She received her B.A. at UCLA and her Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Her research interests include Greek literature and myth, women in classical Greek medicine, and gender violence in the ancient and modern world. She has published on characterizations of the maternal-fetal relationship in the Hippocratic Corpus and on strategies for teaching about rape in classical texts. Currently, she is writing a book entitled Birthing Bodies, Birthing Culture: Rhetorics of Reproduction in Archaic and Classical Greece. This book contextualizes birthing experiences and practices in ancient Greece and examines how archaic and classical authors use childbirth and reproductive imagery to engage with questions about the quality of human life, the efficacy of social practices, and the ability of cultural products, such as poetry and drama, to compensate for the fact of human mortality.