Education and research:

David Hayes received his B.A. in English from Kenyon College in 1992 and his M.A. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 2001.  In the academic year 2001-02, he served as the coordinator of “Fundamentals: Issues and Texts,” an undergraduate department in the New Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. In 2004, he presented a paper on Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho (PAMLA Conference, Portland, Oregon). A book of his own translations of ancient Greek poems is forthcoming from Focus Library.
His dissertation in progress is entitled: “Romantic-ironic Figures in Ancient Greek Love Poems.”

Classes taught at ECLA:

Academy Year core course: The School of Greece Education, Virtue, and Reason in the Athenian debates 479-323 B.C.
Project Year core course: Innocence and Experience

General Teaching Interests:

Greek philosophy and literature, poetry