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Thomas Bartscherer is the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard. His interests include literature and philosophy in antiquity, the reception of ancient motifs in modern and contemporary culture, and the history and practice of liberal education. He also writes for performance: Stranger Love, an opera he created with composer Dylan Mattingly, will premiere in Los Angeles in 2023. He is the editor of Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Arts and Humanities; Erotikon: Essay on Eros, Ancient and Modern; and When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice (forthcoming). He is currently editing the new critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind. Prof. Bartscherer studied at University of Chicago (PhD) and has held fellowships at the École Normale in Paris and the University of Heidelberg and visiting positions as Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and as Senior Fellow at the Freie Universität’s Center for Advanced Film Studies.