works in the arts and the humanities. His writing for performance has been presented at numerous venues, including LA Phil’s Disney Hall, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Prototype Festival, the Kaatsbaan Festival, and the First Take Opera Workshop. Stranger Love, a six-hour opera commissioned by the LA Phil, was praised for its “sheer audacity” by The New York Times and listed by both the NYT and the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the "best classical music performances of 2023." Other works for performance include Long After Hesiod, written to be performed with Stacy Garrop’s String Quartet No. 3 (Gaia), and narration for Dylan Mattingly’s composition The Bakkhai, which he performed with Contemporaneous. He has also performed as an actor in theater and independent films. The new critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind that Thomas recently coedited was hailed as a “a revelation” by the Chronicle of Higher Education. His other publications include the coedited volumes When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press); Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern (University of Chicago Press), “a wide-ranging and arresting volume on the erotic”(BMCR); and the “important and ambitiously Borgesian project” (Anthrovision) Switching Codes: Thinking Through Technology in the Humanities and the Arts (University of Chicago Press) as well as essays and articles on a wide range of topics. Thomas holds a PhD and MA from the University of Chicago and a BA (summa cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of Heidelberg, and the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He was director of the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College in New York from 2010-2015 and is a Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. Since 2017 he has been the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard.