DR. JAMES HATLEY

Curriculum Vitae

 

Contact Information

 

Home Address: 712 Oak Hill Avenue; Salisbury, MD 21801  Telephone: 443-614-8030  Email: jjddhatley@aol.com

Departmental Address: Philosophy, Salisbury University, 1101 Camden Avenue, Salisbury, MD 21801 

Telephone: 410-677-5072 Email: jdhatley@salisbury.edu  Web Page: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~jdhatley

 

Education

 

Ph.D.  Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1989.

Dissertation: “Impossible Mourning: Transcendent Loss and the Memory of Disaster”.

Committee: Mary Rawlinson (Director), Edward Casey, Hugh Silverman, Peter Manchester.

        Fulbright Scholar: University of Tübingen (1988-89)

        Exchange Fellow: University of Tübingen (1986-87)

 

M.A.  English Literature, Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College), 1985.

        Overseas Study: Oxford University, Lincoln College (Summer, 1984 and 1985).

 

M.A.  Philosophy, University of Montana, 1981.

                Thesis: “Three Papers on the Limits of Representation”

Thesis Committee: Fred McGlynn (Director), Albert Borgmann, John Lawry, Hank Harrington

Overseas Study: Intensive French Program in Beaune France (Fall, 1980)

 

M.A.  Studio Art, University of Montana, 1976. 

Thesis Show: “Architectures of the Interior”

Thesis Show Committee: Rudio Autio, Ken Little, Bruce Barton

 

B.A.  Honors, English Literature with minor in Philosophy, Gonzaga University, 1971.

                (French Minor, University of Montana, 1981).

 

Areas of Specialization  20th Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics

Areas of Competence  Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion/Jewish Studies

Foreign Language Competence German, French, Hebrew

 

Teaching Experience at Salisbury University (1990-2009)

 

Introduction to Philosophy

Ethics

Aesthetics

Ancient Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy

Philosophical Concepts of Literature

    1991—Bachelard, Heidedegger and Blanchot         

     1993—Testimony and Historical Violence (Honors)

     1995—Blanchot, Kristeva, Derrida

     1997—Three Thinkers and their Literatures

     2000—Nussbaum: Reading as Phronesis

     2005—Scriptures: Torah, Talmud, Parable, Sutra

     2007—Between Bible and Book: Rereadings of Job

Contemporary Continental Philosophy

     2009—Being and Time: Heidegger and Levinas

    2005—Witnessing: Rereadings of Levinas

     2003—Why Ethics?: Responsibility, Forgiveness

     1998—Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty

     1996—Buber, Fackenheim and Levinas 

     1994—Derrida, Levinas and Irigaray

     1992—Heidegger and Levinas

 

American Philosophers of Nature: Emerson, Thoreau, Bugbee, Cavell

Junior Seminar in History of Philosophy

    2000, 2004, 2009—Friendship from Socrates to Arendt

Senior Seminar

    2009—Why Ethics?: Signs, Responsibilities and History

    2005—Bugbee, Marcel, Thoreau: Affirmation and Experience

    2000—Casey, Bass, Abram: A Phenomenology of Place   

    1996—Levinas: Alterity and Responsibility

    1992—Jaspers, Lifton, Lang: Principles of Responsibility

Environmental Responsibility: Intro to Environmental Philosophy.

Imagining the Earth: Cultural Approaches to Nature (Honors)

Finding Heart: Three Traditions of Spiritual Counsel (Honors)

 

Interdisciplinary Courses

     Philosophy of Art/Music History (Philosophy/Music)

     Environmental Perspectives: Forests (Phil/Ecol/Econ) (Honors)

     Nature Wars: Environmentalism in Sciences and Humanities

       (Phil/Hist)

     Sports in Film and Philosophy (Philosophy/English)

     Learning Community: Intercultural Justice (Phil/Engl/Hist)

 

 

At University of Montana (1990): Logic; Philosophy and the Holocaust; Political Ethics; Ethics

 

Publications

 

Books

 

Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, with Janice McLane and Christian Diehm (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006).

 

            Review:

David Morris.  In Symposium. Vol. 11, no.1 (Spring / Printemps, 2007)

 

Suffering Witness: The Quandary of Responsibility after the Irreparable (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000).

 

Book Session: Papers by Silvia Benso (Siena College) and Cynthia Coe (Monmouth College). 2001 Meeting of the Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy.  Goucher University. Baltimore, Md.

Reviews:

Peter Haas. In Oxford Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Winter, 2002).

Cynthia Coe. In The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Vol. 17, no. 1 (2003).

Martin Kavka. In Religious Studies Review. Vol. 29, no. 2 (April, 2003).

 

Extensively Cited in:

Deborah Bird Rose.  Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonization (University of New South Wales Press, 2004).

Deborah Bird Rose. “What if the Angel of History were a Dog?”  In Cultural Studies Review: Environments and Ecologies Vol. 12, no. 1 (March 2006): 67-78.

David Denborough: “Trauma, meaning, witnessing and action: An Interview with Kaethe Weingarten.” In International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 2005, nos. 3 & 4.

Asale Angel-Ajani. “Expert Witness: Notes toward Revisiting the Politics of Listening. In Anthropology and Humanism, Vol. 29, no. 2: 133-144.

William K. Cody. “The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Healthcare: A Beginning Exploration.”  In Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 14, no. 4 (2001): 288-296.

Rahel Naef.  “Bearing Witness: A Moral Way of Engaging in the Nurse-Person Relationship.”  In Nursing Philosophy. Volume 7, no. 3 (2006): 146-.

 

Guest Editor

 

The Journal of Environmental Philosophy.  Issue Theme: “Species of Thought—In the Approach of a more-than-human World.”  (Fall, 2008).

 

Articles

 

20)  “Blood Intimacies: Learning one’s Humanity from Ticks.”  In Unloved Others, eds. Thomas vanDooren and Deborah Bird Rose (forthcoming).

 

19) “Witnessing Trees.” In Kunst, Bild, Wahrnehmen, Blick [Art, Image, Perception, Gaze], Bernd Waldenfels, Antje Kapust, eds., Antje Kapust, trans. (Fink Verlag: München, 2009).

 

18) “Sensing Environmentalism Anew: Gestate Witness of a more-than-human World in Merleau-Ponty.” In Environmental Philosophy Vol. 4, nos. 1-2 (Spring and Fall, 2007):

 

17) "Persecution and Expiation: A Talmudic Amplification of the Enigma of Responsibility in Levinas.” In Philosophy Today (Special Edition: “Jewish Philosophy Today,” Claire Katz, ed.), Vol. 50, no. 1 (Spring, 2006): 80-91.

 

16) “Techne and Phusis: Wilderness and the Aesthetics of the Trace in Andrew Goldsworthy.”  In Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 6-17.

 

15) “Generations: Levinas in the Jewish Context.”  In Levinas and Rhetoric. Vol. 38, no. 2 (2005): 173-189.

 

14) "Beyond Outrage: The Delirium of Responsibility in Levinas's Scene of Persecution," in Addressing Levinas, Eric Nelson, Antje Kapust and Kent Still, eds. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005): 34-51.

 

13) "The Uncanny Goodness of being Edible to Bears," in Nature Reconsidered: New Essays in Environmental Philosophy, Bruce Folz and Robert Froedeman, eds. (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004).

 

12) “Interdisciplinary Teaching: Analyzing Consensus and Conflict in Environmental Studies,” Dr. Jill Caviglia-Harris, co-author.  In The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 5, no 4, 2004: pp. 395-403.

 

11) "Nameless Memory: Levinas, Witness and Politics."  In Religion and Public Life: Justice and the Politics of Memory. Gabriel Ricci, editor.  (New Jersey: Transaction Press, 2003).  Reprint: Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Volume IV: Beyond Levinas, Claire Katz, editor (New York: Routledge, 2005).

 

10) "Taking Phenomenology for a Walk: The Artworks of Hamish Fulton," in Lived Images: Mediations in Experience, Life-World and I-hood, Matti Itkonen and Gary Backhaus, eds. (Finland: University of Jyvaskyla Press, 2003). 

 

9) "The Malignancy of Evil: Witnessing Violence beyond Justice."  In Studies in Practical Philosophy: Witnessing. Kelly Oliver and Shannon Hoff, eds. Volume 3, Issue 2 (New York: Lexington Press, Fall 2003): 84-106.

 

8) "Where the Beavers Gnaw: Predatory Space in the Urban Landscape," in Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes, Gary Backhaus and John Murungi, eds. (New York: Lexington Books, 2002).

 

7) "Lyotard, Levinas and the Phrasing of the Ethical," in Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics and the Sublime, Continental Philosophy VIII, Hugh J. Silverman, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2002)

 

6) "Recursive Incarnation and Chiasmic Flesh: Two Readings of Paul Celan's Chymisch," in Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of Flesh, Fred Evans and Leonard Lawler, eds. (SUNY Press, 2000)

 

5) "Creation and Responsibility in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: Ecological Ethics Beyond the Language of Value," in Art Culture Nature: The Artist in a Cultural and Environmental Context, Andrew Hepburn, ed. (1995 Conference Proceedings) Andrew Hepburn, ed. (Salisbury: Salisbury State University, 1995).

 

4) "The Sincerity of Apology: Levinas's Resistance to the Judgment of History," in Interpretation and Community, Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen H. Watson, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995).

 

3) "Celan's Poetics of Address: How the Dead Resist their History," in Signs of Change: Premodern-Modern-Postmodern, Stephen Barker, ed. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995).

 

2) "Grund and Abgrund: Questioning Poetic Foundations in Heidegger and Celan," in Questioning Foundations, Continental Philosophy V, Hugh J. Silverman, ed. (New York: Routledge, 1992).

 

1) "Impossible Mourning: Two Attempts to Remember Annihilation." In The Centennial Review: Discourses of Mourning, Survival and Commemoration. Vol. XXXV, no. 3 (November, 1991): 445-459.  Reprint: in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 42, under heading "Aharon Appelfeld" (Minnesota: Gale Group Publishers, 2001).

 

 

Reviews

 

David Michael Kleinberg-Levin’s Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty’s Ecology and Levinas’s Ethics, in Ethics, Place and Responsibility: A Journal of Philosophy and Geography.  Forthcoming.

 

Deborah Bird Rose’s Reports from a Wild Country: the decolonization of ethics, in Environmental Philosophy Vol. 4, nos. 1-2 (Spring and Fall, 2007):

 

Oona Eisenstadt’s Driven Back to the Text: the Premodern Sources of Levinas’s Postmodernism, in Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (Vol. XIV, no. 2, Fall 2004).

 

David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous: Language and Perception in a More than Human World, in Environmental Ethics (Spring, 1997).

 

Lawrence Johnson's A Morally Deep World, in Environmental Ethics (Summer, 1996).

 

Hugh Silverman's Textualities, in Philosophy and Literature (Spring, 1996).

 

John Llewelyn's The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience, in Environmental Ethics (Spring, 1995).

 

Translations

 

Merleau-Ponty: "Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy." In Merleau-Ponty: Texts and Dialogues (Humanities Press, 1991).

 

Baudelaire: Les Phares. In Webster Review (Fall/1985).

 

In Progress

Walking Mountains Thinking: Humane and Inhumane Compassions in the Order of Phusis.   A phenomenological study of wilderness as a mode of religious, aesthetic and ethical orientation. 

The Faces of Nature: Levinasian Ethics and the Environment.  Co-editing with William Edelglas and Christian Diehm.

       “The Bread from One’s Mouth and the Bread from the Other’s Mountain: Entangled Histories and Incessant Corrections.”

 “Across the Generations: The Poetics of Paul Celan and Emmanuel Levinas.” 

“Necessary Blasphemy:  A Midrashic Reading of Celan and Levinas.”

“Of Affliction:  John Lawry’s Reading of the Book of Job”

“The Ambit of Creation: Thoreau and Bugbee on Solitude.”

“Naming Adam, Naming Creation: A Midrashic Approach to Environmental Philosophy.” 

Manuscript Consultant

 

            Epoche, 2009

            University of Virgiania Press, 2009 (anonymous).

            Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2008 (anonymous)

International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place Book Series, 2008 (anonymous).

            Journal of Society and Animals, 2008 (anonymous)

Ohio University Press, 2007 ()

Duquesne University Press, 2007 (Fleischacker, Heidegger's Jewish Followers: Essays on Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas)

Journal of Environmental Philosophy, 2006 (anonymous)

Mosaics, 2006 (anonymous)

Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2006 (anonymous)

Cross Roads, 2005 (anonymous)

Hypatia, 2003 (anonymous)

Indiana University Press, 2001 (Macauley, Walking the Earth: Philosophical Footnotes)

SUNY Press, 2001 (Mensch, Ethics and Selfhood)

SUNY Press, 2001 (Eisenstein, Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject)

Duquesne University Press, 2000 (Gantt and Williams, Psychology for the Other)

Northwestern University Press, 1998 (Ziarek and Deane, Future Crossings: Literature between Philosophy and Cultural Studies).

SUNY Press, 1996 (Kunz, The Paradox of Power and Weakness)

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995 (Srajek, In the Margins of Deconstruction)

 

 

Conference Director

 

Organizer and Director of “Philosophers in Montana: Affirming Wilderness?” June 18, 2005.  University of Montana.  A public symposium.  Funded by the University of Montana College of Arts and Sciences and the Montana Committee for the Humanities. 

 

Organizer and Director of “What Calls for Thought: The Philosophy of Henry Bugbee.” June 16 and 17, 2005.  University of Montana.  A scholarly conference.

 

Director of first meeting of the Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context, held at Loyola University of Chicago in conjunction with SPEP, October 12, 2002.

 

Co-director of the third meeting of the Levinas Research Seminar, held at the Harvard University Center for European Studies, May 5-7, 2002.

 

Director of the twenty-second annual conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle on "Ethical Bodies," held at Salisbury University, September 17-19, 1998.

 

 

Founding Member

 

Founding member of the Levinas Research Seminar. Organizational meeting held at The Pennsylvania State University, April 28-29, 2000.

 

Founding member of the North American Society for Levinas Studies

 

Founding member of the Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context.

 

 
Society Officer

 

Executive Board Member, North American Association for Levinas Studies (2007-2010)

 

Treasurer, International Association for Environmental Philosophy (2005-  )

 

Executive Board Member, Society for Nature, Philosophy and Religion (2005-  )

 

Secretary/Treasurer, Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context (2001-07)

 

 

Conferences, Papers and Presentations

 

            Paper, “Buber on Naming Creation.”  Society for Nature in Philosophy and Religion.  November 1, 2009.  George Mason University.

           

Response Paper, “Skeptically Yours: When will this Howling Stop?”  Response Paper to Diane Perpich’s Levinas’s Ethics.  Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy.  October 29, 2009.  George Mason University.

           

Presentation,  “Greek Philosophy in a Hebrew Tongue.”  For “We Will Do and We Will Hear: Emmanuel Levinas and Talmud”: A Public Symposium. Penn State University. Departments of Philosophy and Jewish Studies October 25, 2009.

 

Paper, “Witnessing Creation: Temporal Discernment in a Time of Decreation.”  Department of Philosophy Colloquium.  LaTrobe University. Melbourne, AU. July 17, 2009.

           

.           Presentation, “Witnessing Extinction.” Eco-Humanities Roundtable on “Writing at the End of the World.” Maquarie University, Sydney, AU.  July 11, 2009.

 

Paper, “Earth without End: False Eternities and the Mortal Future of the Human Species.”  Keynote Address for “Writing at the End of the World.”  Roundtable in the Eco-Humanites sponsored by The Center for Research for Social Inclusion, Macqaurie University.  Sydney, AU. July 10, 2009.

 

Paper, “Discursus without Silence: Skeptical Poetics and Noisy Legacies in Celan’s “Praise of Distance” and Levinas’s Otherwise than Being.  Annual Raissa and Emannuel Levinas Address, North American Levinas Society.  University of Toronto.  June 28, 2009.

 

Respondent, Avivah Zornberg’s Talk on Murmuring Depths and the Biblical Unconsciousness.  Pamona College.  April 27, 2009.

 

Paper, “In the Flesh: An Apology for Witnessing Trees in Environmental Art.”  Keynote Address of the Geo-Aesthetics Conference sponsored by the International Association for the Study of the Environment, Space and Place.  Towson University.  March 6, 2009.

 

Moderator: “The Philosophical Legacy of Val Plumwood.”  Session of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy at the Eastern Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association.  December, 2008

 

Lecture, “Naming Adam, Naming Creation: A Midrashic Approach to Environmental Philosophy.”  Berman Lecture Series of the Eckerd College Spirituality Center.  Eckerd College.  November 24, 2008.

 

Paper, “The Rose of Creation: Reading Paul Celan’s Psalm.”  Society for Nature and Philosophy in Religion.  Duquesne University.  October, 2008.

 

Paper, “The Plainness of Ishmael, the Hyperbole of Akiva: Heschel and Levinas Rereading the Rabbis.”  Annual Conference of the North American Levinas Society.  Seattle University.  September, 2008.

 

Paper, “The G-d of Abraham, the G-d of the Rabbis and the G-d of John Lawry: Reading Psalm 19 Hebraically.”  Symposium on the Thought of John Lawry. University of Montana, June 11, 2008.

 

Paper, “Over the Thorn: Rereading Celan Rereading the Shoah,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.  Toronto.  December, 2007.

 

Presentation, “Ethics and the University: Roundtable Discussion.” State University of New York at Binghamton.  November 16, 2007.

 

Paper, “The Original Goodness of Nature: Tikkun Olam as the Affirmation of Creation,” Annual Program of the Society for Nature, Philosophy and Religion.  Chicago.  November, 2007.

 

Presentation, “Building Walden in my Basement, or Living in the Ambit of one’s Horizon,” Annual Meeting of Thoreau Society. Concord, MA.  July, 2007.

 

Paper, “Community beyond Colonization in the Australian Context.”  Annual Meeting of the North American Levinas Society.  Purdue University.  June, 2007.

 

Presentation, “Building with Trees and Stones:  Horizonal Structures in the Practice of Environmental Art.”  International Association for the Environment, Space and Place.  Silverman Phenomenological Center, Duquesne University.  April, 2007. 

 

Paper, “The Bread in One’s Mouth and the Bread on the Other’s Mountain.”  Annual Meeting of the Levinas Research Seminar.  Hamilton, Ontario.  March, 2007.

 

Paper, “Wild Contacts: Merleau-Ponty and Thoreau on Witnessing Nature.” Annual Meeting of the Thoreau Society. Walden Pond, MA.  July, 2006.

 

Paper, “The Devastation of Maternity: A Midrashic Reading of Levinas through the Book of Job.” Inaugural Meeting of the North American Levinas Society.  Purdue University.  May, 2006.

 

Lecture, “Does the Holocaust have a Future?.”  Invited lecture for Jewish Studies Department. Penn State University.  April, 2006.

 

Paper, “Behemoth and Behema: Some Thoughts on the Chimera from the Other Side of the Western Canon.”  Response to Brett Buchanan’s “Chasing Chimeras: Aesthetic Constructions of the Animal.”  Eastern Annual Conference of the American Philosophical Association.  New York, N.Y. December, 2005.

 

Paper, “Witnessing Gestate Beings: On Bugbee’s Reading of the Book of Job.”  International Association for Environmental Philosophy.  Salt Lake City, UT.  October, 2005.

 

Respondent, “Tracing out Responsibility in Henry Bugbee.”  Response to Michael Palmer’s paper, “A Burden Tender and in no wise Heavy.”  For “What Welcomes Thought: The Philosophical Legacy of Henry Bugbee.”  University of Montana, Missoula, MT, June 2005.

 

Paper, “Tarn Ream and Trillium ovatum: A Case Study in Gestate Witness.”  First Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place.  Towson University, 2005.

 

Paper, “Environmental Witness via the Thought of Merleau-Ponty.”  Joint Meeting of The International Association for Environmental Philosophy and The International Society of Environmental Ethics.  Fort Collins, Colorado, 2004.

 

Paper, “The Bones of Joseph Mengele: Witnessing the Indifference of Nature.”  Invited Paper for the Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, 2004. 

 

Paper, "Witnessing the Equivocation of Responsibility: Responding beyond Outrage in Otherwise than Being."  Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy.  Boston University, 2003.

 

Presentation, “Techne and Phusis in the Artworks of Andrew Goldsworthy.”  International Association for Environmental Philosophy.  Boston University, 2003.

 

Lecture, "Nameless: Witnessing the Holocaust's Future"  Invited Lecture for Yom Hashoa Commemoration.  St. Francis College, April 27, 2003.

 

Moderator, "Deliberating the Natural."  International Association for Environmental Philosophy. University of Loyola at Chicago, 2002.

 

Presentation, "Earthscaping and Bodyscaping the Land Art of Andrew Goldsworthy and Hamish Fulton."  Society for Philosophy and Geography.  Towson University, 2002.

 

Paper, "Obedience Beyond Wonder: Cain's Insincerity and the Discourse of Repentance."  Panel: "Judgment, Law and Guilt in Levinas and his Forebears."  Association for Jewish Studies.  Washington, D.C., 2001.

 

Invited Respondent, Book Session on Suffering Witness: The Quandary of Responsibility after the Irreparable.  Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy. Goucher College, 2001.

 

Presentation, "Elemental Walking."  International Association for Environmental Philosophy.  Goucher College, 2001.

 

Presentation, "Drinking Sun Melted Snow by Moonlight."  Art Culture Nature.  Northern Arizona University, 2001.

 

Paper, "The Malignancy of Evil: Witnessing Violence without Justice."  Levinas Research Seminar. Duquesne University, 2001.

 

Panel Organizer and Chair, "Bereshiyt/Genesis: Writing and Reading the Beginning of Beginning."  International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Spelman College, 2001.

 

Paper, "The Malignancy of Evil: Witnessing Violence without Justice." Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust. New York (APA), 2000.

 

Moderator, "Continental Approaches to Environmental Philosophy." International Association for Environmental Philosophy.  Pennsylvania State University, 2000.

 

Paper, "Fleshly Motility: Backpacking as a Mode of Crossing into the Wilds." Society for Philosophy and Geography. Towson University, 2000.

 

Invited Paper, "Fleshly Motility: Walking into the Wilds." Conference: "Merleau-Ponty and the Body."  Goucher College, 1999.

 

Invited Paper, "Beyond Outrage." International Conference: "Addressing Levinas: Ethics, Phenomenology and The Judaic Tradition." Emory University, 1999.

 

Paper, "Predatory Space: The Uncanny Goodness of being Edible to Bears." International Association of Environmental Philosophy. University of Oregon, 1999.

 

Paper, "Rick Bass's The Lost Grizzlies: Wilderness and its Carcasses." Art Culture Nature. University of Washington, 1999.

 

Paper, "Where the Beavers Gnaw: Predatory Space in the Urban Landscape." Society for Philosophy and Geography. Towson University, 1999.

 

Presentation, "Cultural Relativity and Relative Beauties." Cookie Colloquium. Salisbury University, 1998.

 

Paper, "Asymmetrical Alterity and Invasive Alterity: The Uncanny as a Key to Proto-Ethical Significance." Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy. University of Kentucky, 1997.

 

Presentation, "The Crisis in Environmental Responsibility: How Radical is Radical Enough." Cookie Colloquium. Salisbury University, 1997.

 

Paper, "Bad Conscience and the Totalitarian State."  International Conference "Ethics after the Holocaust." University of Oregon, 1996.

 

Paper, "Silko's Ceremony: Rereading Europeans in Pueblo."  International Association for Philosophy and Literature. George Mason University, 1996. Also: American Women Writers of Color Conference. Salisbury University, 1996.

 

Paper, "Prophetic Subjectivity: Inwardness without Secrets." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Loyola at Chicago, 1995.

 

Moderator, "Louise Erdrich." American Women Writers of Color Conference.  Salisbury University, 1995.

 

Paper, "Recursive Incarnation and Chiasmic Flesh: Two Readings of Paul Celan's Chymisch."  Merleau-Ponty Circle. Duquesne University, 1995.

 

Paper, "Ecological Responsibility in Silko's novel Ceremony." University of Montana, 1995.

 

Paper, "Surreptitious Subjectivity and Prophetic Sincerity: A Consideration of Kristeva's Notion of the Uncanny."  Fifth Annual International Philosophic Seminar. Italy, 1995.

 

Moderator, "Virtual Bodies, Textual Bodies, Fleshy Bodies." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Villanova University, 1995.

 

Paper, "Creation and Responsibility: Ecological Ethics beyond the Language of Value. Art Culture Nature. Salisbury University, May 1995.

 

Presentation, "Staging the 'Noble Savage': European Images of the Non-European": Cookie Colloquium. Salisbury University, 1995.

 

Paper, "Resisting Totalitarianism: Levinas's Fearful Conscience."  Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.  Seattle University, 1994.

 

Presentation, "Using Film to Teach Philosophy." Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Salisbury University, 1994.

 

Paper, "Prophetic History as Figurative Discourse: A Response to Lang's Notion of Historical Discourse." International Association for Literature and Philosophy. University of Edmonton, 1994.

 

Attended, "Ethics as First Philosophy? The Significance of Emmanuel Levinas for Philosophy, Literature and Religion." International Conference.  University of Loyola at Chicago, 1993.

 

Commentator, "Visibility, Witness and Representation," International Association for Literature and Philosophy. Pittsburgh, 1993.

 

Paper, "The Restlessness of Ethical Sincerity: A Levinasian Response to Lyotard's Phrasing of the Ethical." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Boston, 1992.

 

Paper, "Generosity and Shame: The Struggle to Die-for-Another." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. University of California at Berkeley, 1992.

 

Attended, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston, 1991.

 

Paper, "The Sincerity of Apology: Levinas's Resistance to the Judgment of History." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. University of Memphis, 1991.

 

Paper, "Celan's Poetics of Address: How the Dead Resist their History."  International Association for Philosophy and Literature. University of Montréal, 1991.

 

Response, "Palpable Memory and the Annihilation of Bodies."  International Association for Philosophy and Literature.  University of California at Irvine, 1990.

 

Paper, "Impossible Mourning: Levi, Levinas and Casey." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Emory University, 1989.

 

Paper, "Questioning History: Celan's Confrontation with Heidegger's Poetics." University of Montana, 1988.

 

Respondent, "The Image of Politics." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Notre Dame, 1988.

 

Discussant, "Theory and the Visual Arts." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Notre Dame, 1987.

 

Paper, "Gazing into Language: the Function of Remembrance in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale."  Stony Brook Graduate Student Colloquium, 1986.

 

 

Public Lectures/Public Service/Public Seminars

 

Book Discussion Leader, Har Shalom Synagogue, The Puttermesser Papers (Missoula, MT; August 9, 2007).

 

Book Discussion Leader, Worcester County Library at Ocean Pines. “Demons, Golems and Angels in Jewish Literature”: The Dybbuk, Satan Comes to Goray, The Puttermesser Papers” (Ocean Pines, MD; Fall, 2006).

Co-Discussant, 25th Annual Salisbury University Philosophy Symposium.  “Extremity and Moderation as Modes of Thought.” (Salsibury, MD; Spring, 2005)

Adult Education Speaker for Beth Israel Synagogue: “Environmental Responsibility and the Baal Shem Tov” (Salisbury, MD; October, 2004)

Eastern Shore Correctional Institution Book Discussion Group Leader: “Virtues and Vices” (January, 2004); “Case Studies in Ethics” (June, 2003)

Annual St. Francies College Holocaust Memorial Address: "Nameless: Does the Shoah Have a Future?" (Brooklyn, NY; April 26, 2003)

Beth Israel Synagogue: Director, Community Holocaust Memorial Service (Salisbury, MD; May 2002, 2003)

Adkins Arboretum Speaker’s Series: "Land Art: The Works of Andrew Goldsworthy and Hamish Fulton" (Easton, MD; October, 2002).

Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery Speaker's Series: "Land Art: The Works of Andrew Goldsworthy and Hamish Fulton" (Salisbury, MD; March, 2002).

Denton Public Library Book Discussion Series: Undaunted Courage (October, 2001).

 

Art Exhibitions and Installations

 

            “Reliquary for an American Chestnut Tree” selected for Adkins Arboretum 2009 Annual National Art Competition.

 

            “Solar Orientations”:  Site-specific sculptural installation on the Fulton Hall Green.  March/April, 2009.

 

“Something/Nothing I” selected for juried 2008 Annual National Exhibition of the Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery.  47 works from 24 states selected from over 480 entries.

 

“Mu!”, “Balancing Act”, and “Something/Nothing II.” Annual Salisbury University Art Faculty Show (Fall, 2008).  Fulton Hall Gallery.

 

“Vessel for Sticks,” “Might Chestnut Shard,” and “Something/Nothing I.”  Recent Work of Salisbury University Art Faculty (Fall, 2008). Frostberg University Art Gallery.

 

“Something/Nothing II” awarded honorable mention for 2008 Regional Exhibition of Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery.

“Howler” selected for Adkins Arboretum 2008 Annual National Art Competition. 

 

 “Holding Air” selected for juried 2007 Annual National Exhibition of the Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery.  37 pieces from 30 states selected from over 150 entries.

 

“Clubfoot” selected for Adkins Arboretum 2007 Annual National Art Competition. 35 pieces selected from 112 entries.

 

“Tripod” awarded honorable mention for 2007 Regional Exhibition of Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery.

 

“Cascading Limbs” and “Howler” selected for 2007 Members Regional Exhibition of the Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery.

 

“Ideograms: Tree Stone Air.”  One Person Show.  Sculpture.  Garden Room of the Bellavance Honors House.  September 1-October 5, 2006.

 

“Blackfoot 1” and “Blackfoot 2” included in the 2006 Regional Show of the AI&G.  Salisbury, MD.

 

“Earthly Vessels, Earthly Lights.”  One Person Show. Photography, Ceramics and Land Art. Atrium Gallery.  April 22-May 20, 2005

 

"Waking to Light: New Visions." Two Person Show. Photography and Wilderness Writings. Atrium Gallery.  August, 1999.

 

"Waking to Light: Finding our Way back to the Earth." Two Person Show. Photography and Wilderness Writings Bellavance Honors House Garden Room, April, 1999.

 

“Architectures and Interiorities.” Masters Show, University of Montana, University of Montana Fine Arts Gallery, April, 1976.

 

Grants, Awards and Scholarships

 

Honorable Mention for “Tripod Shin”: Wood and Stone Sculpture included in Salisbury Art

               Institute and Gallery’s 2007 Regional Show.

Highly Commended Paper: “Interdisciplinary Teaching: Analyzing Consensus and Conflict in

            Environmental Studies.”

Montana Committee for the Humanities Program Grant: Philosophers in Montana Public

            Symposium/June, 2005

First Prize, “Stunted Rainbow”: Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery Photography Show, 2003.

Distinguished Program Award for the Eastern Correctional Institution Student-Inmate Group Discussions Project, Maryland Association of Higher Education, 2003.

Fulton School Paired Teaching Grant, 2001

Distinguished Faculty Award, Salisbury University, 1999.

Scholarship to attend the Calumet Photography Institute, 1999, 2000.

Fulton Foundation Writing Stipend, Summer 2000, 1995, 1992.

Salisbury State Foundation Research Stipends, Summer 1994, 1993, 1991.

NEH Grant to attend international conference on Emmanuel Levinas, May 1993.

Fulbright-Hays Scholarship for Study in Germany, 1988-89.

Tübingen Exchange Fellowship, University of Tübingen, Germany, 1986-87.

Wylie Sypher Memorial Scholarship, Bread Loaf School of English, Summer 1983.

Rural Teacher's Writing Scholarship, Bread Loaf School of English, Summer 1982.

Bertha Morton Graduate Scholarship, University of Montana, Fall 1980.

University Art Award, University of Montana, Spring 1976.

 

Service

 

Committees

 

University Promotions Committee (2004-Now)

University Forum Committee for the Honors Program (91-95; 98-2000)

Ad-hoc Committee for the Establishment of the Fulton Faculty Colloquium (99-00)

Cultural Affairs Committee (99-2004)

Speaker's Series Committee for the Question of Spirituality on Campus (99-00)

Steering Committee for Environmental Studies Program (98-Now)

Speaker's Series Committee on Environmental Issues (98-99)

Ad-hoc Committee on the Question of Spirituality (98-00)

Committee for Ethnic Studies Minor (98-99)

Department Committee for the Philosophical Symposium (90-Now)

Speaker's Series Committee for the Myth of the West (94-96)

Fulton Ad-Hoc Committee for a Women Studies Program (93-96)

Fulton School Committee for Stipends and Grants (91-93, 2003-Now)

Ad-Hoc Committee for Development of a Minor in Environmental Studies (92-98)

Speaker's Series Committee for the Columbus Celebration (91-92)

Acts of Intolerance Resource Team (Spring, 1992)

 

Committee Chair

 

Promotions Committee (08-10)

University Forum Committee for the Honors Program (92-94)

 

 

Interim Departmental Chair

 

Philosophy Department (Spring, 2000)

 

Advisor

 

Eastern Correctional Institution Group Discussions Project (2001-Now)

Environmental Studies Association (99-Now)

Jewish Student Association (91-92, 94-96, 2004-)

Outdoor Club (96-2002)

Student Philosophical Society (93-96); Co-Advisor, (96-now)

Phi Sigma Tau (96-Now)

 

Community Education

 

Scholar and Discussion Leader for Delmarva Library Discussion Series (93-Now)

Discussion Leader for "Choices '98" (98)

Teacher for Elderhostel (93-00)

 

Professional Organizations

 

American Philosophical Association

Association of Jewish Studies

International Association for Environmental Philosophy

Levinas Research Seminar

Merleau-Ponty Circle

North American Levinas Society

Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context

Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy

Society for the Study of the Environment, Place and Space.

Thoreau Society

 

References

 

Dr. Oona Eisenstadt, Fred Krinsky Professor of Jewish Studies/Department of Religious Studies, Pomona College

 

Dr. Bruce Foltz, Department of Philosophy, Eckerd College

 

Dr. Claire Katz, Department of Philosophy/Women’s Studies, Texas A&M University

 

Dr. Grace Clement, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Salisbury University

 

Dr. Michael Lewis, Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program, Salisbury University