CHRISTOPHER S. YATES CURRICULUM VITAE

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1 CHRISTOPHER S. YATES CURRICULUM VITAE Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts Areas of Specialization 19 th -20 th Century Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Aesthetics & Art Theory Education Ph.D. Philosophy, Boston College M.A. Philosophy. Univ. of Memphis M.A. Theological Studies. Regent College, Vancouver, Canada B.A. History. Univ. of North Carolina Academic Employment Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Grove City College ( ) Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Gordon College & Boston College ( ) (Teaching Fellow, Philosophy, Boston College: ) Select Fellowships and Honors Dissertation Fellowship , Boston College Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Civitas Fellow. Center for Public Justice, Washington, DC. Summer, Publius Fellow. The Claremont Institute, Claremont, CA. Summer, Graduate Student Essay Prize, Ricoeur Society, Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for (Boston College) Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam (Boston College): Distinction. Prize for Interdisciplinary Studies. Regent College Commencement, Courses Recently Taught Graduate: German Idealism & the French Inhuman, Foundational Texts: Plato to Kristeva, The Subject and Object of Art, Readings in Contemporary Theory Undergraduate: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Kierkegaard & Nietzsche, 20 th Century Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, Introduction to Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, Civilization and the Speculative Mind Books The Poetic Imagination in Heidegger and Schelling (Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy, October, 2013). Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from this Widening Gyre (Continuum: February, 2011). Co-Editor with Nathan Eckstrand. Edited Journal Issues Hospitality: Imagining the Stranger, special edition of Religion & the Arts, Vol. 14, No. 5, 1

2 December, The Final Ricoeur, special edition of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 37, No. 9, March, Articles & Book Chapters Poetizing and the Question of Measure, Studia Philosophiae Christianae 49 (forthcoming, Spring 2015). Seams in the Desert: Cormac McCarthy s Literary Ontology of Place, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 2, November, 2014: pp This Double Fidelity: The Messianic Lens for Levinas Eschatological Vision, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 42, No. 2, May, Between Mourning and Magnetism: Derrida and Waldenfels on Hospitality, in Phenomenologies of the Stranger, eds. Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch, Fordham, Grammar of the Uncanny, Religion & the Arts, Vol. 14, No. 3, December, 2010: pp Volume Introduction in Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from this Widening Gyre, eds. C. Yates and Nathan Eckstrand, Continuum, February, 2011: pp Refiguring the Essential Word: The Work of Imagination in Ricoeur s Late Apprenticeship, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 37, No. 9, March, 2011: pp Stations of the Self: Aesthetics and Ascetics in Foucault s Conversion Narrative, Foucault Studies, No. 8, February, 2010: pp A Question of Necessity: Deconstruction, Khōra, and Faith, Irish Theological Quarterly, No. 74, 2009: pp Checking Janicaud s Arithmetic: How Phenomenology and Theology Make Two, Analecta Hermeneutica, Vol. 1, 2009: pp A Phenomenological Aesthetic of Cinematic Worlds, Contemporary Aesthetics Online, ( Vol. 4, Book Reviews, Art Reviews, and Review Essays Phenomenologies of Violence, ed. Michael Staudigl, Continental Philosophy Review, (forthoming, Spring 2015). Akiko Kotani, Soft Walls, Exhibit Catalog Essay, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas. November, The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger, by Felix O Murchadha, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, November,

3 Hume and the Human Imagination: David Hume: Platonic Philosopher, Continental Ancestor, by Bernard Freydberg, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Vol. 5 No. 1, May, Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture, by Lambert Zuidervaart, European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 21 S2, June, 2013: e17-e22. Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire, by Drew Dalton, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 45 No. 2, May, 2012: The Return of Renard: A Review of The Journal of Jules Renard, The Other Journal ( Issue 14, March 11, Cathedrals of the Ordinary: David Gordon Green s Existential Cinema, November, Hope for the Denarrated Self: Revisiting a Decade of Douglas Coupland, Crux, Vol. 39 No. 1 March, 2003: pp Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, by David Brooks; Lost in the Cosmos, by Walker Percy, New Oxford Review. Vol. LXIX No. 3, March, Selected Presentations Caspar David Friedrich and the Reticence of the Beautiful, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA (October 3, 2014). Check One or More: Percy and Heidegger on the Problem of Authenticity, Still Lost in the Cosmos: Walker Percy and the 21 st Century Conference, The Walker Percy Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, (October 11-12, 2013). Revised and presented at Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) Annual Conference in conjunction with SPEP, New Orleans, October 24, Cormac McCarthy s Literary Ontology of Place, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), San Francisco, CA, (September 26-28, 2013). Review of Pol Vandevelde s Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Rochester, NY, November 1, Offspring of Chaos: Artistry and Imagination in Schelling s Freiheitsschrift, North American Schelling Society, Seattle University, August 30-September 1, Heidegger on Poetizing and the Question of Measure, Heidegger Circle Satellite Session, Eastern Division Meeting of APA, Washington DC, December 27-30, 2011 Beyond Anthropologism: Derrida s Heidegger and the Movement of Language, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences annual meeting in conjunction with SPEP, Philadelphia, PA, October 21-24, I also served as Moderator of panel on Heidegger 3

4 and Phenomenology. This paper was also presented at the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle, WA, October 6-10, Navigating the Between: Derrida and Waldenfels on the Art of Hospitality, Philosophy and the Other Conference, Cambridge, Mass, October 1-3, Perception & the Body: Revisiting Husserl s Clue to Intersubjectivity, Localization and Space, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) Annual Conference in conjunction with SPEP, Montreal, November 4-6, In the Interest of Disinterestedness: Kant and his Readers on the Question of Beauty, Canadian Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Montreal, May 28-30, The Necessity of Distress & the Abandonment of Being in Heidegger s Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), The Heidegger Circle, Stony Brook University, Manhattan, May 7-9, Refiguring the Essential Word: The Work of Imagination in Ricoeur s Late Apprenticeship, Ricouer Society Annual Conference, in conjunction with SPEP, Washington, DC, October 30, Narrative Horizons: Mimesis and Time in the Poetics of Paul Ricoeur, Canadian Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences University of British Columbia, May 31, The Venture of the Distressed: Five Steps to Understanding and Enacting the Heart of Heidegger s Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), Heidegger Symposium, Boston College, April 16, Promise before Light? Derrida s Khora and the Borders of Belief, Conference on Belief and Metaphysics, The Centre of Theology & Philosophy, Granada, Spain. September, A Phenomenological Aesthetic of Cinematic Worlds, American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, March 29-31, 2006 Absolute and A Priori: Kant, Space, and the Problem of Incongruent Counterparts, Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN. February, World Without End? Levinas and the Localization of Transcendence through and Eschatology without Eschaton, Conference on Transcendence & Phenomenology, The Centre of Theology & Philosophy, University of Nottingham. September, Invited Talks The Artistry of Philosophy and the Wisdom of Art, Graduate Commencement Address, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, January, 2014, New York City. 4

5 To Think like the Artist Paints: Schelling on the Philosophical Imagination, Slippery Rock University, Department of Philosophy, Spring Lecture Series, April 16, Sartre on Freedom and Bad Faith, Boston College, Philosophy of Existence Seminar, Richard Kearney, Guest Presentation, April 2, Kierkegaard s Abraham and the Paradox of Faith, Boston College, Philosophy of the Person Course, Anna Djintcharadzé, Guest Presentation, March 30, Heidegger s Project of Fundamental Ontology, Boston College, Philosophy of Existence Seminar, Richard Kearney, Guest Presentation, February 24, 2009, February 22, 2010, February 24, Hospitality and the Stranger in Derrida and Waldenfels, Boston College, Hosting the Stranger Seminar, Richard Kearney, Guest Presentation, February 18, Kant s View of the Imagination, Boston College, Philosophy of the Imagination Seminar, Richard Kearney, Guest Presentation, October 21, Aesthetics and Ascetics in Foucault s Art of Living, Boston College Philosophy Forum, October 24, Derrida s Heidegger and the Task for Thinking, Guest Presentation in Prof. John Sallis Graduate Seminar, Boston College: Phenomenology and its Aftermath, April, Languages Reading knowledge of German, French, Greek Select Creative Work Angles and Garden (poems), Ruminate Magazine (forthcoming, Summer 2015). No Time to be Lost, screenplay (Wiseblood Books: 2014). Freud s Last Session (actor), by Mark St. Germain, Paper Sky Productions, d. Marianne DiQuattro, Grove City, PA, May September, I played the role of Freud. Silo Factor (short-fiction), Ruminate Magazine (Issue 23, 2012). Winter Treads, screenplay (dir. Max Butler, Nashville, TN, 2011). Crossroads: Looking For a Home, produced/directed short documentary film. (2002). Professional Memberships Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, College Art Association, Ricoeur Society, North American Levinas Society, The Heidegger Circle, American Philosophical Association, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Schelling Society of North America 5