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Phoenix, AZ, US

Anthem, Arizona

I enthusiastically seek the true, the good, and the beautiful with my wonderful students in seminars on great books of Western literature and philosophy and ancient Greek. I teach Humane Letters, a daily two hour Socratic seminar, on authors ranging from Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and the Bible to Dante, Dostoyevsky, Vergil, and Hegel.I love being.

Austin, TX

Mentor is an ancient Greek word for one name of Athena in disguise. In Homer's Odyssey, Athena arrives as a man named Mentor to guide heroes to success. A mentor opens your mind to your own wisdom. I inspire you to new ideas to empower yourself on your odyssey. Mentors create the path to inspire others to better choose their own. I create a path of.

In his own literary experiment, Professor David Grene trained me to be the only James Joyce scholar in the world to "read Homer's Odyssey first" before reading Ulysses, following the only method Joyce ever offers for studying his novel in a 1921 letter to his Aunt Josephine. But David Grene taught me to read Homer not only in translation like Aunt.

Santa Fe

In the ultimate great books experience, I taught the wonderful Western canon from Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Descartes to Cervantes, Hegel, Flaubert, Eliot, Joyce and Virginia Woolf, including over 100 authors in literature and philosophy. I loved teaching Homeric and Attic Greek language, grammar, poetry and the art of translation, as well as.

New Haven CT

Supervised by Professors Jane Levin and Norma Thompson, it was my joy and my honor to teach the World Literature Sequence in Directed Studies, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, Vergil, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe, Flaubert, Dostoevsky and the Bible.Yale University describes the great books program in Directed Studies thusly:"Directed.

New Haven, CT

One of the most fertile, fruitful intellectual environments on the planet!My research explored the value of Joyce's advice to "read the Odyssey first in prose translation" in order to understand Ulysses. Designing curricula to compare Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses, I studied the impact of reading Homer first "in the original" the way Buck Mulligan.

New Haven, CT

I taught the World Literature Sequence in Directed Studies and participated in the Poetics of Translation Workshop.At the invitation of Professor Jane Levin, I lectured on ““The Wisdom of Ghosts in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey" and “Oedipal Goodness in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex” in the Whitney Humanities Center.My doctoral lecture, “The Oxymoron of Fidelity in.

Zürich, Switzerland

I was a Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Zürich James Joyce Foundation at the Invitation of Fritz Senn for the spring and summer of 2003. I returned to Zürich for workshops “Naming in Joyce" and "Material Joyce" and consulted by email and phone with Joyce scholars worldwide from America.I participated in seminars at The Jung Institute in Küshnacht.

Dublin, Ireland

Invited by Professor Anne Fogarty, I was a visiting faculty lecturer for the Joyce Summer School, participating in lectures, reading groups, workshops and anthropological Ulysses field trips.Fritz Senn, Founder of the Zurich Joyce Foundation, and I gave a public dialogue exemplifying spontaneous, collaborative learning called “The Return of the Duologue.

Chicago, IL

I taught in the Humanities Core Course "Human Being and Citizen," supervised by my former Professor Herman Sinaiko. Readings included Homer’s Iliad, The Book of Genesis, Plato’s Apology and Crito, Aristotle’s Ethics, Augustine’s Confessions and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.I published three reviews on Joyce scholarship and Joyce conferences.I.

Princess Anne, MD

I was the professor on a live afternoon tutoring program for homework help in math and language arts, broadcasting four programs weekly.I took calls from students with questions live on air and taught spontaneously during the hour.I published three reviews on James Joyce scholarship and conferences.

New London, CT

I designed and taught a freshman English course, “Heroes and Homecomings.”Readings included Heaney’s The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Homer’s Odyssey, Joyce’s Dubliners, Tennyson’s “Ulysses,” Cummings’ “I Sing of Olaf,” Frazier’s Cold Mountain, Salinger’s Franny and Zooey and Stegner’s Crossing to Safety.I gave three lectures at.

Chicago, IL

I led reading groups in preparation for the Fall Weekend of the Basic Program in Alpine Valley, Wisconsin, where I gave my debut public lecture, “The Meaning of Heroism in Homer’s Odyssey and Joyce’s Ulysses," on a panel with fellow lecturers Professors David Grene and Stephanie Nelson.I also gave an introductory lecture and seminar on “James Joyce’s The.

The Committee On Social Thought, Master'S Degree (M.A.), Doctorate Of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Activities and Societies: Master's Essay: "The Mutability of Divinity in Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound"Doctoral Lecture: "The Oxymoron of.

The College, Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Fundamentals: Issues And Texts

Activities and Societies: Co-editor of Chicago Literary Review; Staff Writer for Grey City Journal. Dean's List, GPA: 3.95The Chicago Core.

Laboratory Schools, Liberal Arts And Sciences, Grades 1-12

Activities and Societies: Gymnastics, Coaches Award; Renaissance Literary Magazine Editor; National Merit Semi-Finalist; Yearbook EditorI.