She moved to Harvard for her MA in 1965, and PhD in Comparative Literature, which she gained in 1976, writing a thesis on "Inreparabile tempus: A Study of Time in Virgil's Aeneid".
[2][3] In 1967 she became an instructor in classics at The College of New Rochelle, where she stayed until her retirement in 2000, by which point she had become a professor.
[2]: 214 She was elected as a member of the APA Board of Directors (1994–1997) and Vice President for Professional Matters (2001–2005).
[9] She also served as president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) in 2005, and their webmaster between 2005 and 2010.
[9] In 2012, the University of Maryland hosted an international, interdisciplinary conference in her honour.