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Matthew Vanderkwaak

Matthew Vanderkwaak

Faculty Fellow

| Foundation Year Program

| Faculty Member

Matthew Vanderkwaak Matthew Vanderkwaak
matthew.vanderkwaak@ukings.ca
Office Hours

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Wednesdays & Fridays
Office 265c, A&A building, basement

AA Music (Briercrest), BA (Briercrest), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (University College Dublin)

Matthew Vanderkwaak is a faculty fellow in the Foundation Year Program. He completed his MA in Classics at Dalhousie studying late-ancient Neoplatonism and wrote his PhD dissertation, “Noble soul and the Metaphysics of Celestial Life,” at University College Dublin. His dissertation examines the reception of Greek and Arabic Neoplatonism in the Latin commentary tradition on the Book of Causes. Matthew is interested in the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions, mysticism, Neoplatonism, and the transmission of texts and ideas between the Greek, Arabic and Latin speaking worlds.

Mattthew is also a poet, visual artist and musician. You can read more about his work at matthewjoel.substack.com.