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
"Kierkegaard's Socratic Way of Writing." Co-authored with Lori Yamato. In Brill Companion to the Reception of Socrates. Ed. Christopher Moore. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
Review of The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic, by James L. Kastely. The Classical Journal 112.3: 382-384. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2017
"The Silence of Homer's Sirens." Arethusa 47.1: 1-17. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Plato's Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic. Hellenic Studies series, Harvard University Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2014
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: Book 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: Book Chapter) 2003
"Compulsion as Cure: Contrary Voices in Early Freud." New Literary History 32.3: 585-96. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2001
The Way of Oblivion: Heraclitus and Kafka. Harvard University Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 1998
"A Phenomenal Hiding Place: Odyssey 5.476." Analecta Husserliana 44: 213-20. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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
Co-organizer and presenter. "The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus." Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
Presider and presenter at session on Stanley Cavell and Close Reading. "Cavell and the Metapoetics of Walden." MLA. Austin. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Transmission without Message: Kafka and the Sirens." NeMLA. Toronto. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Exposure and Repression in Sophocles' Philoctetes." Northeast Modern Language Association. Harrisburg, Pa. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Reception and Repression in Philoctetes." American Comparative Literature Association. New York University. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Terms of Rhetoric and Art in the Reading of Plato." American Philological Association. Seattle. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Presider, "Modern Echoes of Platonic Poetics" session. Modern Language 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
