Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University - 1994 (Comparative Literature (Greek, German, French))
M.A., Harvard University - 1987 (Comparative Literature)
B.A., University of Rochester - 1986 (Ancient Greek, minor in French)
Areas of Expertise:
Hellenist with emphasis on languages and literatures. Special interests: literary rhetoric and style, comparative poetics, pedagogy and practice of close reading, Plato, Sophocles, Homer.
Books and Publications
"The Silence of Homer's Sirens." Arethusa. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Review of Plato's Republic: A Critical Guide. Ed. M.L. McPherran. Classical Journal (online). (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2013
"Jocasta's Eye and Freud's Uncanny." Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference and the Formation of the Polis. Eds. D. McCoskey and E. Zakin. SUNY Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009
"A Garland of Stones: Hellenistic Lithika and Poetic Transformation." Labored in Papyrus Leaves. Eds. Acosta-Hughes et al. Harvard University Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003
"Compulsion as Cure: Contrary Voices in Early Freud." New Literary History 32.3: 585-96. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001
The Way of Oblivion: Heraclitus and Kafka. Harvard University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 1998
"A Phenomenal Hiding Place: Odyssey 5.476." Analecta Husserliana 44: 213-20. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1995
Review of Kafka's Spiele, by Pavel Petr. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 31: 169-70. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 1995
"Kafka's Way of Transcendence." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 30: 395-408. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Whiting Fellowship for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities, Brooklyn College, 2012-13. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
New Faculty Fund Award, Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
New Faculty Fund Award, Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Effective Educator Award, Miami University (Ohio) Alumni Association (finalist). (Awards and Honors) 2009
Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, 2001-02. (Grants and Fellowships) 2001
Petra T. Shattuck Award for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University Extension School. (Awards and Honors) 2001
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Terms of Rhetoric and Art in the Reading of Plato." American Philological Association. Seattle. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Presider, session on "Modern Echoes of Platonic Poetics." Modern Languages Association. Seattle. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Hypothetical Narration in Plato's Republic." CUNY Graduate Center. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Metapoetic Reflections in Plato's Cave." The Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Oklahoma City. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Schur, David and Lori Yamato. "Case Studies: Facts Filtered Through Language." Presentation for Residents in Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"Lost in Transmission: The Voice of Homer's Sirens." Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"The Literary Form of Plato's Cave." The Classical Association of the Middle West and South. St. Louis. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"Seeing Through Jocasta's Uncanny Eye." Conference on Antigone, Gender and the City-State. Miami University. Oxford, Ohio. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"Posidippus and Poetic Transformation." Center for Hellenic Studies. Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002
"Heraclitus and Method." American Philological Association. Atlanta. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1994
"A Phenomenal Hiding Place: Homer, Heraclitus, Heidegger." International Society for Philosophy and Literature. Cambridge, Mass. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1993
"Judgment by Fire: Heraclitus, Blanchot and Kafka." International Association of Philosophy and Literature. Berkeley, Calif. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1992
