SVETLA SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN
Department of Classics, Florida State University, 205 Dodd Hall
64 University Way, PO Box 32306-1510, Tallahassee, FL 32306–1510
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Classics, University of Iowa 1994–2000
M.A. in Classics, University of Iowa 1992–94
B.A./M.A. in Classics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria 1986–92
National School for Ancient Languages and Civilizations, Sofia, Bulgaria 1981–86
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Florida State University 2009–present
Courtesy Appointment, Department of Religion, Florida State University 2009–present
Core Faculty, History and Philosophy of Science Program, FSU 2011–present
Associate Chair, Department of Classics, Florida State University 2014–2019
Associate Chair, Department of Classics, Florida State University 2010–2012
Assistant Professor, Florida State University 2001–08
Instructor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2000–01
Adjunct Instructor, University of Iowa 2000
Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa 1993–2000
Research Assistant, University of Iowa 1992–93
Tutor for the Office of Learning Support, University of Iowa 1992 SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 2
RESEARCH AWARDS
Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers 2013–14
Recipient of FSU Developing Scholar Award 2012
Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Iowa 1999–2000
Bernice Sims Research Travel Award, University of Iowa 1998
Gold Medal and Magna cum Laude, National School for Ancient Languages and 1986 Civilizations, Sofia, Bulgaria
PUBLISHING AWARDS
Routledge 2015 Outstanding Academic Title in Philosophy for P. Remes and S. Slaveva-Griffin, The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge 2014
Choice’s Essential Academic Title 2015 for P. Remes and S. Slaveva-Griffin, The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge 2014
TEACHING NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
Recipient of SCS Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College Level Award 2020
Recipient of Certificate of Distinction, FSU Office of Distance Learning 2014
Nominated for FSU Graduate Teaching Award 2011
Nominated for FSU Undergraduate Teaching Award 2009
Nominated for FSU Graduate Teaching Award 2007
Recipient of FSU Undergraduate Teaching Award 2006
Nominated for FSU Undergraduate Teaching Award 2005
Nominated for FSU Undergraduate Teaching Award 2003
Nominated for FSU Undergraduate Teaching Award 2002
Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Iowa 1996 SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 3
ADVISING NOMINATIONS
Nominated for FSU Graduate Advisor Award 2017
Nominated for FSU Undergraduate Advising Award 2012
Nominated for FSU Honors Thesis Mentor Award 2008
Nominated for FSU Graduate Advisor Award 2007
Nominated for Superior Honors Teaching Award 2004
GRANTS: EXTERNAL
Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers 2013–14
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London 2008
GRANTS: INTERNAL
FSU College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Travel Faculty Award 2019
FSU Provost’s Faculty Travel Award 2018
FSU Council on Research and Creativity, COFRS Grant 2016
FSU Undergraduate Research Grant 2014
FSU Council on Research and Creativity, COFRS Grant 2011
FSU Provost’s Faculty Travel Award 2008
FSU Council on Research and Creativity, COFRS Grant 2008
FSU Council on Research and Creativity, Planning Grant, Firestone Library, Princeton 2007 University
FSU Council on Research and Creativity COFRS Grant (declined) 2007
FSU ODDL Direct Grant for development of an online course on ancient science and 2005 medicine
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FSU Faculty Senate Library Committee Grant Award for Greek and Latin Medical Sources 2003
FSU Faculty Development Workshops Grant 2003
FSU Faculty Senate Library Committee for Greek and Latin Primary Sources 2002
FSU First Year Assistant Professor Summer Grant 2002
SCHOLARSHIP
DISSERTATION AND THESES
Ph.D. Dissertation “Ennead VI.6: The Concept of Multiplicity as Number in Plotinus’ Universal Hierarchy”
M.A. Thesis “Frequency, Indexing and Attempt on Glottometric Analysis of Plotinus’ Enneads”
BOOKS
S. Slaveva-Griffin, Plotinus on Number, Oxford University Press, 2009
S. Slaveva-Griffin, Neoplatonism and the Art of Medicine, under review
EDITED VOLUMES
S. Slaveva-Griffin and I. Ramelli, eds., Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives in Late Antiquity, Center for Hellenic Studies: Hellenic Studies Series, Harvard University Press (Forthcoming, June 2020)
P. Remes, S. Slaveva-Griffin, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge, 2014
WORKS IN PROGRESS
S. Slaveva-Griffin, Plotinus: Ennead VI.6: “On Numbers.” Translation with an Introduction and Commentary, under contract with Parmenides Press (completion October 2020)
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ARTICLES
“Platonists and their Lives,” in Ancient Biography: Identity through Lives, F. Cairns and T. Luke eds., Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 17 (2018) 249–271.
“Socrates’ Debt to Asclepius: Physicians and Philosophers with Asclepian Souls in Late Antiquity,” Numen 63.2–3 (2016) 167–195.
“Is There Philosophy after Aristotle?,” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 44 (2013) 154–9.
“Medicine in the Life and Works of Plotinus,” Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 (2010) 93–117.
“Unity of Thought and Writing: Enn. 6.6 and Porphyry’s Arrangement of the Enneads,” CQ 58.1 (2008) 277–85.
“Philosophy and Myth: Review of Recent Scholarship,” in Philosophy and the Longing for Myth, H. Tarrant and R. Benitez, eds., in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 12.2 (2007) 247–50.
“’A Feast of Speeches:’ Form and Content in Plato’s Timaeus,” Hermes 133.3 (2005) 312–27.
“Of Gods, Philosophers, and Charioteers: Content and Form in Parmenides’ Proem and Plato’s Phaedrus,” TAPA 133.2 (2003) 227–53.
“Literary Form and Philosophical Exegesis: Plotinus’ Utilization of Plato’s Cosmology,” AncW 34.1 (2003) 57–66.
CHAPTERS
“At the Crossroads of Two Pathways,” in Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body, S. Slaveva-Griffin and I. Ramelli, eds. Center for Hellenic Studies: Hellenic Studies Series, Harvard University Press (Forthcoming, June 2020)
“Reconsidering the Body: From a Tomb to a Sign of Soul,” in Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body, S. Slaveva-Griffin and I. Ramelli, eds. Center for Hellenic Studies: Hellenic Studies Series, Harvard University Press (Forthcoming, June 2020)
“Moving Forward,” in Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body, S. Slaveva-Griffin and I. Ramelli, eds. Center for Hellenic Studies: Hellenic Studies Series, Harvard University Press (Forthcoming, June 2020)
“Herakles’ Thirteenth Labor,” in At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture and Religion: Papers in Memory of Carin M.C. Green, S. W. Bell and L. Holland, eds. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018: 1–17. SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 6
“Neoplatonic Views on Madness and Madness,” in The Concept of Madness from Homer to Byzantium: Manifestations and Aspects of Mental Illness and Disorder, H. Perdicoyianni-Paléologou, ed., Amsterdam: Hakkert Publishing, 2016: 277–297.
“Argumentum ex Silentio: Religion in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica,” in Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms, I. Ramelli and J. Perkins eds., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015: 303–25.
“Tracing the Untraceable: Plotinian Motifs in the Pseudo-Galenic De Spermate,” in Neoplatonic Questions, José M. Zamora Calvo, ed., Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2014: 9–42.
“Between the Two Realms: Plotinus’ Pure Soul,” in Greek Religion: Philosophy and Salvation, V. Adluri, ed., in the series Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, de Gruyter (2013) 313–42.
“Trial by Fire: An Ontological Reading of Katharsis,” in Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World, K Corrigan, T. Rasimus eds., Brill (2013) 525–42.
“Contemplative Ascent as Dance in Plotinus and Rūmī,” in Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions, K. Corrigan, J.D. Turner, P. Wakefield, eds., Sankt Augustine: Akademia Verlag (2012) 195–212.
HANDBOOK AND COMPANION CHAPTERS
“Byzantine Medical Encyclopedias and Education” in Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World, P. T. Keyser and J. Scarborough eds. (2018) 965–986.
“Nature and the Divine” in A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome, G. L. Irby, ed., Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (2016): vol. 1: 60–75.
“Number in the Metaphysical Landscape” in The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, P. Remes and S. Slaveva-Griffin, eds. London: Routledge, 2014: 200–15.
BOOK REVIEWS
P. E. Pormann, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, Classical Journal (forthcoming).
D. J. Yount, Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics. London: Bloomsbury 2017, Journal of the History of Philosophy 56.1 (2018) 172–173.
A. Smith, Plotinus, Ennead I.6, On Beauty. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing 2016, The Classical Review 67.2 (2017) 374–376. SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 7
J. Henderson Collins II, Exhortations to Philosophy: The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2015, Classical World 109.3 (2016) 433–4.
P. Kalligas, The ‘Enneads’ of Plotinus: A Commentary, Volume 1, trans. by Elizabeth Key Fowden and Nicolas Pilavachi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 98.2 (2016) 231–4.
D. Yount, Plotinus the Platonist: A Comparative Account of Plato and Plotinus’ Metaphysics. London: Bloomsbury, 2014, Classics Ireland 19–20 (2012–2013) 197–200, in print 2016.
L. P. Gerson, From Plato to Platonism, Cornell University Press, 2013, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2014.10.07.
L. Brisson, G. Aubry, M.-H. Congourdeau and F. Hudry (eds), Porphyre: Sur la manière dont l’embryon reçoit l’âme. In Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique 43. Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2012, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 8.2 (2014) 245–9.
J. Kalvesmaki, The Theology of Arithmetic. Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity. Center for Hellenic Studies, 2013, The Classical Review 64.2 (2014) 429–31; doi:10.1017/ S0009840X14001334.
S. P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire, Oxford University Press, 2013, CJ-Online, 2014.03.01.
C. T. Gerber, The Spirit of Augustine’s Early Theology: Contextualizing Augustine’s Pneumatology, Ashgate Publishing, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 82.4 (2013) 955–7.
N.-L. Cordero (ed.), Parmenides: Venerable and Awesome. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Buenos Aires, October 29-November 2, 2007, Parmenides Publishing, 2011, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 7.1 (2013) 121–6.
G. Stamatellos, Introduction to Presocratics. A Thematic Approach to Early Greek Philosophy With Key Readings, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 7.1 (2013) 127–31.
C. Maggi, Sinfonia mathematica. Aporie e soluzioni in Platone, Aristotele, Plotino, Giamblico, Loffredo Editore, 2010, Elenchos 33.2 (2012) 396–406.
S. Ahbel-Rappe, Damascius’ Problems & Solutions Concerning First Principles, Translated with Introduction and Notes, Oxford Univeristy Press 2010, Ancient Philosophy 32 (2012) 227–31.
J. Wilberding, Porphyry: To Gaurus On How Embryos are Ensouled and On What is in Our Power, Bristol Classical Press, 2011, Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter 15 (2012) 299– 306.
R. M. van den Berg, Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context, Brill 2007, Ancient Philosophy 30 (2010) 225–9. SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 8
D. B. Martin, Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians, Harvard University Press, 2004, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 78.2 (2009) 381–3.
C. Stapert, New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church, Eerdmans Publishing, 2007, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 77.1 (2008) 151–2.
S. Gersh, Neoplatonism after Derrida, Brill, 2007, International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2.2 (2008) 224–8.
H. Tarrant and D. Baltzly, Reading Plato in Antiquity, Duckworth 2006, Phoenix 62.3–4 (2008) 390–2.
D. Russell, Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life, Oxford University Press, CW 100.4 (2007) 453–4.
C. Baracchi, Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato’s Republic, Indiana University Press, BMCR (2002).
V. Tsouna, The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School, Cambridge University Press, CW 94.1 (2000) 104–5.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
S. Slaveva-Griffin, “Plotinus” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, Wiley Blackwell (accepted May 2018).
S. Slaveva-Griffin, “Parmenides” in The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, Salem Press, 2001, vol. 2 pp. 869–70.
S. Slaveva-Griffin, “Xenophanes” in The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, Salem Press, 2001 vol. 3, p. 1139.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “’Every Soul is Aphrodite:’ Allegory of Love in Plotinus and Heliodorus,” in Meaning Between the Lines: Allegory and Hermeneutics in Greek Imperial and Late Antique Literature, Trinity College Dublin, February 6–7, 2020.
“Neither the Body Without the Soul: Does the Art of Medicine Matter?,” SCS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2020.
“The Silent Arts in Martianus’ On the Marriage of Mercury and Philology,” in The Marriage of Mercury and Philology by Martianus Capella, University of Sofia, December 13–14, 2019.
“Plato and Plotinus on Healing,” in Soul Matters: Plato and Platonists on the Nature of the Soul. University of Michigan, December 6–8, 2019. SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 9
“Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Anthroposomatic Crossroads of Religion and Philosophy in Late Antiquity,” SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 2019.
“A House of Ensoulment,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2018.
“What is a World Crisis?,” Spring 2018 Langford Conference, Tallahassee, FL, 2018.
“The Anthroposomatic Crossroads of Religion and Philosophy in Late Antiquity,” SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, 2017.
“Thinking about the Body Globally,” Humboldt Colloquium, Washington DC, Mar 2–5, 2017.
“Proclus’ Paeonian Chain: Healing the World from Body to a Body,” SCS Annual Meeting, Toronto, 2017.
“Herakles’ Thirteenth Labor,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Seattle, 2016.
“Philosophers and their Lives,” Fall 2015 Langford Conference Narrating Lives: Biography and Identity in Antiquity, FSU, Nov 6–7, 2015.
“Panem et Circenses: The 99% in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica,” SBL/AAR Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2014.
“Asclepian Souls: What are they and who are they?”, ISNS Annual Meeting, Lisbon, 2014.
“Plotinus on Pain,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Cardiff, 2013.
“‘In the Garden of Zeus:’ Plotinus and Heliodorus on the Allegory of Love,” APA Annual Meeting, Seattle, 2013.
“Trial by Fire: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter and Plato’s Phaedo on Mor(t)ality and Immor(t)ality,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Sardinia, 2012.
“Heliodorus and the Middle Platonists’ Romance with the Duality of Soul,” APA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2012.
“Medical Motifs in the Neoplatonic Conception of Madness,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2011.
“Neoplatonic Views on Madness and Madness,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, 2011.
“Plato, Plotinus, and the Chaldean Oracles on Pure Soul,” Neoplatonism and the East, Haifa, 2011.
“Plotinian Motifs in the Pseudo-Galenic De Spermate,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Madrid, June 2010.
“The Puzzle of the Pseudo-Galenic De Spermate,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Krakow, June 2009.
“Bridging the Cultural Gap in Lecture Classes,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, 2008.
“Ignore Your Body: Neoplatonic Prescription for Health,” FSU Spring 2008 Langford Conference on Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome: Medicine, Metaphor, Manipulation. SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 10
“Plato’s Hippocrates: The Healing Art of Medicine in the Republic,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Helsinki, 2007.
“Dancing on the Cosmic Stage,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, 2007.
“Aristotle’s Poetics on Plotinus’ Terms,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Madison, 2005.
“‘But what is there dreadful about the Magnitude?’ Plotinus and Aristotle on Magnitude and Beauty,” ISNS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2003.
Respondent to the panel “Neoplatonism or the Philosophy of Transition from Paganism to Christianity,” APA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2003.
“Plato and Plotinus on the History of Multiplicity in Greek Philosophy,” A Conference on Platonism, Neoplatonism, and Literature, University of Maine, Orono, 2002.
“‘Feast of Discourse’ in Plato’s Timaeus: From the Myth of Atlantis to the Myth of the Demiurge,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Austin, 2002.
“Of Gods, Philosophers, and Charioteer: A Journey of an Allegory from the Odyssey to Phaedrus,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Provo, 2001.
“Ennead VI.6: a Neoplatonic Interpretation of the Four Primary Kinds in Plato's Philebus,” 24th Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, Tallahassee, 2001.
“Intellectual Anabasis in Parmenides’ Journey to the Intelligible,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Knoxville, 2000.
“Literary Form and Philosophical Exegesis: Plotinus’ Utilization of Plato’s Cosmology,” APA Annual Meeting, Dallas, 1999.
“Many Beings, Many Souls, Many Intellects: The Concept of Multiplicity in Plotinus’ Philosophy,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Cleveland, 1999.
“Plotinus’ Understanding of Numbers in the Treatise ‘On Numbers’ and Porphyry’s Arrangement of the Enneads,” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, 1998.
“Plotinus’ Understanding of Multiplicity in the Treatise ‘On Numbers’ and Porphyry’s Arrangement of the Enneads,” APA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1997.
“Unity of Thought and Writing: Plotinus’ Treatise ‘On Numbers’ and Porphyry’s Arrangement of the Enneads,” International Society for the Classical Tradition Annual Meeting, Tübingen, Germany, 1998.
Volvens Fatorum Arcana Movebo: The Metaphor of the ‘Unrolling Fate’ in the Aeneid (1.262),” CAMWS Annual Meeting, Boulder, 1997.
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INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Eat. Pray. Heal.” Dissecting Cultural Pluralism in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean, University of Virginia, March 29, 2019.
“The Turning Point of Philosophy and Religion,” Faculty Research Forum, Department of Classics, FSU, December 1, 2017.
“Plotinus and Neoplatonism,” Department of Philosophy, FSU, October 2016.
“What to do about the body?,” Faculty Research Forum, Department of Classics, FSU, November 13, 2015.
“Rumi and Sufism on Dance and Inspiration,” Workshop with Ragmala Dance Group, FSU College of Visual Arts, March 23, 2015.
“Plotinus on Happiness,” Philosophy Department, FSU, March 4, 2015.
“Hippocrates’ Physics? Use and misuse of ancient sources in the pseudo-Galenic De Spermate, University of Helsinki, April 24, 2014.
“Did the Neoplatonists exile medicine from philosophy?”, Notre Dame Workshop on Ancient Philosophy, March 5, 2014.
“Plotinus’ use of pain in his soul-body argument,” in “New Work in Ancient Philosophy” seminar, Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, December 2013.
“Physicians and Philosophers with Asclepeian Souls,” Department of Classics, University of Sofia, September 2013.
“Heliodorus and Plotinus on the Allegory of Love,” Department of Classics, University of Sofia, September 2013.
“Tracing the Untraceable: Neoplatonists in the Pseudo-Galenic De Spermate,” History and Philosophy of Science Program, Florida State University, April 2012.
Respondent to a panel “Medicine and Philosophy,” Graduate Colloquium, Department of Classics, Florida State University, January 2012.
“Performance and Cure: Greek Drama and Healing,” panelist, Florida State University Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, January 2012.
“Plotinus’ Theory of Number?,” lecture in the Seminar on Philosophy and Mathematics, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, School of Advanced Study, May 2011.
“Medical References in Enn. III.6.2,” Colloquium Plotinianum, Istituto di Svizzero, Rome, May 2009. SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 12
“The Puzzle of the Pseudo-Galenic De Spermate,” talk delivered at the Second Century B.C.E. Philosophy Seminar at Cambridge, University of Cambridge, October 2008.
“Shading off the Body: Contemplative Ascent in Plotinus and Rūmī,” Institute for the History of Philosophy, Emory University, June 2008.
Respondent to a panel on Jewish-Christian Philosophy in the Roman World, Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Religion, Florida State University, March 2008.
“From Cosmogony to Cosmology: Constructing the Order of the Universe in Ancient Greek Philosophy,” Department of Classics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 2001.
“The Future of Classics,” Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, 2001.
“Plotinus in recent Neoplatonic Scholarship,” Brown Bag Luncheon, University of Iowa, 2000.
PANELS ORGANIZED
“Conceptions of the Soul in Plato, Aristotle, and the Platonic Tradition,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2018
“Soul and Body in the Neoplatonic Tradition,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Seattle, 2016
“The Commentary Tradition,” SCS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2016
“Neoplatonism and the Irrational,” SCS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2015
“Soul and Souls in the Platonic Tradition,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Lisbon, 2014
“Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Cardiff, 2013
“Mania Platonic and Neoplatonic,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2011
“Neoplatonism and the East,” APA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2010
“Medicine and Philosophy,” ISNS Annual Meeting, Krakow, Poland, 2009
“The Soul and its Afterlife,” APA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2009
“Neoplatonic Myth and Poetics,” APA Annual Meeting, Montréal, 2006
“Neoplatonism and Living the Good Life: Ethics in a Neoplatonic Context,” APA Annual Meeting, Boston, 2005 SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 13
“The Neoplatonic Way of Life and the Construction of a Philosophic System,” APA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2004
“Neoplatonism or the Philosophy of Transition from Paganism to Christianity,” APA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January, 2003
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
Langford Conference on Platonism and the World Crisis, co-organizer with John Dillon, 2018 Langford Eminent Professor, Spring 2018
Langford Conference on Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome: Medicine, Metaphor, Manipulation, co- organizer with Miriam Griffin, 2008 Langford Eminent Professor, Florida State University, Spring 2008
PANELS CHAIRED
“Conceptions of the Soul in Plato, Aristotle, and the Platonic Tradition,” co-chaired with J. Finamore, ISNS Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 2018
“Soul and Body in the Neoplatonic Tradition,” co-chaired with J. Finamore, ISNS Annual Meeting, Seattle, 2016
“Platonism and the Irrational,” co-chaired with J. Finamore, APA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2015
“Soul and Souls in the Platonic Tradition,” co-chaired with J. Finamore and I. Ramelli, a six-part session, ISNS Annual Meeting, Lisbon, 2014
“Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body,” co-chaired with J. Finamore and I. Ramelli, ISNS Annual Meeting, Cardiff, 2013
Ancient Philosophy, CAMWS Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, 2011
Ancient Philosophy, CAMWS Annual Meeting, Gainesville, 2006
Session 1a at the ISNS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2003
“Neoplatonism or Philosophy of Transition,” APA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2003
“Neoplatonism and Literary Tradition,” A Conference on Platonism, Neoplatonism, and Literature, Orono, 2002 SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 14
Ancient Greek Philosophy, International Society for the Classical Tradition Annual Meeting, Tübingen, Germany, 1998
PUBIC LECTURES
“The Publication Process,” FSU Author Day, March 31, 2016
“Philosophy of Language and the Origin of the Alphabet,” at the 34th Annual Conference FFLA, 2002, October 17–19, 2002
“Origins of the Alphabet,” Annual Latin Day, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2001
TEACHING HISTORY
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
LARGE UNDERGRADUATE LECTURE COURSES (100–300 STUDENTS)
REGULAR CLASSROOM
Introduction to Greek and Roman Civilizations
Classical Mythology
Science for non-Science Majors
ONLINE COURSES
Ancient Mythology
Gender and Society in Ancient Greece
Medical Terminology
ADVANCED UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS (25–50 STUDENTS)
Kosmos and Bios
Mystery Religions
Ancient Medicine SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 15
UNDERGRADUATE HONOR’S SEMINAR (15 STUDENTS)
Poetry vs. Philosophy
UNDERGRADUATE LANGUAGE COURSES (VARIOUS ENROLLMENT)
All Levels of Greek
Advanced Greek Prose
Advanced Greek Poetry
Advanced Latin Poetry
GRADUATE LANGUAGE AND SPECIAL TOPIC SEMINARS (VARIOUS ENROLLMENT)
Greek Survey
Graduate Greek Review
Ancient Medicine
Neoplatonism
Plato’s Myths
Myth & Philosophy
Plato, Phaedrus
Plato, Phaedo
Aristophanes, Frogs
Aristophanes, Clouds
Homer, Odyssey
Greek Composition and Stylistics
Latin Composition and Stylistics
Heliodorus
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UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Intermediate Latin—4th semester (Vergil)
Elementary Latin—1st semester
Advanced Greek—4th year (Euripides)
Elementary Greek—1st and 2nd semester
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Classical Mythology (large lecture)
Word Power: Building English Vocabulary (large lecture)
Greek Civilization (leading discussion sections)
Latin Literature of the Empire
Cicero and Sallust—Latin Readings for Classics Majors
All Levels of Latin
MENTORING HISTORY
DIRECTED PH.D. DISSERTATIONS
Jonathan Reeder, “Logos, Technē, and the Genre of Galen’s Protrepticus,” in progress
Alex Lee, “Character and Characterization in Xenophon,” in progress
Robert E. Hedrick III, “Seeing the Unseeable: The Philosophical and Rhetorical Concept of Enargeia at Work in Latin Poetry,” co-directed with Tim Stover, Department of Classics, FSU, defended Spring 2015
Cynthia Kent-Toussaint, “Ancient Science and Medicine in the Isenheim Altar,” co-chair, Department of Art Education, FSU, defended Spring 2010
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PH.D. MAJOR PROFESSOR
Matthew Lupu, political philosophy in Late Antiquity, Department of Classics, FSU, in progress
Alex Lee, ancient philosophy and historiography, Department of Classics, FSU, 2015–2018
Jonathan Reeder, rhetoric and medicine in antiquity, Department of Classics, FSU, 2015–2018
DIRECTED M.A. THESES
M.A. Thesis, Emma Hughes, “Epicurean Epistemology,” completed Spring 2012
M.A. Thesis, Jacquelyn Clements, “Phenomenology of the Soul,” completed Spring 2007
DIRECTED M.A. PAPERS
M.A. Paper, Matthew Herzog, “Women and the Art of Divination,” to be completed Spring 2020
M.A. Paper, Janet Spiller, “The Cult of Asclepius in 5th BCE,” completed Spring 2019
M.A. Paper, Matthew Lupu, “Julian’s Platonopolis?,” completed Spring 2018
M.A. Paper, Austin Lee Ard, “Latin AP Tests and Techniques to Learn a Foreign Language,” completed Spring 2017
M.A. Paper, Ledio Hysi, “Hesiod and the Beginning of Ancient Economy,” completed Spring 2017
M.A. Paper, Theodora Naqvi, “The Social Content of Speech Disorder in Ancient Rome,” completed Spring 2017
M.A. Paper, Jenni Royce, “Images of Power: Galienus,” completed Spring 2016
M.A. Paper, Chelsea Stutz, “Byzantine Empresses,” completed Spring 2016
M.A. Paper, Brittany Wright, “For Good or Ill: The Duality of Circe,” completed December 2015
M.A. Paper, Alexander Lee, “Enkrateia in Xenophon’s Hiero,” completed Spring 2015
M.A. Paper, Destini Price, “Impeaching Theseus: Solon as Social Demiurge in Plato’s Critias,” completed Spring 2013
M.A. Paper, Jamie Feldman, “Plato’s Cratylus,” completed Spring 2013
M.A. Paper, Thomas Patterniti, “Weight and Influence in Statius’ Thebaid,” completed Fall 2012 SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 18
M.A. Paper, David Reed, “Plato’s Ion,” completed Spring 2011
M.A. Paper, Monica Corthright, “The Failing Arguments in Plato,” completed Spring 2011
M.A. Paper, Megan Kabella, “Fatal Weapons of Female Power,” completed Spring 2007
DIRECTED B.A. HONORS THESES
Jacob Dvorak, “’Not a Tale of Alcinous:’ A Reading of Plato’s Myth of Er,” to be completed Spring 2020
Cassidy Phelps, “Weaving, Writing, and Women: A Case Study of Etruscan Sigla on Loom Weights,” completed Spring 2012
Mitchell Whitehead, “Ancient Malaria,” completed Spring 2010
Ashley Joseph, “Evolution of Ancient Surgical Instruments,” completed Spring 2010
James Hosler, “Porphyry’s Cave of the Nymphs,” completed Spring 2008
DIRECTED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Sergio Carlos Tamez, “Omina Imperii in the Age of Iconoclasm: Inside the Struggle for the Soul of an Empire,” Fall 2019
Jacob Dvorak, “The Professional Profile of the Physician in Antiquity,” Spring 2017
Darrell Kilpatrick, “Medicine in Late Antiquity,” Spring 2015
MEMBER OF DISSERTATION, M.A. THESIS/PAPER, AND GRADUATE EXAM COMMITTEES
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
M.A. Paper, Matthew Lupu, completed Spring 2016
M.A. Paper, Sarah Gladwin, completed Spring 2012
M.A. Paper, Jordan Samuels, completed Fall 2012
M.A. Paper, Stephanie Kimmie, completed 2010
M.A. Paper, Laura Hauvenac, completed Fall 2010 SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 19
M.A. Thesis, Kate Alsobrook, completed 2008
M.A. Thesis, Jamieson Donati, completed 2003
Ph.D. Dissertation, Charles Blume, defended Fall 2016
Ph.D. Dissertation, Reema Habib, defended Spring 2017
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
Ph.D. Dissertation, Joshua Cline, defended 2007
M.A. Exams, Whitney Mutch, Spring 2006
M.A. Thesis, Joshua Cline, defended 2004
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION
Ph.D. Dissertation, Carson Bay, defended in Fall 2018
Ph.D. Dissertation, Jacob Lollar, defended in Summer 2018
Ph.D. Dissertation, Jennifer Collins-Eliott, in progress
Ph.D. Dissertation, Thomas Whitney, defended Spring 2016
Ph.D. Dissertation, Seth Bledsoe, defended Summer 2015
Ph.D. Dissertation, Jordan Smith, defended Summer 2008
Ph.D. Dissertation, Jeanne Heisler, “Apostolic Bee,” defended Summer 2006
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Heather Bailey, Ph.D. Exams and Dissertation, in progress
Marie Hause, Ph.D. Exams and Dissertation, defended, Spring 2016
PROGRAM IN INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES
Patrick Carson, Liminality, Embodiment and the Six Healing Sounds of Qigong, Ph.D. Dissertation, defended Spring 2015
Tammy Whitehead, “The Illustrations of Lydgate’s Troy Book: The Visual Revitalization of a Literary Tradition in Fifteenth-Century England,” Ph.D. Dissertation, defended Spring 2015 SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 20
Yiyi Wang, “Cultural Trauma and Signifying Practices: A case Study of Effigy-like Female Characters in American and European War Related Films,” Ph.D. Dissertation, defended Spring 2013
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Mark Walters, “Verdi’s Rigoletto,” Ph.D. Dissertation, defended 2007
MEMBER OF B.A. HONORS THESIS COMMITTEES
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
Colin Behrens, “Christians and Pagans,” completed Spring 2016
Aaron Brown, “The Art of Binding Magic: Engraved Images on Defixiones,” completed Spring 2013
Charles Carver, “Inter-literary Motifs in Greek Tragedy,” completed Spring 2011
Karen Meyer, “Athena, the Goddess of War,” completed Spring 2010
Abbe Walker, “Plutarch’s Attitude to Women,” completed Spring 2007
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Jordan Goodson, completed Spring 2018
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION
Adam Cushing, completed Fall 2010
FILM SCHOOL
Kelsey Fowler, Nothing Special, completed Spring 2006
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES
Matthew Harrington, “The Supplication of Daniel the Prisoner and Monastic Compilation,” completed 2004
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
Angeliki Beyko, “Exploring the Effects of Motivation on Visual Processing,” completed Spring 2012
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 21
Joshua Koerner, “Epigenetic Effects of Luteolin,” completed Spring 2012
SERVICE HISTORY
DEPARTMENT
Associate Chair, Department of Classics, Florida State University 2014–2019
Director of Graduate Studies 2014–2019
Chair of Philology Committee 2016–2018
Associate Chair, Department of Classics, Florida State University 2010–2012
Director of Undergraduate Studies 2009–2012
Chair of Langford Conference Committee 2008
Supervisor of Graduate Teaching Assistants 2007
Chair of Curriculum Committee 2007
Departmental Newsletter Editor 2005–2007
Graduate Admissions Committee 2005–2010
Editor of The Latin Bulletin 2001–2005
Eta Sigma Phi Faculty Advisor 2001–2007
Latin Outreach Committee, Chair 2001–2009
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies 2004–2005
FSU Classics Website Designer and Editor 2001–2005
UNIVERSITY
Member of the Graduate Policy Review Committee, Department of Religion 2019
Member of the Advisory Board of the Office of Faculty Recognition 2012
Chair of the Liberal Studies Committee, FSU 2010–2011 SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 22
Faculty Senate, Alternate 2009–2012, 2014–2015
University Liberal Studies Committee 2009–2010
Advisory Council for Innovative Instruction 2006–2009
DISCIPLINE
ISNS Annual Meeting, Program Committee Member 2020
ISNS Travel Award Committee Member 2016
Board Member of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies 2014–present
Research Grant Reviewer for KU Leuven, Belgium March 2015
External Reviewer for a Habilitation, University of Sofia, Bulgaria March 2014
CAMWS Vice-President for the State of Florida 2007–2013
Organized the FSU participation in the Local Latin Forum and participated as a judge 2002–2008
Judge for the High School Classics Essay Contest in the State of Florida Spring 2012
Reviewer for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, CAMWS 2001
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER
Routledge
Brill
Cambridge University Press
University of California Press
Hackett Publishing
Parmenides Press
Classical Journal
Classical World
Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture SLAVEVA-GRIFFIN 23
Journal of Hellenic Studies
Journal of the History of Ideas
The British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Philozophija
GRANT APPLICATION REVIEWER
IPODI an international postdoc fellowship program of the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Research Council of University of Leuven, Belgium
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
University of Tennessee, Webmaster of the Department of Classics 2000–2001
Suda Online, Editor 1999–2000
University of Iowa, Editorial Assistant for Syllecta Classica, vols. 4–8 1992–1998
Copy–editing of J. Dillon and J. Finamore, De Anima, text and translation 1995–1996
Developing a database for Greek and Latin for Vocabulary Building course 1994
ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK
Bulgaria Excavations at the Iayla Late Antiquity Complex 1985
Bulgaria Excavations at the Diadovo Prehistorical Complex 1983