Professor Dorothea Frede joined the Department of Philosophy in 2006 as the Mills Visiting Professor of Philosophy. Previously a member of the faculty of the University of Hamburg in Germany, she received her Ph.D. from Göttingen University in 1971. Professor Frede's professional interests include phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. As a specialist in ancient philosophy, her main focus in recent years has centralized on ethics and methodology in Plato's later works, as well as the ethics and politics of Aristotle's work. Professor Frede's recent publications include: Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption, Book 1; Language and Learning: Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age; and "Plato, Ethics—An Overview," which appeared in The Standard Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Professor Frede also recently completed a translation and commentary of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics for the Berlin Academy Series.