Andrea Nightingale

Nightingale's research focuses on Greek philosophy and literature, especially Plato and Aristotle; she attempts to locate these philosophic writers in the socio-political context of classical Greece (especially democratic Athens). Her research interests also include Late Antiquity, and Modern Philosophy, and more generally, she is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to ancient and modern philosophical texts. Nightingale has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and an ACLS Fellowship.  She has been a Stanford Fellow (2004-6) and is a Harvard Senior Fellow of the Hellenic Center (2009-2013).

Her books include Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (Cambridge 1996) and Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy:Theoria in its Cultural Context (Cambridge University Press 2004). She has just completed a book entitled "Once out of Nature":  Augustine on Time and the Body (submitted to the University of Chicago Press), and with David Sedley (Cambridge) has co-edited Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2010.

She is currently researching and writing on the philosophy and literature of ecology (in the modern and postmodern periods).