Dissertation Title: What the Shepherds Sing: Local Identity in the Bucolic Idylls of Theocritus.
Advisor: Jenny Strauss Clay

Ben has published 'Germanicus, Nero and the Incognito King in Tacitus' Annals 2.13 and 13.25', Classical Journal 110 (2015) 313-31, and is now working on 'Poetic and geographical organisation in the Catalogue of Ships' with Jenny Strauss Clay and Courtney Evans.  His latest non-classical publication is Georgic Fantasy, with illustrations by John Woodman.