Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Dr. Charis Jo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Classics at Brown. She researches theories of classical education from classical antiquity to the modern age, from Ancient Greece and China to modern England and Rwanda. Her particular interest is how the philosophy of language gets expressed (and, in turn, formed) by pedagogy and didactic literature of the liberal arts traditions. Charis earned her DPhil (PhD) in Classics from the University of Oxford with a thesis on Augustine’s De dialectica (OUP, forthcoming). While at Oxford, Charis also founded and co-directed the Janus Project (https://janus-project.org/) for researching the intersection between Greco-Roman and East Asian literary cultures, held lectureships at Oriel and Magdalen colleges, and founded the Oxford Ancient Languages Society (https://www.oxfordancientlanguages.com/) and Oxford Latinitas (https://www.oxfordlatinitas.org/). At Brown, she is writing a public-facing book on the history of classical education.