Essays
2021
‘The Spanish Civil War: a nostalgia of hope’, OUPblog, 15 May
2020
‘Fascinating Rhythm’, an essay for the Library of Congress National Recording Registry
2019
‘“The forewarned journey back”: Katabasis as Nostos in the poetry of Seamus Heaney’, in Stephen Harrison, Fiona Macintosh, Claire Kenward & Helen Eastman (eds), Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses (Oxford: OUP), 205-22
‘Little Eternities: Henry James’s Horatian Sense of Time’, Arion 27.1 (Spring/Summer): 21-41
2018
2017
‘“All the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy”: Wilde’s ‘Epistola’ and the Euripidean Christ’, in Kathleen Riley, Alastair J. L. Blanshard & Iarla Manny (eds), Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity (Oxford: OUP), 175-93
‘Introduction: Taking Parnassus to Piccadilly’, in Kathleen Riley, Alastair J. L. Blanshard & Iarla Manny (eds.), Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity (Oxford: OUP), 1-15
2013
Entries on ‘Heracles in Greek Tragedy’ and ‘Euripides’ Heracles’, in Hanna Roisman (ed.), Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
‘A Kind of Salvation: My Perfect Mind’, Vulpes Libris, 29 March
2012
‘She danced like a lilac flame: the other Astaire’, OUPblog, 29 April
2010
‘A Pylades for the Twentieth Century: Fred Astaire and the Aesthetic of Bodily Eloquence’, in Fiona Macintosh (ed.), The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance (Oxford: OUP), 99-119
2004
‘Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe: Male Heroism Deconstructed’, in Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh & Amanda Wrigley (eds), Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium (Oxford: OUP), 113-41
2003
1999
‘A Royal Malady: The Staging of the Lost Self in Euripides’ Herakles and Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III, Classicum 25.1: 10-20
1996
‘A Stylistic Study of the Orpheus and Eurydice Story in Georgics IV’, Classicum 22.1/2: 13-18