Brooke A. Holmes is a comparatist, a Hellenist, and a historian and theorist of concepts.  She teaches at Princeton University.  She is the author of The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece (2010), and Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy (2012) as well as numerous articles on ancient medicine, natural science, and philosophy, the history of materialism, Greek literature, especially tragedy, and the reception of Greek philosophy in the twentieth century. Her most recent projects are the co-edited volume Antiquities beyond Humanism and the multi-authored book-exhibition, Liquid Antiquity (2017), commissioned by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art and complemented by the video installation “Liquid Antiquity: Conversations,” designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and first installed in the antiquities galleries at the Benaki Museum in Athens before traveling to London in 2018. She is finishing up a book on sympathy and the concept of nature in the ancient Mediterranean entitled The Tissue of the World.