Edith Gwendolyn Nally is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and affiliated faculty in the Classics Program and the Race, Ethnic, and Gender Studies Department at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. 

Her research focuses on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and is informed by feminist philosophy, the philosophy of love, sex, and gender, and the philosophy of reproduction. In addition, a number of her current research projects focus on the recovery and reinterpretation of ancient women philosophers, characters, and historical figures. She has broader interests in intellectual history, historiography, and disciplinary formation, examining how classical texts are interpreted and how methodological standards shape our modern understanding of the ancient world.

She is currently co-editing Ancient Women Philosophers of Greece and Rome (Routledge), the first comprehensive modern scholarly edition devoted to the writings, ideas, and biographies of ancient philosophical women. Alongside this project, she is at work on a monograph titled Before Virtue: Care in Plato's Symposium.

Nally has authored of a number of articles, most recently "A ‘Difficult’ Woman: Restoring Philosophical Xanthippe" (Hypatia, 2026) and "Weaponized Anachronism" (Helios, forthcoming). She also co-edited of Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), which applies feminist epistemic frameworks to classical literary, philosophical, and material sources.

Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Conversation, and Philosophical Salon (LA Review of Books).