David Hayes

David Hayes received his B.A. in English from Kenyon College in 1992 and his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago with a dissertation on Early Greek Lyric Poetry. He came to Bard College Berlin as a fellow in 2005.

Classes taught at Bard College Berlin
Core courses

• Plato's Republic and Its Interlocutors (coordinator 2008, 2009)
• Forms of Love
• Property
• Innocence and Experience
• Objectivity and Self-Knowledge
• Character

Electives and Foundational Modules

• Short Dialogues of Plato
• The Odyssey
• Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• Introduction to Poetry
• Comedies of Remarriage
• Poetry and Philosophy
• Tragic Character
• Huckleberry Finn

Coordinator of the 2010 Annual Conference: The Translator

General Teaching Interests:
Greek philosophy and literature, poetry

Publications:

• “Piety as a Virtue,” The Journal of Value Inquiry (2020). Co-authored with Jeremy Schwartz. 
• “In Praise of Lameness: A Response to William Deresiewicz’s Excellent Sheep,” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (2019)
• "The Iliad now," The New Criterion (September, 2015)
• "Against critical thinking pedagogy," Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (2015)
• "When BS Is a Virtue," The Chronicle of Higher Education (2014)
• Three Translations of Theognis: "Not Even Zeus," "Those Wings of Yours," "Decline," The Utopian (2010-11)

Contact
Dr. David Hayes
Greek Philosophy and Literature
Phone: +49 30 43733 203
Email: d.hayes[at]berlin.bard.edu