📣 Places on @jactdurham.bsky.social are filling up fast 📣 Join us in July at St John’s College, Durham University for a week of #Latin and/or #AncientGreek! New for 2026: Classical Civilisation - Women: The Reality Behind the Myth! Register online: www.durhamglss.org

Lovely to see this out (in FirstView): "Beyond gay history month: queering the past with ‘Queering the Past(s)’" (tinyurl.com/4vrskdw2), my new article in the Journal of Classics Teaching about using resources from queeringthepasts.com to provide LGBTQ+ education in [1/2]

Lovely to receive my author copies of CP 120.3, containing my recent article on the Carmina Priapea, obscenity and space!

Lovely to get my author copies of the Alaudae translation cooked up by Michael Lombardi-Nash. I hadn’t read my translation (of Issue 7) since I sent it off in 2021, so it was delightful to revisit it this morning!

A big thank-you to @joewatstein.bsky.social for pulling this together!

Lovely to see this out in the world: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2025/0.... My report of a workshop I organised at the 2024 CA on the intersection between EDI and Latin language teaching, out now in the @cucdbulletin.bsky.social Read for an overview of the discussions had, but also for a lot of 1/2

New issue of Classical Philology Vol. 120, No. 3 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2025/... @chicagojournals.bsky.social

Very happy to see this out in the world!

It’s publication day! My new article, ‘Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea’ is out now in volume 120.3 of Classical Philology. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Clearly, ‘tis the season, for it is once again proofs’ day! This time, I am working on proofs for a short chapter, ‘Classical Cavafy and Cavafy among the Classicists’, for the forthcoming Bloomsbury volume, ‘Cavafy as World Literature’! Due out at the end of this year.

It is once again proofs day! This time for my piece on queering Latin love poetry in the Underworld, out in this year’s JRS. Hell is Other Poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in Queer Elysium

Off to Warwick to talk about some nice(ish) things in Lucan! Thanks for the invitation @joewatstein.bsky.social 😊

Proofs day! Forthcoming in July in Classical Philology: 'Down the Gardem Path: Divinity, Space and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea'.

A nice little haul of discount philology from this weekend’s shopping trip:

Hello! My new article is now out in Arethusa: '(Re)Producing The Egyptian: Arboricultural Cultivation Of The Roman State In Lucan’s Civil War'. I consider the epic's tree imagery as metaphor for the Roman state, pointing to the protagonists' attempts at cultivation & propagation.

After a wonderful weekend with @esthermeijer.bsky.social in London (seeing sites and enjoying theatre), I’m quite proud of my wide-ranging haul—some new, some second, third, fourth or fifth hand!

Join me & the rest of the team this summer in Durham for the 31st JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School! Who’s planning on attending? Please share widely 🙏 @joewatstein.bsky.social @nicholsone99.bsky.social @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social @workingclassicists.bsky.social

After a fairly heavy week, I’m very excited to be gifting myself with the new(ish) Kristen’s to enjoy over the next few weeks!

Had the rare experience yesterday of receiving wonderful peer reviews from reviewer 1 *and* reviewer 2 for a forthcoming piece! Apparently, my work is “stunning”, “stellar”, “exquisite” and “radical”. Words to be remembered when reviewer 2 returns to their usual tricks…

Very excited to be speaking at the Oxford Classics Sub-Faculty Lang. and Lit. seminar on Friday, with a paper about Arachne, Ovid, Spiders and Roland Barthes!

Making slides for my lecture on the poetics of sexual identity in Propertius, and I’m very concerned by this recommendation of image by PowerPoint…

I took a brief break from my ongoing cross-stitch project to do a little mosaic-style image of Leda and the Swan for my office!

At this point, I am used to the idea that OCTs come in many different shapes and materials, but the green of the dust jacket for this copy of Heyworth’s Propertius is upsetting… (I have seen *other* copies of Heyworth’s Propertius than are a more typical shade)

Had a lovely day in the Wilko sales, and then came home to make curry, breads and raspberry crumble

Yesterday, the sky may have been grey and dreary, but at least the Gay Gods have been blessing my tomato harvest