My work sits at the intersection of ancient philosophy, Greek literature, and intellectual history. My primary research area is Socratic Studies, with a focus on emotion and moral formation in the works of Plato and Xenophon. More broadly, I draw on ancient emotion theory and cognitive studies as lenses for interpreting classical philosophy within its historical and intellectual contexts.
Current Book Project
- Emotion in Socratic Education: A Study in Plato and Xenophon.
My monograph synthesizes my current work to develop a new account of emotions as central and instrumental in Socratic pedagogy and moral formation across the Platonic and Xenophontic traditions.
Publications
- “Socrates, Hestia, and the Hearth of the City.” In Women in the Socratic Tradition.
- “Socrates on the Fear of Death and Overcoming It.” Forthcoming in Angst und Furcht in der antiken Welt.
- “Protreptic Emotions in the Education of Euthydemus (Memorabilia 4.2).” Forthcoming in Xenophon: Performance and Rhetoric.
- Epistemic Pain in Socratic Education: Alcibiades I and Memorabilia 4.2. Forthcoming in The Belgrade Philosophical Annual.
Works in Progress
- Embodied Metaphors of Aporia in Socratic Epistemology. Invited contribution.
- Elenchus as Epistemic Trauma in Plato’s Alcibiades I. Chapter in preparation.
- “Cultivating Virtue: Affect and Emulation in Xenophon's Oeconomicus.” Chapter in preparation.
- Socrates’ Dreams and Epistemic Insecurity in Plato’s Crito and Phaedo. Article in preparation.
- Charming Socrates: The Polysemy of Logos in Plato's Crito. Article in preparation.
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
- Epistemic Pain and the Aversion to Reason in Socratic Education. APA Baltimore, January 2026.
- Epistemic Emotions in Socratic Education: Clinias, Alcibiades, and Euthydemus. University of Belgrade, January 2026.
- Cultivating Virtue: Affect and Emulation in Xenophon's Oeconomicus. Santiago, Chile, March 2026.
- Better to Stay Silent? The Stakes of Silence in Memorabilia 4.2. University of Coimbra, July 2026.
- Imitating Socrates: Emulation as Emotional Education in Xenophon’s Memorabilia. University of Maynooth, Ireland, July 2026.
Conference Organization
- Mimesis in the Socratic Tradition: From Athens to Late Antiquity and Beyond. Celtic Classics Conference, University of Maynooth, Ireland, July 2026.