About
Originally from High Bridge, New Jersey, Robert earned a BA in Classics and Philosophy at Rutgers University, followed by an MA in Classics at the University of Maryland. His research interests involve, for the most part, Latin literature, gender, sexualities, eating, and humor. He has published on Ovid's Erysichthon (in Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity, eds. E. Eidinow and L. Maurizio) and the reception of this hungry figure (in International Journal of the Classical Tradition and Antigone).
Robert's dissertation, Seneca and the History of Roman Eating, argues that the younger Seneca incorporates food-related elements from a variety of Roman writers and genres into his text, with the goal of appropriating them as a tool of Stoic pedagogy. In so doing he reconciles Stoicism with the decadent flavors of Roman literature.
Robert's teaching career includes stints at Montgomery College, the University of Maryland (College Park), and the Alexandria City Public School system.
He is also enthusiastic about vintage guitar amplifiers, records, cats, and cycling, and has spent time as, inter alia, a tour guide in Washington, DC and a touring bass player.
