Curriculum Vitae
B.A., Classics, University of Notre Dame, 2013; M.A., Classics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015; Ph.D., Classics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2018; S.T.B., Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, 2021; Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, 2023-2025; Teacher, St. Thomas More Academy, 2024-2025; Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College, 2025-.
Profile
Dale Parker is a classicist by trade. It all started with a trip to Greece and Italy his senior year of high school, which filled him with a sense of wonder for classical antiquity and a thirst to learn Latin and Greek. He followed up on the trip by earning a B.A. in Classics from the University of Notre Dame (’13) and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Los Angeles (’18). His dissertation treated dialectic in Plato and Aristotle.
After graduating from UCLA, Dr. Parker lived in Rome for four years, studying theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
After his time in the Eternal City, Dr. Parker taught at the University of Notre Dame and St. Thomas More Academy (South Bend). It was then that he decided to apply to become a tutor at Thomas Aquinas College. “The College had been on my radar since high school,” he said, “and I had a great admiration for its curriculum.” During the interview process, “that admiration only increased as I saw how engaged the students were in their seminars and tutorials. I wanted to be a part of that.”
Publications
- “How Talented is A. in the First Book of Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations?” Classical Philology 120.4 (2025): 531-542.
- “The Inconsistency Charge in De Finibus I-II.” Classical Quarterly (2024): 124-134.
- “Plato’s Protagoras as an ἀγὼν λόγων.” Hermes 149.1 (2021): 19-30.
- “The Prologue of the Protagoras as a School of Dialectic.” Ancient Philosophy 41.2 (2021): 291-297.
Papers Presented
- “Aristotelian Refutations in the Protagoras and Gorgias.” Society for Classical Studies 149th Annual Meeting, Boston, 2018.
- “Semantic Development of Hypsos in the Septuagint.” SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, 2017.
- “Pragmatic Disruption: Functional Grammar and Formulae in the Iliad.” Classical Association of the Middle West and South 111th Annual Meeting, Boulder, 2015.