Publications

Books

Biblical Epic and Rhetorical Paraphrase in Late Antiquity, ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs l6 (Liverpool: Cairns, 1985)

Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri: A Commentary (with David Konstan) Bryn Mawr Latin Commentaries (Bryn Mawr, 1985)

The Jeweled Style: Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell U.P., 1989)

Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The Liber Peristephanon of Prudentius (Ann Arbor: Michigan U.P., 1993)

The Humblest Sparrow: The Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (Ann Arbor: Michigan U.P, 2009)

Venantius Fortunatus, Poems, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 46 (Cambridge,: MA: Harvard University Press, 2017)

Articles

“The Prologue to Avitus’ De Spiritalis Historiae Gestis: Christian Poetry and Poetic License,” Traditio 36 (1980), 399-407

“A Note on the Hunting Horn (bucina) in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity,” Classical Philology 77 (1982), 248-52

“Rhetoric and Poetic Imitation in Avitus’ Account of the Crossing of the Red Sea (De spiritalis historiae gestis 5.371-702),” Traditio 39 (1983), 29-80

“The Mosella of Ausonius: An Interpretation,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 114 (1984), 343-53; reprinted in Manfred Joachim Lossau, ed., Ausonius, Wege der Forschung 652 (Darmstadt, 1991), 250-64

“Horace Satires 2.5: Restrained Indignation,” American Journal of Philology 105 (1984), 426-33

“The ‘First Sighting’ Theme in the Old Testament Poetry of Late Antiquity,” Illinois Classical Studies 10 (1985), 139-55

“Paulinus Poem 11, Virgil’s First Eclogue and the Limits of Amicitia,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 (1985), 271-82

“Tacitus’ Account of the Revolt of Boudicca (Annals 14.29-39) and the Assertion of Libertas in Neronian Rome,” American Journal of Philology 109 (l988), 118-32

“The Treatment of Narrative in Late Antique Literature: Ammianus Marcellinus (16.10), Rutilius Namatianus and Paulinus of Pella,” Philologus 132 (1988), 181-95

“The Use of Myth in Latin Epithalamia from Statius to Venantius Fortunatus,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 119 (1989), 321-48

“Reading Horace’s Ode to Postumus (2.l4),” Latomus 50 (1991), 371-375

“Barbarians in Gaul: The Response of the Poets,” Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity? J. Drinkwater & H. Elton, edd. (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1992), 97-106

“St. Martin and the Leper: Narrative Variation in the Martin Poems of Venantius Fortunatus,” Journal of Medieval Latin 4 (1994), 82-100

“The Description of Landscape in the Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus: the Moselle Poems,” Traditio 49 (1994), 1-22

“Martin Meets Maximus: The Meaning of a Late Roman Banquet,” Revue des études augustiniennes 41 (1995), 91-111

“The Latin Literature of Late Antiquity” in Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, edd. Frank A. Mantello and A.G. Rigg (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1996), 537-46

“Bibeldichtung,” “Carmen de Martyrio Maccabaeorum,” “De Iona,” “De Sodoma,” “In Genesim ad Leonem papam,” “Marius Victor, Claudius,” “Paulinus of Pella,” “Paulinus of Périgueux,” Der neue Pauly.

“Letters from a Poet to a Saint: The Correspondence of Venantius Fortunatus with St. Radegund and Agnes,” in New England Classical Journal 25 (1998) 107-13

“Claudian,” in Glen Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar (edd.), A Guide to the Late Antique World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999) 279-80

“Prudentius: Importance for Early Christian Art and Archaeology,” in Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology

“Fortunatus’ Elegy on the Death of Galswintha (Carm. 6.5),” in R. Mathisen and D. Shanzer (eds.), Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul: Revisiting the Sources (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), 298-312.

“Rome Personified, Rome Epitomized: Representations of Rome in the Poetry of the Early Fifth Century,” American Journal of Philology 122 (2001) 533-65.

“The Last Epic of Classical Antiquity: Generic Continuity and Innovation in the Vita Sancti Martini of Venantius Fortunatus,” Transactions of the American Philological Association, 131 (2001) 257-85

“Creation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Latin Poets of Late Antiquity,” Arethusa 35 (2002) 403-15

“Venantius Fortunatus’ Life of St. Martin,” Traditio 57 (2002) 129-87.

“Vergil and the Gospels: The Evangeliorum Libri IV of Juvencus,” in R. Rees (ed.), Vergil in the Fourth Century (London: Duckworth, 2004) 47-61

“Bringing Up the Rear: Continuity and Change in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity,” in Wim Verbaal, Yanick Maes, and Jan Papy (eds.), LatinitasPerennis, Volume I: The Continuity of Latin Literature (Leiden, 2007) 141-67

“Latin Poetry,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) 628-40

“Venantius Fortunatus and the Uses of Travel in Late Latin Poetry,” in Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer and Petra Schierl (eds.), LateinischePoesie der Spätantike: Internationale Tagung in Castelen bei Augst, 11.-13. Oktober 2007 (Basel: Schwabe, 2009) 293-306

“Late Roman Elegy,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2010) 85-100

“Avienus,” “Avitus,” “Biblical epic,” “Corippus,” “Endelechius,” “Fortunatus,” “Prudentius,” in Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski (eds.), Virgil Encyclopedia

“Rhetoric and the Natalicia of Paulinus of Nola,” Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica 95 (2010) 53-68

“Light, Color, and Visual Illusion in the Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 65-66 (2011-12) 113-20

“Venantius Fortunatus and Gregory of Tours: Poetry and Patronage,” in Alexander Callendar Murray, ed., A Companion to Gregory of Tours (Leiden: Brill, 2015) 35-59

“Apollonius of Tyre,” “Arator,” “Ausonius,” “Carmen ad uxorem,” “Commodian,” “Endelechius,” “Epic, Latin,” “Felix of Nantes,” “Galswintha,” “Genre,” “Gogo,” “Jeweled Style,” “Juvencus,” “Liberatus,” “Marius Victorius,” “Myth in Latin,” “Paulinus (author of Epigramma),” “Paulinus of Pella,””Paulinus of Périgueux,” “Phoenix, ” “Porfyrius,” “Prudentius,” “Rusticius Helpidius,” “Rutilius Namatianus,” “Sedulius,” “Severus of Malaga,” “Typology in Literature,” “Venantius Fortunatus,” “Verecundus of Junca,” articles for the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

“Friedrich Mehmel, Pompatic Poetics, and Claudian’s Epithalamium for the Marriage of Honorius and Maria,” forthcoming in Décadence : ‘Decline and Fall’ or ‘Other Antiquity” (Heidelberg, 2014) 115-32.

“Stylistic Variation in the Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus,” in Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard and Annick Stoehr-Monjou, eds., Studium in libris: Mélanges en honneur de Jean-Louis Charlet (Paris,  2016) 169-82.

“Lactantius’ Phoenix and Late Latin Poetics,” for Jas´ Elsner and Jesús Hernández Lobato, eds, The Poetics of Late Latin Literature, Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2017)) 373-90.

“Venantius Fortunatus on Poetry and Song,” Materiali e discussion per l’analisi dei testi classici 78 (2017) 83-103.

“Maximianus,” Introduction, A.M. Juster, trans. The Elegies of Maximianus(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

“The Influence of Ovid’s Metamorphosesin Late Antiquity: Phaethon and the Palace of the Sun,” in Ovid in Late Antiquity, Studi e testi tardoantichi16, ed. Franca Ela Consolino (Turnhout, 2018) 267-292.

“Latin Epic,” in Companion to Late Antique Literature(Oxford U.P.), 227-33.

Reviews

Catullus–Tibullus–Pervigilium Veneris, 2nd ed., revised by G.P. Goold, New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 18 (1991) 42

G. Schmeling, Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (with Professor David Konstan), American Journal of Philology 113(1992) 470-73

J.M. Pizarro, A Rhetoric of the Scene: Dramatic Narrative in the Early Middle Ages, Speculum 67(1992) 1029-30

P. Salway, The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain, New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 22 (1994) 81-82

M. Flieger, Interpretationen zum Bibeldichter Iuvencus: Gethsemane, Festnahme Jesu und Kaiphasprozess (4, 478-565), Gnomon 68 (1996) 461-62

F. Stella, La poesia carolingia latina a tema biblico, Journal of Medieval Latin 5 (1995) 267-70

R. Fichtner, Taufe und Versuchung Jesu in den Evangeliorum libri quattuor des Bibeldichters Juvencus (1, 346-408), Gnomon 69 (1997) 556-58

J. Harries, Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of Rome, Classical Philology 91 (1996) 196-98

C.E.V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers, In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini, New England Classical Journal 24 (1997) 119-20

L. Webster and M. Brown (edd.), The Transformation of the Roman World, AD 400-900, New England Classical Journal 25 (1998) 155-56

L.R. García, La poesía de Prudencio, Classical Review 49 (1999) 268-69

F. Felgentreu, Claudians praefationes: Bedingungen, Beschreibungen und Wirkungen einer poetischen Kleinform, Classical Review 50 (2000) 604-5

S. Labarre, Le manteau partagé: Deux métamorphoses de la Vie de saint Martin chez Paulin de Périgueux (Ve s.) et Venance Fortunat (VIe s.), Gnomon 264-65.

D. Trout, Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems, New England Classical Journal 28 (2001) 242-43.

F.E. Consolino (ed.), Letteratura e propaganda nell’ occidente Latino da Augusto ai regni barbarici, Classical Review 52 (2002) 85-87.

Ralph W. Mathisen, People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity, New England Classical Journal 31 (2004) 199-201.

Sabine Horstmann, Das Epithalamium in der lateinischen Literatur derSpätantike , Gnomon 80 (2008) 564-66

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study, New England Classical Journal 33 (2006) 248-50.

Wolfgang Fels (trans.), Venantius Fortunatus, Gelegentlich Gedichte: Das lyrische Werk, Die Vita des hl. Martin, Catholic Historical Review 94 (2008) 325-6.

Marc Mastrangelo, The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul, New England Classical Journal 35 (2008) 317-9

Oliver Ehlen, Venantius-Interpetationen: Rhetorische und generische Transgressionen beim “neuen Orpheus,” Gnomon 84 (2012) 755-6

Carmen Arcidiacono, Il centone Virgiliano cristiano “Versus ad gratiam Domini”: Introduzione, edizione critica, traduzione e commento, Gnomon 85 (2013) 373-5

Nils Rücker, Ausonius und Paulinus von Nola: Textgeschichte und literarische Form der Briefgedichte 21 und 22 des Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Gnomon 86 (2014)

Anike Lisa Kleinschmidt, Ich-Entwürfe in spätantiker Dichtung: Ausonius, Paulinus von Nola und Paulinus von Pella, Gnomon 87 (2015) 758-9

Dennis Trout, Damasus of Rome: The Epigraphic Poetry, Classical Review (2016) 456-7.

Alessia Fasina and Carlo M. Lucarini, eds., Antonia Betitia Proba, Cento Vergilanus, Gnomon 89 (2017) 276-7.

Michael Müller, Tod und Auferstehung Jesu Christi bei Iuvencus (IV 570-812): Untersuchungen zu Dichtkunst, Theologie und Zweck der Evangeliarium Libri Quattuor  (Stuttgart, 2016), Gnomon, 90 (2018) 368-70.

Hedwig Schmalzgruber, Studien zum Bibelepos des sogenannten Cyprianus Gallus, mit einem Kommentar zu Gen. 1-362, Gnomon, 90 (2018) 565-567.