quotations used in new edition of Women’s Studies textbook; regularized bibliographic format.

• Cataloguer and Organizer, Classics Library, Prof. Sarah Pomeroy; Library Reference and Research Assistant, Professor Emeritus Sarah Pomeroy, Hunter College, NY (2008- 2014). Re-organized, catalogued, and damage-assessed private collection; performed library research and acquisition of materials.
• Pratt Institute Twining Fellow (Library Studies), May-June 2010: Florence, Italy. Studied: Book and Print Conservation, Italian Library History, Museum Collection Assessment, History of the Book and Paper Making, Florentine Architecture.
• Assistant, ESP Records: Bernard Stollman, JD. (Executive Director, ESP Records). Performed taxonomy, legal research, cataloging, and intake of new documents. (2009-2010).
• Editor and proofreader: Dee Clayman, Pyrrho the Cynic, Leiden, Brill, 2008.
• Copy Editor, Columbia University Press, 1993-1994.

Experience in Information Science

• Brooklyn College Library, Open Educational Resources Project Information Technologist, Adjunct Librarian and Digital Fellow, Feb. 2015-Present. In this project on alternative textbooks in public education, I have collaborated with librarians, faculty and students to create websites with open-access resources. I have also given presentations on different aspects of OER at CUNY events, and supervised student interns. A sample of websites and archives I have designed and maintained includes:
  • The Journal of a Plague Year: The Brooklyn College COVID-19 Archive
  •  Tour of the Brooklyn College Library Art Collection
  •  Diamond Law Library Printer’s Marks: A StoryMap Tour
  •  Hess Scholar 2021-2022 Digital Humanities Assignments
  •  Dead Girls (English 7320)
  •  Language Loss: Culture Politics and Self (ANTH 3360)
  •  Mapping and GIS Lessons for Poets, Historians, and Scientists
  •  The VHS Activism Archive
• Diamond Law Library of Columbia University, Special & Medieval Collections (Summer 2010). Inventory, cataloging, digitizing and condition assessment. Programmed and designed interactive database of Printers’ Marks in collection (2010- 2011).
• Database of Classical Bibliography. Supervisor: 2001-2008. Acting Director 2006. Research Assistant, 1997-2000: Developed Microsoft Access Database in partnership with L’Année Philologique and CUNY Research Foundation. Supervised hours, workload, and editorial accuracy for team of database editors. Prepared data for workers by programming from WordPress interface into MS Access database. Repaired technical problems and liaised with the IT Department.

Publications

• Longtail Studios: Educational App Creator in Latin Language Learning: Nov. 2014-Present. Wrote and programmed original content for language and cultural education app.
• Book Chapter: “Barbarians or Super-villains? The Persians in Frank Miller’s 300, Greek Vase Painting, and Literature.” Classics in the Comics (Oxford University Press, 2010).
• Oxford Online, Classical Bibliography. (2008-2009). Annotated five bibliographic articles on Classical topics with different scholars as co-editors.
• “Slavery in the Classical Utopia. ”Doctoral Thesis in Classics, City University Graduate Center: October, 2006.

Presentations

• Panelist, “The COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City: Documenting, Commemorating, and Interpreting Its History. “American Historians Association, Annual Meeting Jan. 5 2025
• “The Transformation of the Water Organ: Reactions to the Hydraulis from Hellenistic to Late Antiquity” : the Saving Ancient Studies Conference, July 23, 2023.
• “Gaming and Re-Gaming: Strategies for Automated Tests across LMS Landscapes” : CUNY IT Conference, Dec. 2, 2022.
• “Diamond Printers’ Marks Reboot with Omeka and StoryMaps”: 7th Annual NYCDH Week Feb. 2022.
• “Open Pedagogy Teaching Workshops”: CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy: July 2021
• “Data Visualization with Journal of the Plague Year (Omeka-S Archive)”: 6th Annual NYCDH Week Feb. 2021.
• “Digital Tools for Students as Producers of Public Scholarship” at CUE Conference/OER Showcase October 2020. Digital Discussions: freely-available digital annotation tools such as Hypothes.is, Slack and CUNY Academic Commons Group Forum. Teaching with Maps. Podcast and Video Assignments. Open Publication Platforms.
• “Teaching with Blackboard Collaborate”: Presentation to Brooklyn College English Department March 21, 2020.
• “A Digital Toolbox for Open Pedagogy”: CUNY/SUNY OER Showcase 2019.
• “Hypothes.is and Shiny Apps”: Brooklyn College Faculty Week, May 2018
• “Diamond Printers Marks Database”: 8th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society (2012)
• “Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives.” Program Scholar, Queens Public Library Series: April 2011-December 2012: Performed lectures on classical theatre at public library branches in Queens, NY, in series sponsored by Aquila Theatre (NYU).
• Outreach Panel: “Frank Miller’s 300: Classics in the Comics.” American Philological Association Convention, 2008.

Languages:

• Proficient: Latin, Greek, French, Italian. Basic: German, Russian, Spanish.

Music:

• Flute, Tenor Saxophone

Technical Skills

• Web Design (WordPress, Libguides, Drupal, HTML/CSS) Database Design (PHP & SQL) design, MS Office Suite, Adobe Suite, Usability and Information Surveys, Book and Paper Conservation, Collection Development, Scanning and digitization; MARC 21, AACR2R, RDA, LC cataloging, Global Information Systems Mapmaking.