Degrees

Books

• Petrarchan Love and the English Renaissance, Oxford UP, 2022.
• Introduction and translation of Book 24 in Nonnus of Panopolis, Tales of Dionysus, ed. William Levitan and Stanley Lombardo, University of Michigan Press, 2022.
• Petrarch's English Laurels, 1475-1700, with Jackson Campbell Boswell, Ashgate, 2012
• The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: 1550-1660, with Robert Cummings and Stuart Gillespie, Oxford University Press, 2010
• Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
• Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance, Yale University Press, 1999
• The Idea of the Renaissance, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991
  with William Kerrigan
• Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition, Yale University Press, 1985
• The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry, Yale University Press, 1978

Recent Articles

• “Epigram into Lyric: Francis Bacon Translates from the Greek Anthology,” Arion (2019)
• “The Passion of Dido: Aeneid 4 in English Translation to 1700,” in Virgil and His Translators, ed. Susanna Braund and Zara Martirosova Torlone, Oxford UP (2018)
• “Narcissus in the Boudoir: Aretino’s Petrarchan Postures,” in Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton, ed. John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
• “Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton,” in A Companion to English Renaissance Poetry, ed. Catherine Bates (Wiley Blackwell, 2018)
• “Classical Greek Tragedy and Shakespeare,” Classical Receptions Journal 9 (2017)
• “The Classical Background of Spenser’s View,” Spenser Studies 32 (2017)
• “Epic Annnoyance: Homer to Palladas,” Arion (2016)
• “New Directions: Seneca and The Spanish Tragedy,” in The Spanish Tragedy: A Critical Reader, ed. Thomas Rist (Bloomsbury, 2016)
• “Translating the Rest of Ovid: The Exile Poems,” in Early Modern Cultures of Translation, ed. Karen Newman and Jane Tylus (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
• “Tragedy” in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: 1558-1660, ed. Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie (Oxford University Press, 2015)
• "Hero and Leander in Bed (and the Morning After)," English Literary Renaissance (2015)
• "Fame, Eternity, and Shakespeare's Romans," in Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics, ed. John Cox and Patrick Gray (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• "Love Poems in Sequence: The Amores from Petrarch to Goethe" in Handbook to the Reception of Ovid, ed. Carole E. Newlands and John Miller (Wiley Blackwell, 2014)
• “Shakespeare” in A Companon to Plutarch, ed. Mark Beck (Wiley Blackwell, 2014)
• “Classical Translation” in The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500-1640, ed. Andrew Hadfield (2013)
• “Edward Fairfax and the Translation of Vernacular Epic” in Tudor Translation, ed. Fred Schurink (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
• “Ovid’s Witchcraft” in Yale Classical Studies (Cambridge, 2012)
• “Classical Love Elegy in the Renaissance (and After)” in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford, 2010)
• “Ovid and Shakespeare” in A Companion to Ovid, ed. Peter Knox (Wiley Blackwell, 2009)
• “Spartacus and the Second Part of the Soul” in The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick, ed. Jerold J. Abrams (Kentucky, 2007)
• “Wyatt and Petrarch: Italian Fashion at the Court of Henry VIII,” Annali d’Italianistica (2004)

Awards and Prizes

• Beta of Virginia Phi Beta Kappa Book Award (2001)
• Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, with William Kerrigan (Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1990)
• James Holly Hanford Award, with William Kerrigan (Milton Society of America, 1986)
• NEH Fellow ship for Independent Research (1980)
• Theron Rockwell Field Prize (Yale, 1976)