For over 40 years Michael Davis taught philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College, at the same time teaching in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and then in the Graduate Program in Political Theory at Fordham University.  Davis works primarily in Greek philosophy, in moral and political philosophy, and in what might be called the “poetics” of philosophy. He is the translator, with Seth Benardete, of Aristotle's On Poetics and has written on a variety of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger and of literary figures ranging from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Saul Bellow and Tom Stoppard.  Davis has most recently written an introduction to the marvelous collection of poetry by S.J. Hodson called New Songs of Innocence.  All of this is fine, but he is especially proud to be the author of the current Dean of your college.