I am a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where I am Professor of English and Comparative Literature. I write mostly about the relationship between classical literature and the Renaissance in Britain and Europe. I also review a wide range of books (contemporary poetry, translations, novels, works of literary criticism) for the London Review of Books.

My latest book is Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity. This is a study of both the theory and the practice of how authors have imitated other authors, from ancient Greece, through the age of intellectual property, and on to the age of Artificial Intelligence.