Research Interests,
Publications,
and Working Projects
Research Interests
My research interests lie at the intersections of philosophy, psychology and ancient Greek literature. I am particularly interested in emotional mechanisms, such as compassion, shame, disgust, resentment, and how they can be understood as being both cognitive and bodily phenomena.
Publications
BOOK / MONOGRAPH
Erôs, Song, and Philosophy in Plato: Toward a Synthesis of a Cultural Ideal. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020.
BOOK / EDITED VOLUME
Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture. New York, NY: Routledge, 2023 (In press, expected in February 2024)
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Choral self-referentiality in the Prometheus Bound. Song, dance, and the emotions.” Logeion: A Journal of Ancient Theatre, 04/2015.
“The Aesthetics of Place in Plato’s Phaedrus.” Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy Vol.1, 11/2018.
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“Shame in Sartre: Plato’s Dialogues as Case Studies.” Sartre Studies International (Forthcoming, 2024).
“The construction of space in Plato’s Phaedrus: A Phenomenological Approach.” Collection of Essays in Honor of Lucia Athanassaki, edited by Myrto Aloumpi and Antonios Avgoustakis, Berlin; New York: DeGruyter (Forthcoming, 2024).
“Female Body, Disgust, and the Erotic Redefined: The Dialectic Mindshaping” In Beauty and Monstrosity in Art and Culture, edited by Chara Kokkiou and Angeliki Malakasioti. New York: Routledge. (Forthcoming, 2024).
Working Projects
BOOK / MONOGRAPH
Compassion in Aristotle (working title)
ARTICLES
"Freedom and Resentment in Plato's Phaedo" [Co-authored with Prof. Chad Van Schoelandt]
https://sites.google.com/view/chad-van-schoelandt/home
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“Compassion is Not a Virtue: Aristotle’s Account of Compassion in Nicomachean Ethics and Politics” (in progress)