Jill Gordon

Jill Gordon is the NEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita and Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Colby College. She is a founding member and former Director of the Ancient Philosophy Society (APS). She is the author of two monographs, Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato’s Dialogues (1999) and Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death (2012), and the editor of one collected volume, Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece (2022). She is currently working on another monograph, Sex Difference and Platonic World Order: A Reading of Timaeus, and is a contributor to the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Women in Ancient Greek Philosophy. In addition to these, she has published many journal articles and book chapters in ancient Greek philosophy. Although primarily a Plato scholar, she has also taught and published widely in social and political philosophy, including journal articles on John Stuart Mill and the “marketplace of ideas,” black embodiment and the argument against idealism in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, John Locke and Malcolm X on the right to revolution, and several others.