She received a B.A. in Classics from the University of Toronto (1991) and a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard (1997). Her research areas include Greek and Roman comedy, women in antiquity and Latin literature, and her interests lie in literary criticism, social history and ancient dramaturgy. Her work focuses on close readings of Greek and Latin texts in their historical and cultural context with a view to recapturing the range of meanings available to their original audiences. She has published on Plautus, Menander and Roman poetry and has a book in press on the representation of women in Menander. Her current project is a book-length commentary. She has taught for three years at the University of Illinois and six years at the University of Colorado at Boulder.