
She has a book due out in April 2008 on the language of insult and appetite (Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens), and she is now engaged in a new project that traces how metaphors centered on the body and its senses organize ideas about style in rhetorical treatises, literary critical discussions, and programmatic passages in poetry. She is also working on Virginia Woolf's reading of Sophocles' Electra and has developed a new interest in the modernist reception of ancient literature.