Drew A. Hyland came to Trinity in 1967 after having begun his teaching career at the University of Toronto in 1964.  He is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy.  He has also taught graduate courses at Boston University and the New School for Social Research.  His scholarly and teaching interests include Ancient Greek Philosophy, 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Sport, and Philosophy of Art.  He is the author of numerous articles and a number of books, including Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues, Philosophy of Sport, The Question of Play, Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpreters of Plato, and Plato and the Question of Beauty.

His teaching philosophy arises out of a deep commitment to the Socratic teaching that “the unexamined life is not worth living.”  The intense and passionate examination of core philosophic texts in class is preparation for an intense and passionate examination of the core issues of our lives.  That examination means that the fundamental standpoint of philosophy, and therefore of teaching, is questioning.  In 1990 he was the recipient of Trinity’s Brownell Prize for excellence in teaching, and in 2010 he received the Trustee Award for Faculty Excellence.

Books:

• Heterotopias: In Philosophy, Aesthetics, Politics, edited with Andrew Haas. Lexington Books, forthcoming.
• Plato and the Question of Beauty. Indiana University Press, 2008.
• Heidegger and the Greeks, edited with John Manoussakis. Indiana University Press, 2006.
• Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpreters of Plato. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2004. Translated into German by Erik Vogt, 2004.
• Teaching Matters: Essays on Liberal Education at the Millenium, edited with M.W. McLaughlin and J. Ronald Spencer. Hartford: Trinity College Press, 1998.
• Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995.
• The Philosophy of Sport. New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1990. Translated into Korean, 2001.
• The Question of Play. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.
• The Virtue of Philosophy: An Interpretation of Plato's Charmides. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1981.
• The Origins of Philosophy: Its Rise in Myth and the Pre Socratics. New York: Putnam's, 1973. Translated into Spanish, 1979.

• Trustee Award for Faculty Excellence, 2010.
• Faculty Research Grant, “Postmodern Readings of Plato,” Fall, 2001.
• Distinguished Scholar Award, Philosophical Society for the Study of Sport, June, 1998.
• Faculty Research Grant, Fall, 1994.
• Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence, 1990.
• National Endowment For the Humanities Grant: Project Director,
  Summer Seminars for Secondary School Teachers, 1988.
• National Endowment For the Humanities Grant: Project Director,
  Summer Seminars for Secondary School Teachers, 1986.
• Supplementary Sabbatical, Trinity College, 1984.
• Hewlitt-Mellon Grant for Course Development, $1000, Summer 1983.
• Named Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy, September 1, 1982.
• Mellon Symposium Fellow, 1976.