Richard Peevers

Research Associate
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
University of California, Irvine
3450 Berkeley Place
Irvine, CA 92697-5550

Phone (949) 824-1989
Fax (949) 824-8434
e-mail: rpeevers@uci.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Academic

From 2001      Research Associate

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, University of California, Irvine

1998 - 2002     PhD in Classical Literature

• The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg, Germany
  
  • Thesis title: Continuity, rupture and crossroads: Reading the history of trends in Platonic philosophy
  • Supervisor: Professor Ken Dowden
  • Funded by the AHRB

From 2001     Co-founder and Co-Editor of Digressus - The Internet Journal for the Classical World

• www.digressus.org

1995 - 1998     BA in Greek and Roman Studies

• The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Teaching Experience

1998 - 2001     Postgraduate Teacher

• The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Taught and co-wrote courses for both undergraduates and postgraduates in the following areas:
    • Greek Language
    • Greek and Latin Literature
    • Greek and Roman Culture
    • Christianity, Greek and Roman Religions
    • IT and the Classics

Summer 2000     DOPLA teacher training course

• Birmingham, United Kingdom

1999 - 2001     Private Language Tuition

• Birmingham, United Kingdom and Marburg, Germany
  • Beginners' and intermediate English language and literature
  • Intermediate German language

Selected Employment History

2000 - 2001     Translator and Proofreader

• Marburg, Germany and Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Worked extensively as a German-English translator and proofreader for scientific, economic and historical texts.

1998 - 2001     Hall Tutor

• Griffin Close, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Responsibilities included: pastoral care, counseling, discipline, safety.Chair of Safety and Security committee.

Training

First Aid.     Trained in first aid by St John's Ambulance, Birmingham 2000

Counselor.     Trained as a counselor, Birmingham, 1999

Languages

Ancient Greek      (degree level)

Latin      (degree level)

German      (Zentrale Mittelstufenpruefung)

French      (reading knowledge)

Italian      (reading knowledge)

Swedish      (beginners' level)

IT Skills

Wide experience of various operating systems

Extensive knowledge of HTML 4.01 and JavaScript

Papers at Conferences

On Being too Pythagorean to be a Platonist     (Classical Association Conference, Manchester, April 2001)

Platonism and Philo's Bible: On Reading Ancient Fiction     (Warwick, October 2000)

The Endings of Platonism     (Birmingham, December 1999)

The Neopythagoreans: A figment of the nineteenth century imagination?     (Keele, February 1999)

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