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Graduates of the Program

Todd Hoffman
Dissertation:  Postmodern Aesthetics and Political Dissent: Strategies of Resistance in American Postmodern Fiction

Ada Jaarsma
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Sonoma State University, Sonoma

Areas of interest: Poststructural thought; feminist theory and theology; contemporary literary theory; gender and sexual difference theory

Dissertation: Troubling the Normal: Encounters with Kierkegaard (2005).

Darrin Madis
Dissertation: Heidegger and Appropriating Nihilism: Reconstructing Dasein from Moral Relativism to Supererogatory Obligation

Chielozona Eze
Assistant Professor in English
Illinois University, Chicago

Areas of interest:  Aesthetics; 20th Century continental philosophy; pragmatism; African and African American literature; creative writing

Dissertation:  Literature as an Ethical Challenge: Alain Locke and the Responsibility of the Negro Artists (2003).

Matthew Abraham
Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Composition (Civic/Political Rhetoric)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Areas of interest: Critical race theory; Marxist theory; semiotics; contemporary literary criticism; rhetoric and composition; critical legal studies; Foucault; critical theory (Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse); phenomenology.

Dissertation: The Rhetoric of Resistance and the Resistance of Theory: Controversial Academic Scholarship in the American Public Sphere (2003).

Tadd Ruetenik
Part-Time Instructor in Philosophy and English
Pennsylvania State University Altoona

Areas of interest: American and 19th and 20th Century Continental European philosophy/literature; world literature; religious studies; psychoanalytic theory.

Dissertation: The Significance of the Sick Soul in the Religious Pragmatism of William James (2003).

Jennifer Purvis
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Dissertation: The Engagement and Intervention: Feminism's Exchange with 19th Century Master Thinkers (2002).

L. Ryan Musgrave
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Rollins College

Dissertation: Critical Aesthetics: Explorations in Contemporary Aesthetics and Politics (2002).

Carol Sebastian-Curiel
Part-Time Instructor
Cuesta College

Dissertation: The Dialectics of Andrew Marvell: A Look at Marvell's Three Dialogue Poems, The Garden, ' and 'An Horatian Ode' in the Context of the History of Dialectic (2000).

Kee Ying Thomas Ming
SPACE Community College of Hong Kong University

Dissertation: Philosophy of Language and the Language of Philosophy (1999).

Timothy Lord
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Heartland Community College

Dissertation: Narratives of Degeneration: Polemical History and the Critique of Modern Philosophy (1995).

Ruth Porritt
Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
West Chester University

Dissertation: A Textual Dialogue: Bakhtin and Derrida on Meaning in Philosophic and Poetic Texts (1989).

E. Imafedia Okhamafe
Professor of Philosophy and English
University of Nebraska, Omaha

Dissertation: The Politics of Pharmakon (1984).

Jeanie Crain
Special Assistant to the President and Professor of English
Missouri Western State College

Dissertation: Aesthetic Structures in Eighteenth Century Thought (1974).

Richard Dubiel
Professor of Communication
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

Dissertation: Disquietude, Existence, and Endurance: Aspects of Paul Tillich's Thought in Selected Works of Ernest Hemingway (1974).