Andrea Wilson Nightingale is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (1995), Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context (2004), and 'Once out of Nature': Augustine on Time and the Body (forthcoming). She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center. She has been a Stanford Fellow (2004 6) and is presently serving as a Harvard Senior Fellow of the Hellenic Center (2009 13).