Andres Matlock

Assistant Professor

Director of the Rome Program

Andres’s research ranges widely over ancient and modern literature, centering on questions of time, nature and authorship. Both his dissertation (UCLA, 2020) and his current monograph-project, Dreams of Brutus: Cicero and Freud on Mind and Text, deal with the relationship between psychological experience and writing, using comparative methodologies and an interpretative focus on form. In addition to Cicero and Freud, Andres publishes and presents research on Roman agricultural writing and its connections to ecology, economics and aesthetics.

Andres teaches courses in Latin and ancient Greek, comparative literature and thought, as well as on the influences of ancient Mediterranean cultures in other periods and places. He is the instructor for UGA in Rome, a summer study abroad program that visits Greece and Italy.

Education

Education:

University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Ph.D, Classics (completed 2020)
Dissertation: “Time and Experience in Cicero’s Ethical Dialogues.”

Research

Research Areas:

Classical Culture

Classical Languages and Literatures

Classical Reception

Archaeology and Art/Architecture History

Inclusive Excellence

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Monograph under preparation: "Dreams of Brutus: Cicero and Freud on Mind and Text"

Forthcoming: “Autothanatography: Freud and Cicero on knowing the self through the death of the other,” in Daniel Orrells, Paul Allen Miller, and Richard Armstrong eds., Bloomsbury Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Classical Reception, Bloomsbury.

Forthcoming: “Feral Futures, or The Animal That Therefore I Am Not (Less to Follow),” in Sean Gurd and Mario Telò, eds., The Before and the After: Critical Asynchrony Now, Punctum Books.

Forthcoming: “The Slow Aesthetic Pulse of Emptiness,” co-authored with Melissa Freeman, Jon Biron, Giovanni Dazzo, Maureen Flint, Christina Hanawalt, Ruth Harman, Kyunghwa Lee, Katherine Melcher and Aliki Nicolaides, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education.

2024: “Shadow and Stone: Niobe in Stoicism and Platonism,” in Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin, eds., Niobes: Antiquity/Modernity/Critical Theory, The Ohio State University Press: 114–128.

2023: “Quae natura caduca est: Cicero and Lucretius on Ecological Change,” Ciceroniana Online 7.2: 543–577.