Gretchen Reydams-Schils is professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame,[1] and holds concurrent appointments in Classics, Philosophy, and Theology.
She teaches at the University of Notre Dame, where she also runs the Notre Dame Workshop on Ancient Philosophy,[5] She has been a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies and at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, and also held positions as visiting professor at the University of Bordeaux, France, in 2013; at Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry, France, in 2005; at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, in 2002; and at Spiritan Missionary Philosophy Seminary, Arusha, Tanzania, in Spring 1998 during a sabbatical.
[6] In her 2005 book The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection, she studied the philosophical basis that underpins the way Roman Stoics integrated philosophy into the social practice of living, friendship, political community, parenting and marriage.
[7] In a review, Margaret Graver describes it as looking "beyond the Stoics' ethical absolutism to emphasise, instead, their engagement with other human beings".
[12] In the article she argued that the change identified "a deep strand of repulsion at the female body in the Christian tradition".