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B.A. Northern Illinois University, June 1972, Philosophy
M.A Northern Illinois University, June 1975, Philosophy
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, June 1981, Philosophy
Dissertation: Nihilism and Resoluteness: The Tragic Context

Advisor : Lee B. Brown

"The Survival of Tragedy: Dostoevsky's The Idiot", in Dialogue: Journal of the National Honor Society for Philosophy, October 1975.

"Absurdity and Suicide: A Reexamination" in Philosophy Research Archives, March, 1986.

"A Kuhnian Metatheory for Aesthetics" in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall, 1986.

"Nietzsche as Sophist: A Polemic" in International Philosophical Quarterly, December, 1986.

"Rorty and Nietzsche: Some Elective Affinities" in International Studies in Philosophy, November, 1989.

"The American Democratic Ideology" in The Lock Haven International Review, Fall, 1990.

"Lang Contra Vengeance: The Big Heat" in the Journal of Value Inquiry, December 1995.

                "Determinism and Dead Ringers" in Film and Philosophy, Vol. III, Winter, 1996.

"Individual Commitment in To Have and Have Not, Film and History, Spring 1997

Book Note on John Gedo’s The Psychoanalysis of Creativity in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Winter 2001

"Power, Horror and Ambivalence" in Film and Philosophy Special Edition on Horror 2001

"It's All Ideology, Isn't It" in Film and Knowledge, edited by Kevin Stoehr (2002: MacFarland Press)

Isabel Archer: Tragic Heroine of Pitiable Victim" in Literature/Film Quarterly   Winter 2003

Review of Gothic: Transformations of the Grotesque in 20^th Century Art by Christoph Grunenberg, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror co-edited with Steven Jay Schneider, Scarecrow Press, 2003

"On Being Philosophical and Being John Malkovich" in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Winter 2006

 Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously, a monograph in the Short Cuts Series on Cinema, Wallflower Press, December 2008

 

"Rorty and Nietzsche: Some Elective Affinities" to the North American Nietzsche Society at the APA Convention in December, 1986.

"Nietzsche's Sophistic Aesthetics" to the International Conference of Young Philosophers in Warsaw, Poland, August, 1987.

"Nietzsche and Nationalism" at the Second Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, September, 1990.

"Thelma and Louise: Liberating or Regressive?" to a conference on Film Individualism and Community, Baltimore, Maryland, April 1991.

"Truffaut's Archetypal Femme Fatale: Catherine in Jules and Jim" at the Popular Culture Association Convention in New Orleans, April, 1993.

"Lang Contra Vengeance: The Big Heat" to the Society for the Philosophic Study of Contemporary Visual Arts at the APA Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1993.

"Determinism in Dead Ringers" to the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA), New York, December 1995.

"The Role of the Other in the Films of Jane Campion" to the SPSCVA, Berkeley, California, March 1997.

"Mad Love: Our Love Affair with Horror" to the American Society for Aesthetics, Asilomar California, April 1998

        "Nietzsche’s Sophistic Aesthetics" to the Southampton, England conference on Nietzsche and Post-Analytic  
         Philosophy,  September 1999 

        "It’s All Ideology, Isn’t It" to the SPSCVA,  APA Central Division meetings, April 2000.

        "A Six Step Approach to Argument Analysis" to the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning,
         Jacksonville FL, April, 2002

        "Real Horror: A Response to Solomon" at the American Society for Aesthetics meetings in Miami November 2003

        "Kubrick Contra Nihilism: A Clockwork Orange" to the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Chicago  April 2004  

         "Nihilism and Tragedy in Moby Dick" at the Tragic Visions conference at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, November 24, 2006

         A Rejoinder to Noel Carroll's The Philosophy of Motion Pictures, delivered to the American Society for Aesthetics Spring meeting in Philadephia, April 2008

ACADEMIC AWARDS

• Named managing editor of Film and Philosophy, the Journal of the SPSCVA ,June 2000.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Nietzsche and Postmodernism with Bernd Magnus at the University of California, Riverside, Summer of 1985.
• Deutsches Academisches Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholarship Program for American Faculty to Study German in Germany, Summer 1986.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Psychoanalysis and History with Peter Gay at Yale University, Summer 1994.
• Who's Who in American Teaching, 1996, 2009.
• Student's Choice Award for Outstanding Teacher, Lock Haven University Student Cooperative Council, 2004-05
• Outstanding Scholar Award, Lock Haven University, 2007-08

• Aesthetics (especially Philosophy of Literature and Film Theory)
• 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Existentialism and German Philosophy)

• Ethics
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Ancient Philosophy
• Philosophy of Science

                                      BEING JOHN MALKOVICH