Education
PhD, MA, Boston University;  BA, Earlham College.

Biographical summary
Prof McCoy joined the tenure-track faculty in 2003-04 after teaching here for several years as an adjunct following a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in the Core Curriculum Program at Boston University.

Fields of Interest
- Plato, focusing on Plato's rhetoric; sophists.
- Feminist philosophy.
- Philosophy of love and friendship. 

Current Teaching
- Plato on the Rhetoric of Sophists and Philosophers (graduate seminar); Plato's Republic
- Love and Friendship in the Ancient World
- Rhetoric: Truth, Beauty, Power
- Introduction to Feminist Philosophies
- Perspectives on Western Civilization (core)

Other professional activities
- Undergraduate Committee (Philosophy)
- Women's Studies Advisory Board
- Volunteer, Norfolk Correctional Facility

Most recent publications
- Plato on the Rhetoric of Sophists and Philosophers (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- "Sophistry and Philosophy in Plato's Republic,"  Polis, volume 22(2), 2005.
- "Reason and Dialectic in the Argument against Protagoras in the Theaetetus," International Philosophical Quarterly, volume 45 (1) (March 2005), 21-39.
- "Philosophy, Elenchus, and Charmides's Definitions of Sophrosune," Arethusa 38 (2005), 133-159.