Dr. David Oliver Davies
Assistant Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Classics
English, Classics
Office Location: Braniff 366
Office Phone: 972-721-5213
davies@udallas.edu
Teaching Fields & Research Interests
Milton
Classical Traditions in English Literature
Philosophical Foundations of Literary Criticism
Classical Tragedy & Comedy
Classical Epic
Roman Lyric Poetry
Education
BA (Philosophy and History): University of Rochester
MA (Classics): University of Rochester
PhD (Classics): State University of New York at Buffalo
Scholarship & Work in Progress
i. Dissertation
“The Education of Socrates in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus” (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1989).
ii. Monographs and Articles
1. Davies, D.O. et al. Agnellus of Ravenna, Arethusa Monograph VIII, SUNY at Buffalo, (1981).
2. Davies, D.O. and Dowling, P. “Shrewd books, with dangerous Frontispieces’: Areopagitica’s Motto,” Milton Quarterly Vol. 20, no. 2 (May 1986).
“Eve’s First Words: Ovidian Wit, Platonic Self-Knowledge & Milton’s Translations in Paradise Lost 4.440-491”.Classical and Modern Literature Vol. 27 No. 2 (Winter 2008).
Davies, D.O. Milton’s Socratic Rationalism: The Conversations of Adam an Eve in Paradise Lost, Lexington Books, (2017).
iii. Reviews
Michael Davis The Poetry of Philosophy: Aristotle’s Poetics, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham : 1992, in the Review of Politics.
iv. Work in Progress
“A Spectacle of Innocence: Book IV of Paradise Lost”
“On such gentle acts as these”: Milton’s Sonnet VIII”