Department of Philosophy
Affiliate Assistant Professor
College of Visual & Performing Arts
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3092
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I specialize in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, particularly the philosophy of literature (especially poetry). I have a secondary research interest in the philosophy of film. I keep an eye out for developments in philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology, and philosophy of language and linguistics (especially pragmatics, phonetics and phonology) insofar as these may inform my research in aesthetics.
At present I am editing the Continuum Companion to Aesthetics, a collection of commissioned essays on the main topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, to which I will contribute the entry on literature. I am also working on a few papers, listed to the left.
I was recently awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. This is enabling me to take a research leave during 2009-10 to work on a manuscript tentatively titled Poetry among the Arts. I have elected to do my work in Barcelona, where I am being kindly hosted by the Logos Research Group of the University of Barcelona.
I have presented my research at the meetings of the American
Philosophical Association, the American Society for Aesthetics and the
British Society of Aesthetics, at the Rutgers University Center for
Cognitive Science, and at the Universities of Nottingham, Oslo, and
Lisbon, among others.
Occasionally my critical faculties desert me; some of the results may be found here.
For more information, please click on the links to the left.
2009-2010 Courses
- On research fellowship leave.
2009-2010 Lectures
- 23-25 September 2009: "Objetos Literários" (Literary Objects). V Colóquio POL: Pensamento, Objeto e Linguagem (Fifth TOL Colloquium: Thought, Object and Language). Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil. http://www.filosofia.ufpr.br/POL/aboutus.html
- 14-16 October 2009: Fall retreat for Mellon/Woodrow Wilson Research Fellows. Princeton, NJ.
- 21-24 October 2009: American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado. http://www.aesthetics-online.org/events/index.php?events_id=193

