For 2022-23, we are pleased to announced two new Gilson Seminar Postdoctoral Fellows: Dr. Robin D’Souza and Dr. Thomas Slabon.
Dr. Robin D’Souza received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Toronto in the spring of 2022. Her dissertation examines the use of chivalric romance in twentieth-century British literature. More recently, Dr. D’Souza has been investigating and digitally transcribing David Jones’s writings as part of an international collaborative effort, the David Jones Digital Archive. Dr. D’Souza hopes that her current research on Jones (among others) will be included in her new book-length project, Modernism and the Ways of Re-enchantment: Chivalric Romance in Interwar Britain. Dr. D’Souza has been married to her husband David for five years, and they have two children, Felix and Rose.
Dr. Thomas Slabon was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario. He received a BA in Philosophy and Classics and an MA in Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and completed a PhD in Philosophy at Stanford University. Dr. Slabon specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, but has wide-ranging interests in classical philology, Chinese philosophy, philosophical theology, contemporary moral philosophy, and patristics. His dissertation focuses on the use of typological structures in Plato, Aristotle, and the neo-Platonists. When not reading philosophy, Thomas enjoys road biking, classical music, and playing board games.
Dr. Mehmet Ciftci and Dr. Bernadette Guthrie have concluded their time as Gilson Seminar Postdoctoral Fellows. Dr. Guthrie will continue at the College as the Acting Director of the Junior Fellows Program. We thank both Dr. Ciftci and Dr. Guthrie for their contributions to the College during their time as postdoctoral fellows.