I am Associate Professor of Latin at the University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam, where I teach in the BA and MA programmes. I have for instance taught MA courses on Lucan's Bellum Civile and Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica.  

My research focuses on Hellenistic Greek and Roman poetry. I am particularly interested in applying modern theories of intertextuality and metapoetics to understand important dynamics of classical poetry.

My book Echoing Hylas: A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics, will be published in 2015 by University of Wisconsin Press.  

I am currently conducting a VENI research project funded by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) on "The Poetics of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica". As part of this project, Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus, edited by Gesine Manuwald (UCL) and me, was published in 2014 by Brill.

2015

• "Merging Paradigms: Translating Pharaonic Ideology in Theocritus’ Idyll 17", in L.J. Trudeau (ed.) Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Vol. 167, Gale, Cengage Learning: Farmington Hills, MI etc., pp. 310-23 (reprint of Heerink 2010, below).

2014

• "Heracles en Hylas: metapoëzie in de Hellenistische tijd" [Heracles and Hylas: Metapoetics in the Hellenistic Age], Lampas 47.4: 339-55.
• "Valerius Flaccus, Virgil and the Poetics of Ekphrasis", in Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus (eds. M. Heerink & G. Manuwald), Leiden & Boston: Brill, 72-95.
• (with G. Manuwald) "Introduction", in Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus (eds. M. Heerink & G. Manuwald), Leiden & Boston: Brill, 1-6.
• Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus (eds. M. Heerink & G. Manuwald), Leiden & Boston: Brill.

2013

•  "Silius versus Valerius: Orpheus in the Punica and the Argonautica", in Flavian Epic Interactions (eds. G. Manuwald & A. Voigt), Berlin: De Gruyter, 267-77 (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 21).

2012

• “Apollonius and Callimachus on Heracles and Theiodamas: A Metapoetical Interpretation”, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica101: 43-58.

2011

• “Ovid’s Aeginetan Plague and the Metamorphosis of the Georgics”, Hermes. Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie 139: 464-72.

2010

• “Merging Paradigms: Translating Pharaonic Ideology in Theocritus’ Idyll 17”, in Interkulturalität in der Alten Welt: Vorderasien, Hellas, Ägypten und die vielfältigen Ebenen des Kontakts (eds. R. Rollinger, M. Lang, B. Gufler & I. Madreiter), Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 383-408.

2009

• “Van elegie naar epos: Ovidius over zijn Metamorphosen” [From Elegy to Epic: Ovid on his Metamorphoses], Lampas 42.4: 299-322.

• “Misconceptions about the Art of Ancient Publishing: Catullus’ Book of Poetry Reconsidered”, International Journal of the Book 6.1: 95-100.

• Review of V. Hunink, Lucilius. Alles holt nu achteruit! Satiren, verzamelde fragmenten, ’s-Hertogenbosch: Voltaire, 2008.Hermeneus 81.5: 249.

2008

• “Basileus en farao: Egyptische invloeden in Idylle 17 van Theocritus” [Basileus and Pharaoh: Egyptian Influences in Idyll 17 of Theocritus], Phoenix 54.2: 13-35.
• (with Jan Bloemendal) “Heinsius’ Hylas als Echo der Antike”, in Daniel Heinsius: neulateinischer Dichter und klassischer Philologe(eds. E. Lefèvre & E. Schäfer), Tübingen: Günther Narr Verlag, 145-170 (NeoLatina, 13).

2007

• “Going a Step Further: Valerius Flaccus’ Metapoetical Reading of Propertius 1.20”, Classical Quarterly 57.2: 606-20.

• “Niet minder in uiterlijk, niet ongelijk in naam: de Hylas van Cornelius Gallus” [No Less in Looks, No Different in Name: The Hylas of Cornelius Gallus], Lampas 40.1: 53-72.

2006

• Review of K. Mauerhofer, Der Hylas-mythos in der antiken Literatur, Munich & Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.11.29.

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