I am Bowra Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Wadham College and Professor of Latin Language and Literature in the University of Oxford.​

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My main area of research is Latin prose literature, especially the Roman historians from the perspectives of language, style, methodology, transmission, and influence. Other interests: Latin literature of the late Republic and early Principate; the Augustan period in all its aspects; Roman constitutional history; and  the classical tradition, including the transmission of Latin texts, the editing and textual criticism of Latin texts, palaeography, and the history of scholarship.

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I took my undergraduate degree from the University of Western Australia and my doctorate from St John's College in the University of Cambridge. Since graduating I have held appointments in e.g. Munich (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and LMU), Cambridge, Oxford (Visiting Fellow of All Souls College), the British School at Rome (where I was a member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History, and Letters), and the University of Nottingham, where I was Professor of Classics before moving to Oxford in 2025.​​