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General Interests
"My teaching interests include the use of and response to philosophy, specifically Plato, in the development of early Christianity and the study of the philosophical ideas found within Classical Greek tragedy and history. This focus on the history of ideas as found in antiquity is reflected in every part of my teaching, from Greek 101 to Classical Mythology."
Years at Knox: 2009 to present
Education
Ph.D., Classics, 2008, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
M.A., Classics, 2003, Columbia University.
M.A., Philosophy, 1998, SFSU.
B.A., Philosophy, 1993, University of Arizona.
Teaching Interests
Greek and Latin prose, ancient rhetoric, Greek culture in the Roman Era.
Publications
"Literary Platonism and the Platonic Rhetor," in The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, ed. L.P. Gerson, Cambridge University Press (2011): 100-115.
T.R.S. Broughton, Autobiography. Co-edited by T.C. Brennan, T.A. Broughton, A.G. Scott, K.J. Shea. Edition (with introduction, notes, annotated index) of unpublished autobiography of Canadian-born Roman historian who lived 1900-1993. Gorgias Press, published as AJAH 5 (2006) (2008): 304.
Presentations
"Intertextuality and 'Silver Latin'," Sunoikisis Latin Seminar, Fall 2011.
"Allusion and Hellenistic Poetry," Sunoikisis Greek Seminar, Fall 2011.
"Toward a Third Sophistic: Methodius of Olympus," CAMWS, Spring 2011.
"Philosophy and Classics," Classics Methods Seminar, Knox College, Spring 2010.
"Introduction to Textual Criticism," Classics Methods Seminar, Knox College, Spring 2010.
"Socrates and Athenian Law," Sunoikisis Greek Seminar, Fall 2010.
"ASCSA and Summer Opportunities for Study," Illinois Classical Conference, October 2010.
"Oracles and the Composition of Herodotus 1," CAMWS Minneapolis, Spring 2009.
"Herakles and Deianeira in Sophocles," CAAS Baltimore, Fall 2006.
"Broughton on the Magistrates," CAAS Philadelphia, Fall 2004.
