After twenty years teaching Classics in schools, I completed a PhD at King's College London on Abraham Cowley's 7000-line Latin poem Plantarum Libri Sex (1668), and came to Exeter in 2019 as a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, working on the anthologies of Latin verse produced by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to mark major state occasions in the early modern period. Based in the English department, I teach on the Desire and Power and Renaissance and Revolution modules, where I have a particularly interest in exploring the range of interactions between early modern English texts and their classical predecessors.