I'm a critic and journalist based in Brooklyn. I write about culture, women, books and the arts, and anything and everything about life in New York.
I've freelanced for publications in Europe and the US – the New York Times, Salon.com, the Huffington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Prospect magazine, the Daily Telegraph, the Irish Times, the Irish Sunday Independent, the Irish Echo, and the Irish Voice and its online version, irishcentral.com. I write book reviews, news reports, features, and opinion. In the past I've had a monthly column in the Erotic Review, a literary magazine based in London. I also blog regularly for Forbes Woman.
I did some others things before journalism. I studied English and ancient Greek literature at Trinity College Dublin, where I had an entrance exhibition and was a foundation scholar. I liked ancient Greek so much that I went on to complete a doctorate in the subject at Oxford (on "The self-presentation of intellectuals in Greek literature of the 2nd century AD," since you ask!).
I taught Greek tragedy, comedy, ancient novels and philosophy at King's College London for a couple of years, and I have co-authored a book called The Philosopher's Banquet for Oxford University Press, which just came out this autumn.
But I wanted to see a bit more of the world so I decided to move into journalism. I was lucky enough to get a scholarship to study cultural reporting and criticism at New York University. I headed for New York and I've had a peripatetic time here, living in Brooklyn, Queens, and now Brooklyn again.
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