David Hayes received his B.A. in English from Kenyon College in 1992 and is currently A.B.D. at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He came to ECLA as a fellow in 2005. In 2010, he co-presented a paper entitled "Piety as Gratitude in Plato's Euthyphro" in the Philosophy Department lecture series at Texas Tech University. He has recently published three translations from the Greek poet Theognis in the online journal The Utopian.

Classes taught at ECLA:

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

Electives: Introduction to Poetry, Comedies of Remarriage, Poetry and Philosophy, Tragic Character, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, The Odyssey

Coordinator of the 2010 State of the World Week: The Translator

General Teaching Interests:
Greek philosophy and literature, poetry