I am a(n aspiring) writer and classicist, born in Switzerland and raised in London. My interests, and objects of writing, include film, (socio/historical) linguistics, (playful) scholarly discourse, London culture, the history (and future) of Classics as a discipline, and Iranian intellectual history.

Currently a doctoral student in Greek and Latin literature at the University of Basel, I studied Classics at Merton College, Oxford (BA) and Trinity College, Cambridge (MPhil), where I was the Eric Evan Spicer Scholar. My master’s research examined ancient Greek (Hellenistic and imperial) scholarship, exegesis, and criticism, and their literary presentations. My thesis, on ‘obscurity’ (asapheia) as a tool of criticism in writers like Philodemus, Heracleodorus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Pseudo-Longinus, was awarded the Faculty’s Members’ Classical Essay Prize (2025) for best dissertation. My PhD, as part of a larger SNSF-funded project on ancient ‘quotation culture’ (CITE), focusses on forms, methods, and uses of poetic quotation and exegesis in the ancient rhetorical tradition.

My articles and poetry have been published in a range of journals and magazines, including minor literature[s], Wilderness House Literary Review and Babel Magazine, among others. I have also been commissioned to write public-facing scholarly articles for The Ashmolean’s Krasis and NYU’s Goethe Project. During various moments of productivity, I was Editor-in-Chief of The Isis Magazine (2022), The Camera Publication (2025), and The Alexandria (2023), as well as Associate Editor of The Oxford Review of Books (2023).