About
ROBERT ZASLAVSKY received a BA in Philosophy and English from Temple University, and an MA and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. In addition, he has done graduate work in English at New York University and in education at Cabrini College. At Cabrini College, he served also as interim Secondary Education Advisor (observing and evaluating student teachers).
In addition to his two decades of teaching Latin and Greek in private and public middle and high schools, he has taught courses in Literature, Religion, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Film, and Art History on the university level and in secondary private and public schools.
He is the author of Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing and The First Latin Course: An Introductory Latin Grammar for Middle School, High School, and College. In addition, he has published scholarly essays on Plato, Aristotle, classical philology, detective fiction, Shakespeare, and Homer. He has been a guest op-ed columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Fort Worth Weekly. Most recently, he has contributed a regular op-ed column to the Atlanta (GA) weekly The Sunday Paper, writing on politics, technology, language, and education. Currently, he is a theatrical judge on the play and musical panels of the Suzi Bass Awards (Atlanta, GA).
He has made presentations to the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, the Texas Foreign Language Association, and the Southern Conference on Language Teaching on methods of teaching an inflected language for today’s students and on teaching students strategies for learning and translation. Furthermore, he has been a guest lecturer on Greek philosophy, on Shakespeare, on poetry, on methods of textual study, and on the Bible, Maimonides, and Milton.
His next two books will be a study of American education and a commentary on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
He resides in Decatur, GA.
