I explore the reception of the ancient Mediterranean world in modern intellectual, cultural and art history. I examine how the reception of antiquity has been central to key debates in the arts and humanities about the history of knowledge, gender and sexuality, race and empire, and art and aesthetics. My research focuses on the classical tradition spanning major intellectuals from the early-modern period to the twenty-first century. including Giambattista Vico, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, Eve Sedgwick and Judith Butler. I am interested in the reception of antiquity in Black Atlantic cultural and intellectual history. I am co-editor with Gurminder K. Bhambra and Tessa Roynon of African Athena: New Agendas (Oxford University Press, 2011); co-editor with Pierre-Philippe Fraiture of The VY Mudimbe Reader (University of Virginia Press, 2016) and co-editor with Sarah Derbew and Phiroze Vasunia of Classics and Race: A Historical Reader (UCL Press, 2015).