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Matteo Milesi serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin's College of Liberal Arts, appointed in 2024 after holding a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Kalamazoo College. His scholarship bridges ancient philosophy, history of science, and digital humanities to examine interpretative practices in the ancient Mediterranean world.
His academic formation includes:
- BA (Laurea Triennale) in Classics, Università degli Studi di Milano (2014)
- MA in Classics, University of Durham (2015)
- MA in Philosophy and PhD in Classics, University of Michigan (2023)
Dr. Milesi specializes in Imperial and Late Antique intellectual history, with core expertise in Porphyry of Tyre's exegetical methods as explored in his dissertation Philology and Philosophy in Porphyry of Tyre: Reading, Interpretation, and Authority at the Edge of Late Antiquity. His research integrates Neoplatonic philosophy, ancient literary criticism, and early Christian hermeneutics to analyze how cultural capital shaped textual interpretation and authority-building. Additional work investigates historical science through debates like Ptolemy and Porphyry's analysis of sound-pitches, tracing ancient theories of emergent properties and supervenience. In digital humanities, he develops accessible platforms like the Aratus Project, which combines scholarly commentary with visualizations of astronomical phenomena from Aratus’s Phaenomena.
He teaches courses including Classical Mythology (CC 303), Homer's Iliad (GK 324), and seminars on Plato/Plutarch (GK 365/GK 385), while advancing his dissertation into a monograph and expanding research into ancient scientific thought through digital methodologies.
