BART VAN WASSENHOVE
Lecturer
University Scholars Programme,
National University of Singapore
uspbvw@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516 4611
Brief Introduction
Dr Bart Van Wassenhove is a Lecturer in the University Scholars Programme (USP) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his PhD in Classics from the University of Chicago in 2016 with a dissertation on Moral Admonition and the Emotions in Seneca’s Philosophical Works.
Dr Van Wassenhove is currently the director of the USP Writing Centre. Learn more about him in this interview under USP Highlights.
Teaching Modules @ USP
Dr Van Wassenhove teaches in the domains of Writing and Critical Thinking, and Humanities and Social Sciences. He offers the following modules:
Research Interests
- History of philosophy, especially ancient Greek and Roman
- Cultural history, particularly the history of the emotions
- Ancient rhetoric and historiography
Selected Titles of Independent Study Modules (ISMs) Previously Supervised (for USP students)
- Olympic Values and the Athletic Imagination from Ancient Greece to the Present
- Being And Time In Huxley's Existentialist Dystopia
- Neo-Confucianism as a Way of Life
- Rewriting Greek Epic in a Novel Time
Recent Publications
- "Moral Sententiae and Progressor Emotions in Seneca’s Philosophical Works", Classical Philology 116.4, 2021.
- "Inebriation and Philosophical Enthusiasm in Seneca’s De Tranquillitate Animi" (with Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides), Scripta Classica Israelica 39, 2020.