I am primarily a Latinist, but my research has led me to work on a variety of Greek as well as Roman texts. I am particularly interested in how ancient authors look at the history of the literary tradition to which they are contributing. The study of the Greeks' and Romans' perspectives on the literary past is a useful critical tool to investigate ancient literary phenomena, but also extra-literary factors that contributed to the shaping of those pespectives. I show this in a monograph on Horace as a literary historian, which I am finalising, and in a volume which I have recently co-edited.

Through my research I developed an expertise in Augustan poetry, ancient literary criticism, issues of genre and the intellectual life of the late Roman Republic and early Principate. Other areas which I covered, by working on papers I delivered or published, include Roman satire, Roman love poetry and cultural memory in Greek tragedy. 

Finally, during my time in Dublin, I developed an interest in Neo-Latin writings. I collaborated on a translated and commented edition of the works of Antóin Mac Bruaidedha, a seventeenth-century Irish historian involved in the defence of Gaelic culture during the English dominion over Ireland.