From University of St. Andrews website: "My current work is focused broadly on the Greek literature of the Roman Empire and on the Greek and Roman novel. My new book Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, is forthcoming with CUP. I am working particularly on Philostratus; also on a new project on landscape in ancient culture and literature." Interests include: Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire, including the Greek and Latin novels and early Christian narrative literature; ancient athletics; the literature and culture of the symposium; ancient miscellanistic and technical writing.