Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Classics, 2008-Present

Lecturer, University of Southern California, Department of Classics, 2007-08

Ph.D. Classics and Ancient Philosophy, Department of Classics, Stanford University

2006-07 G.J. Lieberman Fellow in the Humanities

Dissertation: Philosophical Advertisements: Protreptic Marketing in Fourth Century Greek Culture (director: Andrea Nightingale; readers: Richard Martin, Josiah Ober; June 2007)

BA in Classics, Philosophy (H), and Plan II Honors, University of Texas at Austin

Interests:

• Ancient philosophy and oratory
• Greek tragedy
• Greek intellectual and social history
• Political, literary, and performance theory
• how philosophy sells itself
• art of philosophical askesis and performance
• democracy and performance
• memory and cognition
• practices of reading
• Formalism and Bakhtin
• history of the disciplines of philology and philosophy
• design theory

Wiki project page for Third-year Latin: Cicero's De re publica.

Co-directed the experimental lab seminar for Stanford undergraduates entitled Acting Socratic for efforts at becoming Socratic in modern spaces of performance (Spring 2006).

Previous work (2004) Philosophy through Literature track of Stanford's Philosophy Discovery Institute; Philosophical Stages summer pilot (2005), summer program (2006), and 2006, 2007 academic year workshops.

Taught "The Philosophy of Salvation" with Marc Pauly at Hope House, Spring 2007 for Stanford's Program in Ethics in Society.

Posted at Jun 20/2007 03:04PM:
Edda: What are you working on this summer for Philosophical Stages?

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