Johannes Baltussen

Professor Johannes Baltussen serves as the W.W. Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide and held the Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies (January 14–February 20, 2023). His research centers on the intellectual history of the Greco-Roman world from classical antiquity through late antiquity, examining human responses to existential challenges like grief and censorship.

Baltussen specializes in Ancient Philosophy and Intellectual History, with significant contributions to the study of Aristotle's school, Peripatetic thought, and late antique Platonism. His major publications include Theophrastus Against the Presocratics and Plato (2000), The Peripatetics (2015), and Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator (2008). Current projects involve a monograph on self-consolation, a cultural history of love, and pain narratives in Greco-Roman literature.

His distinguished fellowships include:

• Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies (2023)
• Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship
• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Fellowship

As the W.W. Hughes Professor at Adelaide, Baltussen leads research in Classical Studies with ongoing projects in consolation literature and ancient commentary traditions. The source material indicates no available details regarding graduate student supervision or specific research grants.