Associate Professor of Letters
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Associate Professor, Education Studies

BA Colgate University
PHD Northwestern University

Tushar Irani's research focuses on Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He is the author of Plato on the Value of Philosophy: The Art of Argument in the Gorgias and Phaedrus (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the co-editor of the recent volume of essays, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Historical, Contemporary, and Pedagogical Perspectives (Wiley, 2020). Irani holds a joint appointment at Wesleyan in the Department of Philosophy and the College of Letters. Beginning in the spring of 2021, he will be serving as Director of the College of Letters. In addition to his work on Plato, he has interests in questions of philosophical method, philosophy as a way of life, the history and practice of rhetoric, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, and the history of ethics (especially virtue ethics). For his professional website, see here.

Dean for Academic Equity, Inclusion & Success

BA Yale University
PHD University of St Andrews

Additional programs:  First Things First (FTF), Wesleyan Math & Science Scholars (WesMaSS), Upward Bound programs, McNair Program, Student Ombuds