Joshua Billings

Joshua Billings (DPhil Oxford) is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research focuses on Greek literature and philosophy and modern intellectual history, with a particular concentration on tragedy. He has published one monograph, Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy (Princeton 2014) and two co-edited volumes, Choruses, Ancient and Modern (Oxford 2013) and Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity (Oxford 2015). At CHS, he will be working on a project on drama and intellectual culture at the end of the fifth century BC, provisionally entitled “Enlightenment on stage.”