Faith McFadden

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Broadly speaking, my research lies in the overlap and intersection of literature and ancient philosophy. I am particularly interested in the use of tragic and comic vocabulary and imagery throughout Plato’s dialogues–more specifically, how these vocabularies and images are warped to support Platonic ethics and metaphysics.

A second branch of my research concerns the use of the animal to construct and delimit the human and human concerns (such as brutality; or community inclusion/exclusion) in Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Most of my work centers on poetry, although I have recently begun to expand that interest into prose as well.