Malina Ćirić Buturović

 Malina Ćirić Buturović joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of Classics. Her work explores the interrelations between ancient Graeco-Roman scientific, philosophical, and cultural conceptions of the body. Her current project, The Transmission of Fault: Heredity Between Medicine and Theology, traces the entangled histories of Graeco-Roman medicine and philosophy forward and backward from the world of ‘Imperial Greek.’ Through readings of Plutarch, Galen, and their contemporaries on questions of heredity, ancestral fault, and intergenerational responsibility, she argues for the mutual shaping of humanistic and medical discourse in antiquity and for the continuing repercussions of this entanglement in modern thought. Outside of the monograph project, she has interests in Graeco-Roman physiognomy, the reception of Greek tragedy, and the intersections between ancient medicine and Platonist thought. Buturović received her PhD from the Princeton Department of Classics and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM) in spring 2023, where she was an IHUM fellow, Harold W. Dodds Fellow, and Prison Teaching Initiative Graduate Fellow. In 2023-2024 she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Classics at Yale.