I received my PhD in
Philosophy from the Joint Classics–Philosophy Program in Ancient
Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. My scholarship to date
has focused primarily on Hellenistic (i.e., post–Aristotelian)
philosophy. Together with Jeffrey Fish (Baylor University), I am
co–editor of a volume of essays, Epicurus and the Epicurean
Tradition, recently accepted for publication by Cambridge
University Press. I am also finishing up work on a monograph in which I
attempt to reconstruct an Epicurean theory of the emotions, paying
special attention to relatively neglected treatises partially preserved
among the Herculaneum papyri. In addition to my continued work in
Hellenistic philosophy, I have recently turned my attention to
Xenophon’s Socratic writings. I am currently in the process of
producing a new English translation of these (i.e., Apology, Memorabilia,
Oeconomicus, and Symposium)
for Hackett Publishing.
The University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The Department of the Classics - 4080 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews Avenue - Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-1008 - classics@illinois.edu
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics