John Sellars completed his PhD at the University of Warwick, not long after which he came to King’s as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow working on the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project (2003-7). Away from King’s for 5 years, in 2012 he returned to take up a part-time role overseeing the Ancient Commentators project, which he has combined with a Lectureship in Philosophy at Birkbeck (2012-14), editorial work for the project at King’s (2014-17), and a Lectureship in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London (2017-).

Research interests

• Hellenistic Philosophy
• Roman Philosophy
• Renaissance Philosophy
• The Reception of Stoicism in the History of Philosophy
• Metaphilosophy, esp. Philosophy as a Way of Life 

Expertise and public engagement

• In discussion with Peter Adamson on Roman Stoicism for History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast
• Talk on Stoicism and its influence at the Bodleian Library
• Discussion with Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro about Stoicism and psychotherapy