Robert Mayhew, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Philosophy

Professor Mayhew's primary research interests are in ancient philosophy. His most recent publications in this field are the books Aristotle’s Lost Homeric Problems (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and Theophrastus: On Winds (Brill, 2018), as well as a number of essays on Aristotelian philosophy and science published over the past two years in the following journals: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology; Journal of Hellenic Studies; Philologus: Zeitschrift für antike Literatur und ihre Rezeption; Rheinisches Museum für Philologie; Eikasmós: Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica; Hyperboreus: Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana; Classical Quarterly; Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie; and, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Dr. Mayhew also has an interest in the 20th century novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. His most recent publication on Rand is an annotated edition of her previously unpublished play The Unconquered (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014).