Margaret Graver is the Aaron Lawrence Professor in Classics. Her area of specialization is Hellenistic and Roman philosophy, especially the philosophy of mind and emotion. After completing her doctorate at Brown University, she taught briefly at Princeton University, then joined the faculty at Dartmouth College in 1996, where she offers a variety of courses on Greek and Roman philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Latin literature including Lucretius, Cicero, and Seneca, and on the Latin language. In addition to her teaching at Dartmouth, Prof. Graver regularly lectures and gives seminars at institutions throughout the U.S. and Europe, including two short-term appointments at French universities.

Her book Seneca: The Literary Philosopher was recently published by Cambridge University Press, as was Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy,  which is a volume of essays co-edited with with Nathan Gilbert and Sean McConnell. Prof. Graver's other major publications include Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 (a translation with philosophical commentary); Stoicism and Emotion, which is a monograph treating all aspects of Stoic thought on the mind, affective response, and character development; and, in collaboration with A.A. Long, Seneca: Letters on Ethics, a complete annotated translation of that work, all from University of Chicago Press. A quicker introduction to Seneca's letters can be found in Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic, also from the University of Chicago Press. Numerous article-length pieces have appeared in scholarly journals and collections.