Marina Marren is a post-doctoral teaching fellow with the Department of Philosophy. She completed her PhD at Boston College, where she wrote a dissertation on tyranny in Plato, Sophocles, and Aristophanes. In 2015 – 2016, she was a visiting fellow at Freiburg University in Germany, where she researched ancient Greek philology. Marren’s primary research area is ancient Greek philosophy and literature. Her research projects engage topics in political philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics. Both in her research and teaching, Marren seeks to put the philosophical ideas in conversation with the practical concerns of life. Her latest philosophical work focuses on the ethical value of humor.Marina Marren is a post-doctoral teaching fellow with the Department of Philosophy. She completed her PhD at Boston College, where she wrote a dissertation on tyranny in Plato, Sophocles, and Aristophanes. In 2015 – 2016, she was a visiting fellow at Freiburg University in Germany, where she researched ancient Greek philology. Marren’s primary research area is ancient Greek philosophy and literature. Her research projects engage topics in political philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics. Both in her research and teaching, Marren seeks to put the philosophical ideas in conversation with the practical concerns of life. Her latest philosophical work focuses on the ethical value of humor.

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