Emily Fletcher Mellon Chair in Ancient Greek Philosophy University of Wisconsin-Madison

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1 AREA OF SPECIALIZATION Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Emily Fletcher Mellon Chair in Ancient Greek Philosophy University of Wisconsin-Madison EMPLOYMENT University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy & Affiliate Professor, Classical and Near Eastern Studies Fall 2012-Present EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Toronto Classics June, 2012 Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Dissertation: Plato on Pleasure, Intelligence and the Human Good: An Interpretation of the Philebus Committee: Rachel Barney (main adviser), Brad Inwood, Jennifer Whiting B.A. Stanford University Classics June, 2006 Honors Thesis: The Passions in Lucretius De Rerum Natura Thesis Directors: Chris Bobonich and Susanna Braund AWARDS Summer Fellowship, UW-Madison Research Committee, 2015 and 2016 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Fellowship, Spring 2015 NEH Summer Seminar Participant, Socrates, 2014 M. B. Wallace Memorial Graduate Award in Classics, 2012 Doctoral Completion Award, University of Toronto, R.M. Smith Memorial Fellowship, 2010, 2011 Zbigniew Jarkiewicz Memorial Scholarship, 2010 University of Toronto General Fellowship, Senior Prize in Classics, Stanford University, 2006 Junior Prize in Classics, Stanford University, 2005 Stanford University General Scholarship, Henry W. Seale Scholarship,

2 PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING Plato on Incorrect and Deceptive Pleasures, forthcoming in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. Two Platonic Criticisms of Pleasure, forthcoming in Pleasure, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, ed. Lisa Shapiro, (OUP). The Divine Method and the Disunity of Pleasure in the Philebus, Journal of the History of Philosophy 55.2 (2017), Aisthēsis, Reason and Appetite in the Timaeus, Phronesis 61 (2016), Plato on Pure Pleasure and the Best Life, Phronesis 59 (2014), WORK IN PROGRESS Pleasure, Judgment and the Function of the Painter-Scribe Analogy, Revise and Resubmit, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. The Two Ends of Human Beings in the Timaeus, invited contribution to The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2 nd edition. The Philosopher and the Tyrant in Republic IX Disease and Human Nature in the Timaeus PRESENTATIONS (*indicates refereed presentation) Talk TBD, Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic Psychology, SPAWN (Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network), August 2018 Talk TBD, Conference on Plato s Timaeus, Tsinghua University, Beijing, May 2018 Talk TBD, Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University, May 2018 Cosmology and Human Nature in the Timaeus, University College London, May 2018 Talk TBD, Northern Association of Philosophy, Annual Meeting, Nottingham, UK, March 2018 Commentary on Freya Mobus, Why Do Itches Itch? Emotions and Appetites in the Socratic Dialogues, APA Central Division, Chicago, February The Philosopher and the Tyrant in Republic IX, Ethics and Politics, Ancient and Modern, Stanford University, October 2017 The Philosopher and the Tyrant in Republic IX, Seminar Visit, University of Tübingen, May

3 Unmasking the Tyrant: Socrates Ultimate Response to Glaucon s Challenge, UC Riverside Ancient Philosophy Conference, April 2017 Pleasure, Judgment and the Function of the Painter-Scribe Analogy, Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, February 2017 Pleasure, Judgment, and the Function of the Painter-Scribe Analogy, Keynote Address at the West Coast Plato Conference on the Philebus, Northern Arizona University, May 2016 The Two Ends of Human Beings in the Timaeus, Plato s Late Dialogues, Northwestern University, March 2016 Plato on the Structure of Pleasure and Judgment, Colloquium and seminar visit, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 2016 Instability and Embodiment in the Timaeus, Stability in the Timaeus, Humboldt University Berlin, November 2015 Disease and Human Nature in the Timaeus, Medicine and Philosophy in Antiquity, St. Norbert College, October 2015 Tyrannical Pleasures in Socrates Third Proof in Republic IX, Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Philosophy, May 2015 The Critique of Bodily Pleasure in Republic IX, Junior Faculty Workshop at Notre Dame, May 2015 Body-Soul Dualism in Plato s Timaeus, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, April 2015 * The Divine Method and the Disunity of Pleasure in the Philebus, A New Perspective on Plato and his Philosophical Methods, Kyoto University, March 2015 The Divine Method and the Disunity of Pleasure in the Philebus, Invited Symposium Session, Central APA, St. Louis, February 2015 Plato on False and Deceptive Pleasures, University of Chicago Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop, January 2015 Commentary on Suzanne Obdrzalek, The Mortal and the Divine in Plato s Symposium and Phaedrus, The Human and the Divine, 10 th Biennial meeting of the Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, November 2014 Socrates on Divination and Expertise, Presentation at NEH Summer Seminar, Socrates, July

4 * Unity, Pleasure and the Fine, West Coast Plato Workshop on Plato s Hippias Major and Hippias Minor, UC Berkeley, May 2014 Plato on Bodily, Aesthetic and Intellectual Pleasures, conference for contributors to Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Pleasure volume, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, May 2014 Plato on the Heterogeneity of Pleasure, The Marquette University Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, March 2014 Plato on False and Deceptive Pleasures, Invited Symposium Session on Plato s Philebus, Central APA, Chicago, March 2014 Aisthēsis and Tripartition in Plato s Timaeus, Proctor Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, Wellesley College, February 2014 Commentary on Rachana Kamtekar, Impressing patterns and generating pleasures: two models of musical education, Moral Education, Ancient and Modern, Conference at Northwestern University, June 2013 Aisthēsis in Plato s Timaeus, Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, March 2013 * Plato on the Pleasures of Smell, APA Central Division, New Orleans, February 2013 * Plato on False and Deceptive Pleasures, Regional Meeting of the International Plato Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 2012 * Plato on Psychosomatic Health and Disease, Approaches to Ancient Medicine, University of Cardiff, Wales, August 2012 * Memory and the Perception of Change in Plato s Philebus, Meeting of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Cagliari, Sardinia, June 2012 * Hippias Minor and the Limitations of the Socratic Elenchus, Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, University of San Francisco, April 2012 Hedonism and the Choice of Lives in Plato s Philebus Philosophy Department, University of Toronto, November 2011 Philosophy Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, January 2012 Philosophy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, January 2012 Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 2012 Philosophy Department, Washington University in St. Louis, February 2012 Philosophy Department, Loyola University Chicago, February

5 Commentary on Daniel Russell, Aristotelian Virtue Theory: After the Person-Situation Debate, Aspects of Aristotelian Ethics, Toronto Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, March 2011 Disease and Irrational Pleasure in Plato s Philebus, Literary-Philological Seminar, Department of Classics, University of Toronto, November 2010 * Bodily Pleasure and Memory in Plato s Philebus, Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, New York City, October 2010 Animal Pleasures and the Human Good, Time and Consciousness in Plato s Philebus and Related Texts, Toronto Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, March 2009 * Situationism and the Dispositional View of Virtue, Canadian Philosophical Association, Vancouver, June 2008 * Normative Predicates and Vagueness, Vagueness and Language Use, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, April 2008 * The Peripatetic Account of the Passions, Lingua sed torpet: Manifestations of Emotions in the Ancient World, University of Virginia, graduate student conference, February 2008 * Anger in Lucretius De Rerum Natura, Anger in the Ancient World, University of Western Ontario, graduate student conference, March 2007 LANGUAGES Ancient Greek and Latin; reading knowledge of French, German and Italian TEACHING EXPERIENCE Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Plato s Republic (Graduate Seminar, Fall 2017) Socrates and the Examined Life (Spring 2017) Introductory Ethics (Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2017) History of Ancient Philosophy (Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016) Homer and Plato (Fall 2016) Facing Death (Fall 2014, Fall 2015) Plato on Pleasure and Desire (Fall 2012, Fall 2013) Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy (Graduate Seminar, Spring 2014) Plato s Moral Psychology (Graduate Seminar, Spring 2013) 5

6 Independent Study (Classics Prelim) on Plato s Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman and Parmenides (Spring 2013) Classics Department, University of Toronto: Introductory Latin (Summer 2011) Greek and Roman Mythology (Winter 2010) SERVICE Departmental Graduate Studies Committee ( ) Department Newsletter Committee ( ) Colloquium Committee ( ) Library Committee ( ) TA Lecturer Policies, Procedures, and Review Committee ( ) Tempkin Graduate Prize Committee ( , ) Tempkin Undergraduate Prize Committee ( , ) Undergraduate Planning Committee ( ) University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, ( ) Participant in First Book Workshop for Rebecca LeMoine, Plato s Caves: The Liberating Sting of Cultural Diversity (February 2017) Professional Program Committee for the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Co-organized conference, Ancient Republics, at UW-Madison, April 2015 Mentor for MarketBoost, Job Market Mentoring Program for Women in Philosophy, Reviewed articles for Journal for the History of Philosophy, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Apeiron, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, and Rhizomata. Community Class on Ancient Philosophy ( The Good Life ) for students from Edgewood, High School Visit Day organized by Will Brockliss in Classic, March 2014 REFERENCES Available upon request. 6