Martin Anil Kumar Sastri Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame

715 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5629

msastri@nd.edu CITIZENSHIP: Canada AREA OF SPECIALTY: Medieval Philosophy AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Theology, History of Ethics EDUCATION Ph.D, Medieval Studies, expected, Fall 2012 M.M.S., Medieval Studies, 2008 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN M.A. in Classics, 2006 Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B.A. in Classics (Honours), 2004 Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B.Hum., Humanities with Concentration in Philosophy (Honours), 2003 Carleton University, Ottawa, ON DISSERTATION “The Influence and Continuity of Eriugenian Philosophy in Twelfth-Century France” Director: Stephen Gersh Committee: Charles Barber, Brian Daley, Cyril O’Regan My dissertation determines the philosophical consequences of a renewed interest in the writings of John Scottus Eriugena in twelfth-century France. The application of Eriugenian positions to twelfth-century philosophical concerns had a profound impact on issues such as the reconciliation of Dionysian hierarchy with Augustinian immediacy, the understanding of nature as the product of an emanative procession, and the problem of universals. Specific analysis is directed to the solutions to these problems – together with the direct or mediated encounter with Eriugenian philosophy that informed these solutions – proposed by Honorius Augustodunensis, Alan of Lille, Hugh of St. Victor, William of Lucca, and Thierry of Chartres. AWARDS AND HONOURS Kaneb Center Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, Notre Dame, 2009. Chesterton Rhetoric Competition Finalist, Graduate Student Union, Notre Dame, 2009. Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship, 2008. University Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 2006-12. Travel Grant, Dalhousie University Association of Graduate Students, 2006. Travel Grant, Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies, 2005. Full Graduate Studies Funding, Dalhousie University, 2005-6.

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Teaching Assistant Stipend, Dalhousie University, 2004-6. Entrance Scholarship, Carleton University, 1997. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of King’s College Teaching Fellow, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Directed tutorials following lectures in the Foundation Year Programme. Tutorials were designed to engage students in discussion concerning the day’s lecture and assigned readings. Held full responsibility for grading papers, which were assigned every other week, and for tutorial performance. University of Notre Dame Instructor, Fall 2008 – Spring 2009 Taught Introductory Greek, which was designed and structured in consultation with the Department of Classics. Held full responsibility for instruction and grading. Joint Instructor, Spring 2008 Taught Marcus Tullius Cicero: Lawyer, Politician, Philosopher, with Professor Sabine MacCormack. Held joint responsibility for leading seminar discussion and grading; collaborated on the form and content of essay questions. Syllabus designed by Prof. MacCormack. Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007 Assisted in Alexander the Great. Graded student papers and delivered a lecture on Hellenistic literature and philosophy. Dalhousie Univeristy Teaching Assistant, Fall 2004 – Spring 2005, and Fall 2005 – Spring 2006 Assisted in Classical Mythology. Graded student papers and delivered lectures on Vergil and St. Augustine. PUBLICATIONS “Sed Iohannes praecucurrit citius Petro…primo intrat Petrus in monumentum, deinde Iohannes. Eriugena’s Appropriation of Dionysian Exegesis in the Homilia,” Dionysius (forthcoming). “The Influence of Plotinian Metaphysics in St. Augustine’s Conception of the Spiritual Senses,” Dionysius, XXIV (2006): 99-124.

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PRESENTATIONS “Sed Iohannes praecucurrit citius Petro…primo intrat Petrus in monumentum, deinde Iohannes. Eriugena’s Appropriation of Dionysian Exegesis in the Homilia,” Classical Association of Canada, Dalhousie University, May, 2011. “What’s Wrong with a Good Old-Fashioned Theocracy?,” Chesterton Rhetoric Competition, University of Notre Dame, February, 2009. “The Augustinian Conception of Spiritus as Mediator,” Atlantic Classical Association, Dalhousie University, October, 2007. “The Neoplatonic Origins of Michel Henry’s Phenomenological Christianity,” International Society of Neoplatonic Studies, Université Laval, Québec, PQ, June, 2006. “Paradise Remembered and Regained: Memory and its Relation to the Earthly Paradise in St. Augustine’s Confessions,” 10th annual Graduate Colloquium, Department of Classics, University of Virginia, March, 2006. “To Include and to be Included: Ammianus’ Use of Juvenal in the Res Gestae,” ‘Sticks and Stones, Speeches and Songs: A Graduate Conference on Ancient Invective’, Brown University, November, 2005. “Aristotle on the Undivided Good for Man,” Atlantic Classical Association, Acadia University, October, 2005. “The Persistence of Myth in Plato’s Representations of the Doctrine of Anamnesis,” Public Seminar delivered at the Department of Classics, Dalhousie University, January, 2005. RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Editorial Assistant for Dionysius, Journal of the Department of Classics, Dalhousie University, 2004-2006. Translation, “God and Philosophy According to Levinas,” from the original, “Dieu et la philosophie selon Lévinas,” by Jean-Marc Narbonne. Translation presented by the author at a conference in 2004. LANGUAGES French: reading, writing, and speaking Classical and Medieval Latin: reading and writing Classical Greek: reading and writing German: reading Italian: reading