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CURRICULUM VITAE
Kevin Corrigan
Present Position: Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Address: Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Emory University
S410 Callaway Center
Tel: 404-727-6460
Email: [email protected]
Languages: Speak: English, French
Read: English, French, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish, Italian
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
2015- Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Associated in Classics, Philosophy,
Religion/Graduate division of Religion
2009-15 Chair/Director, ILA
2009- Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities
2009- Associated in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
2007-2009 Director of Graduate Studies, ILA
2007- Associated in Classics, Philosophy and Religion
2006-2007 Senior Research Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
2005-2006 Interim Director, ILA
2004- Director, Medieval Studies
2003-2006 Director, Undergraduate Studies, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory
University
2003 - Professor (tenured), Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
2002-2003 Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and Classics, Emory
University
2001-2002 Visiting Professor, Humanities (Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Comparative
Literature), Emory University
2000-2001 Director, Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies Programme (16
participating departments), Department of History, College of Arts and Science,
University of Saskatchewan (and Associate Member)
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1993-1994 Research Fellow, Department of Latin and Greek, University College
London, England
1992- Full Professor
1991-1998 Dean, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
1990- Associate Member, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts and Science,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask.
1989-1992 Associate Professor
1988- Associate Member, Department of Classics, College of Arts and Science,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask.
1986-1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy (tenured, 1988), St. Thomas
More College, Saskatoon, Sask.
1985-1986 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy & Classics, University of
Regina, Regina, Sask.
1983-1985 Sessional Lecturer, Department of Philosophy & Classics, University of Regina,
Regina, Sask.
1982-1986 Assistant Professor (term position), Philosophy & Classics, Acting Director of
the University Programme, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Wilcox,
Sask.
1980-1982 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
Research Fellow, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Wilcox, Sask.
1977-1980 Ph.D. in Classics\Philosophy, Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ph.D
Thesis: Plotinus' Implicit Critique of Aristotle
1975-1977 M.A. in Classics\Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada (Supervisor: A.H. Armstrong)
1973-1975 B.A. (Hons.) in Classics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England (Supervisor:
G.J. P. O'Daly)
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PUBLISHED WORK
Books
1. The Life of St. Macrina by St. Gregory of Nyssa, trans., introduction and notes,
Peregrina, Toronto, 1987. Reprinted 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001.
2. Plotinus' Theory of Matter - Evil and the Question of Substance: Plato, Aristotle, and
Alexander ofAphrodisias, Peeters Press, Louvain, Belgium, 1996,pp. 485 and xviii.
3. Plato's Dialectic at Play: Structure, Myth, and Argument in the Symposium (with Elena
Glazov-Corrigan), Penn State Press, 2004.
4. Plotinus: a practical introduction to Neoplatonism, Purdue University Press, 2004.
5. Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern, ed. with John D. Turner, Brill, Leiden,
May, 2007.
6. Reading Ancient Texts: The Presocratics and Plato. Essays in Honour of Denis O’Brien,
ed. with Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Brill, Leiden, 2007.
7. Reading Ancient Texts: Aristotle to Augustine, Brill, Leiden, 2007.
8. Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century: Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa,
Ashgate Press, UK, 2009.
9. Plato’s Parmenides and its heritage, Volume I: History and Interpretation from the Old
Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism, SBL: Atlanta, 2010 (Leiden: Brill,
2011).
10. Plato’s Parmenides and its heritage, Volume II: Reception in Patristic, Gnostic, and
Christian Neoplatonic Texts, SBL: Atlanta, 2010 (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
11. Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions: from Antiquity to
the Early Medieval Period, (In honor of Steven K. Strange), edited with John D. Turner,
P. Wakefield, Sankt Augustin: Akademia Verlag, 2012.
12. Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and early Christian Thought, Ashgate Press,
UK. 2013.
13. Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World: Essays in Honour of John D. Turner.
Edited by Kevin Corrigan and Tuomas Rasimus, in collaboration with Dylan Burns,
Lance Jenott and Zeke Mazur. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. Leiden: Brill
2013.
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14. Plotin. Traités 31- 32, Commentaire, for Les Belles Lettres, Vrin, Paris (by invitation
2014), 2017.
15. Plotinus. Ennead VI 8, On the Free Will of the One, text, translation and commentary, for
Parmenides Press, USA (by invitation-2015), to appear 2017.
16. Ecology and the Ancient World, (with John Dillon) (proposed completion—2018).
17. Plotin. Traités 2-6, for Les Belles Lettres, Vrin, Paris (by invitation—2018).
18. An unfamiliar Plato—manuscript at present of 150 pages (proposed completion—
2018/2019).
19. Knowing and Seeing: Stereotypes in Ordinary Life (with Elizabeth Goodstein, eds)—
book proposal (June 2017) and then manuscript for publication.
20. Anthropology, Psychoanalysis and Interdisciplinarity –provisional title (with Kim
Loudermilk, eds)—book proposal (June 2017) and then manuscript for publication.
Articles, chapters, reviews
1. "The Internal Dimensions of the Sensible Object in the thought of Plotinus and
Aristotle", Dionvsius V, 1982, 98-126.
2. "Domus Dei, Domus Hominis: Some Reflections on home, love and creativity in
Antiquity", The Canadian Catholic Review, Vol I, 1983.
3. "A Philosophical Precursor to the Theory of Essence and Existence in St. Thomas
Aquinas", The Thomist, 48, 1984,219-240.
4. "The Irreconcilable Opposition Between the Platonic and Aristotelian Conceptions
of the Soul in some Ancient and Mediaeval Thinkers"; Laval Théologique et
Philosophique, 41, 3, 1985, 391-401.
5. "Body's Approach to Soul: An Examination of a Recurrent Theme in the Enneads",
Dionysius IX, 1985, 37-52.
6. "El Simbolismo Natural de la Luz en Plotino", Revista de Filosofia Vol.XXV-
XXVI, Oct. 1985, 51-56 (trans. Prof. O. Vélasquez).
7. "Ivan's Devil in The Brothers Karamazov in the light of a traditional Platonic view
of evil", Forum for Modern Languages, 22, 1986, 1-9, January 1986.
8. "Plotinus' Enneads 5,4 [7],2 and related passages: A New Interpretation of the
Status of the Intelligible Object," Hermes, 114, 1986, 195-204.
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9. "Is there more than one generation of matter in the Enneads?” Phronesis, 21, 1986,
167-181.
10. "Body and Soul in Ancient Religious Experience" in Classical Mediterranean
Spirituality, ed. A.H. Armstrong, vol. XV of World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic
History of the Religious Quest, Fordham University Press, New York, 1986, 360-
384.
11. "The Course of Plotinian Scholarship from 1970-1986," Aufstieg und Niedergang
der römischen Welt, Band II, 36, 1, 1987,571-623.
12. "Amelius, Plotinus and Porphyry on Being, Intellect and the One," Aufstieg und
Niedergang der römischen Welt, Band II, 36, 2, 1987, 975-993.
13. "Saint Macrina: the hidden face behind the making of a tradition," Vox Benedictina
5, 1, 1988, 13-42 (reprinted in On Pilgrimage, ed. M. King, Hignell, Winnipeg,
1994, 99-110).
14. "On the generation of matter in the Enneads. A reply", Dionysius 12, 1988, 17-24.
15. "Conflict and Consistency in the Theories of Matter in Plotinus and Ibn Gabirol",
in Proceedings of the XIIth International Conference on Patristic, Mediaeval and
Renaissance Studies, Villanova, 1989, 101-112.
16. "Syncletica and Macrina: Two Early Lives of Women Saints". Vox Benedictina 6,
3, 1989, 241-256.
17. "The Function of the Ideal in Plato's Republic and Thomas More's Utopia",
Moreana (France), 1990, XXVII, 104, 27-49.
18. Plotinus. The Experience of Unity. Gary Gurtler - Review, Ancient Philosophy. 10,
1990, 143-145.
19. "A New Source for the Distinction between Esse and Quod Est in Boethius' De
Hebdomadibus," Studia Patristica XVIII, 1991, 4, 133-138.
20. "On Intellect's Relation to the One in Plotinus" (Review article), Ancient
Philosophy 12 (1992), 230-237.
21. "Light and Metaphor in Plotinus and Thomas Aquinas", The Thomist, 57, 2(1993),
187-200.
22. "Value and the University: A Philosophical Perspective", in Value and the
University, ed. L.M. Findley, Humanities Research Unit, University of
Saskatchewan (1993), 55- 62.
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23. "Plotinus and St. Gregory of Nyssa: Can Matter have a Positive function?" Studia
Patristica 1993, volume 27, 14-20.
24. "Berkeley and Plotinus on the non-existence of matter", invited paper delivered to
the Stephen MacKenna Society on the four hundredth anniversary of Trinity
College, Dublin, May 1992, (1 1/2 hrs., 33 pages); Hermathena, Dublin, CLVII,
Winter 1994, 67-86.
25. "Ecstasy and ectasy in some early pagan and Christian mystical writings", Greek
and Medieval Studies in Honor of Leo Sweeney, S.J., eds. William J. Carroll &
John J. Furlong, Peter Lang, New York, Berlin, 1995, 27-37.
26. “‘Solitary’ Mysticism in some pagan and Christian mystical writings: Plotinus,
Proclus, Gregory of Nyssa and Pseudo-Dionysius", the Journal of Religion, 1996,
28-42.
27. "Some notes towards a study of the' solitary' and the' dark' in Plotinus, Gregory of
Nyssa, Produs, and Pseudo- Dionysius" Studia Patristica XXX, 1996, 151-7.
28. "Education in the Liberal Arts and Academicism", in The Relevance of a Humanistic
and Libertal Arts Education to Asia in the 21st Century. ed. Paul A. Dumol, Pasig
City, Philippines, 1996, 17-26.
29. Review of L.P. Gerson, Plotinus, Routledge, London and New York, 1994, The
Heythrop Journal. Fall, 1996, 495-7.
30. Review of Pierre Hadot, The Simplicity of Vision (english translation), Ancient
Philosophy 16 (1996) 275-6.
31. Review of Peter Kingsley. Ancient Philosophy. Mystery. and Magic. Empedocles
and Pythagorean Tradition, Oxford, 1995, European Review of History, vol. 3, part
2, Autumn, 1996.
32. Review of John Sallis, Being and Logos. Reading the Platonic Dialogues, 3rd ed. 1995,
Dialogue. The Canadian Philosophical Review, XXXVIII, 1, 1996, 173-5.
33. 'Essence and Existence in the Enneads', The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus,
Cambridge, 1996, 105-129.
34. "The comic-serious figure and theme in Plato's Middle Dialogues", Laughter Down
the Centuries Vol. III, ed. Siegfried Jäkel, Annales Universitatis Turkuensis
Finland, 1997, 55-64.
35 "The Faces of Christianity: Can There be a Jerusalem Without an Athens?" In Medias
Res, 1998 (Saskatoon), a keynote address at the opening of a doctoral program in Catholic
Studies, Loyola University, Chicago, serialized in two parts, In Medias Res, vol. 3, nos. 2
& 3, 1998.
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36. "Procession and conversion: an "echo" of integral reflexivity in Plotinus' thought",
Mediterranean Perspectives, Dowling College Press, New York, 1999.
37. "L'auto-réflexivité et I'expérience humaine dans l'Ennéade V 3(49) et autres traités:
de Plotin a Thomas d'Aquin", Études sur Plotin, sous la direction de Michel Fattal,
L'Harmattan, Paris and Montreal, 2000, 149-172.
38. "Being-Life-Mind and the Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides: Middle or
Neoplatonic?” Gnosticism and Later Platonism, eds. as above, Atlanta, 2000, 141-
78.
39. "Positive and Negative Notions of Matter in Later Platonism: the uncovering of
Plotinus' dialogue with the Gnostics", Gnosticism and Later Platonism, eds. John
D. Turner and Ruth Majercik, Atlanta, 2000, 19-56.
40. "The problem of personal and human identity in Plotinus and Gregory of Nyssa",
Studia Patristica, vol. xxxvii, 2001, 51-68.
41. "Being and the eclipse of soul: Plato and the philosophical tradition", Diadoche.
Revista de Estudios de Filosofiá Platónica y Cristiana, 2001, 8-17.
42. Review of John Sallis and John Russon, Retracing the Platonic Text, Northwestern,
1999, Philosophy in Review, 2001
43. Review of Late Antiquity. A Guide to the Postclassical World, G.W. Bowersock, P.
Brown, O. Grabar, Belknap, Harvard, 2000, The Canadian Journal of
History, 2001.
44. “On the non-discursive in Neoplatonism,” review article of Reading
Neoplatonism: non discursive thinking in Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius, by
Sara Rappe, Cambridge, 2001, Ancient Philosophy, 2002 (8 pages).
45. "Altruism and Artistic Apprehension in the Ancient and Modern Worlds: Plato,
Aristotle, and Plotinus," The Structurist, 2002, 4-11.
46. "Quelques problèmes posés par l'anthropologie de Plotin et la conception de soi-
même dans le traité V, 3(49)", in La Connaissance de Soi. Études sur le traité 49
de Plotin, Vrin, Paris, 2002, 133-56.
47. “A Forgotten Background: Neoplatonic Elements in the Interpretation of
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale”, (with Elena Glazov-Corrigan), Dionysius, XX,
2002, 199-218.
48. “Love of God, love of self, and love of neighbour: Augustine’s critical dialogue
with Platonism”, Augustinian Studies, 34, 2003, 1-12.
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49. “Plotin, la discursivité et le temps futur du langage”, Logos et langage chez Plotin
et avant Plotin, ed., M. Fattal, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2003, 223-45.
50. “Ivan’s Devil in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov in the light of a
traditional Platonic view of evil”, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Gale
publications, Farmington Hills, MI 2002.
51. “Greek Philosophers”, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia,
General Editor, Phyllis G. Jestice, ABC-CLIO, 2004, vol. 1, 319-21.
52. “Greek Prophets”, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia,
2004, vol. 1, 321-2.
53. “Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism”, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural
Encyclopedia, 2004, vol. 2, 705-6.
54. “An Ecological Ethos and Presocratic Thinking: can we really learn anything new
from the past?” The Structurist, 2004, no. 43/44, 12-17.
55. Corrigan, Kevin and Still, Carl N., “The Problem of Aquinas’s notion of reditio
completa in relation to its sources”, in Being and Thought in Aquinas, eds.
Jeremiah Hackett, William E. Murnion, and Carl N. Still, Binghampton, NY:
Global Academic Publishing, 2004, 1-15.
56. “Pseudo-Dionysius”, with Michael Harrington, The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, 2004 (12,000+ words), on-line- Library of Congress Catalog Data,
ISSN 1095-5054 .
57. “The place of the Parmenides in Plato’s thought and the major strands of ancient
and modern interpretation”, to appear in Plato’s Parmenides and its reception,
SBL/Brill, 2010, see under Books above.
58. “Plato’s Symposium and Bakhtin’s theory of novelistic discourse”, in
Bakhtin,The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative, editor, Bracht Banham,
electronic access: www.ancientnarrative.com, 2004,book: Groningen,
Groningen University Press, 2005, 32-50.
59. “A new view of idea, thought and education in Bergson and Whitehead”,
Interchange, Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 2005, vol. 36, 179-98.
60. “The problem of the self and its centre: Postmodernity and Neoplatonism”, in
History of Platonism: Plato Redivivus, eds. R. Berchman and J. Finamore,
University Press of the South, 2005.
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61. “The problem of the tripartite soul from Plato’s dialogues to late Antiquity”
(lecture delivered to a conference on Plato’s Republic at Guelph University,
Canada, September 2005) (30 pages).
62. “The soul-body relation in and before Augustine”, Studia Patristica, Peeters,
Louvain, 2006, Vol. XLIII, 59-80.
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63. “Ecology’s future debt to Neoplatonism”, Keynote Address to The International
Society of Neoplatonic Studies, Liverpool, UK, June, 2004, in Late Antique
Epistemology, eds. P. Vassilopoulou and S. R. L. Clark, Palgrave Macmillan,
2009, 250-72.
64. “From Parmenides to Anselm: Philosophy as Prayer”, to appear in Literary Form,
Philosophical Content: Historical Studies in Philosophical Genres, eds. Jonathan
Lavery and Louis Groarke, Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 2009 (20
pages).
65. Review of Alexandrine Schniewind, L’Ethique du sage: le paradigme du
Spoudaios, Paris: Vrin, 2003, Ancient Philosophy, 2006 (6 pages).
66. “ ‘To make a form it is necessary to fill everything with contemplation': Making
sense of creative horizons in the thought of Plotinus, Aristotle, and Plato", Divine
Creation in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought, Essays in Honour of
Robert Crouse, eds. Michael Treschow, Willemien Otten, and Walter Hannam,
Leiden: Brill, 2007, 101-16.
67. “The Invention of Sacred Tradition: Pseudo-Dionysius”, with Michael
Harrington, to appear in a volume entitled The Invention of Sacred Tradition:
Sacred Forgeries, ed. Olav Hammer (University of Amsterdam), Cambridge
University Press, 2007, 241-57.
68. “The Face of the other: a comparison between the thought of Emmanuel Levinas,
Plato and Plotinus”, in Platonisms (see Books above), 2007, 219-235.
69. “Trexsostovnaia I dvuxsostavnaia dusha v dialogax Platona, u Evagriia
Pontiiskogo I Grigoriia Nizkogo” [The tripartite or bipartite soul of Plato’s
dialogues in late antiquity: Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa] in
Uspenskie chteniia 2007: Unity of cultures [Uspenskie chtenia: Iedinnost’
kul’tur]. Dukh I litera. Kyiv 2007.
70. “The organization of the soul: some overlooked aspects of interpretation from
Plato to late Antiquity” in Reading Ancient Texts, Volume I, 2007 (see books
above), 99-114.
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71. “Ritual resources of tolerance in Graeco-Roman religion”, in Religious Tolerance
in World Religions, eds. Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton, Templeton Foundation
Press, 2008, 99-132.
72. “Human, animal, plant kinship and the question of the good: did the Ancient
World have a theory of animal rights?” (with Arri Eisen (Biology) and Ellen
Spears (ILA and Environmental Studies)), lecture/roundtable at the Fox Center,
April, 2007 (a trial version of part of Chapter 9 of Ecology and Neoplatonism-see
books above)-also presented to the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies,
New Orleans, June, 2008.
73. “Ousia and Hypostasis in the Cappadocian Fathers (Basil of Caesarea and
Gregory of Nyssa)”, lecture for a small invited conference, Mittelplatonisches im
nachplotinischen Diskurs bis Augustin und Proklos, 26-28 July, 2007, Tübingen,
Germany, Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, volume 12, 2008, 114-34.
74. “Medical Hermeneutics: Diagnosis in Hippocrates and Galen”, Public Seminar
and Lecture at Emory Medical School and Emory College as part of experimental
course organized by Sander Gilman, February, 2008.
75. “Pseudo-Dionysius” (with Michael Harrington), The History of Western
Philosophy of Religion, Volume 1, ed. Nick Trakakis (Australia), to appear 2011,
Oxford University Press, 22 pages.
76. “Plotinus on the Second Part of the Parmenides: Amelius, Porphyry and Proclus”
to appear in vol. 2 of Plato’s Parmenides (see Books above), 2009 (delivered to
the AAR/SBL Seminar, Rethinking Plato’s Parmenides, 19 November, 2005,
Philadelphia, (25 pages)).
77. “The Liberal Arts and the forgetfulness of Modernity”, to appear in a volume of
Evagrian Studies, edited by Augustine Casiday, Orientalia Christiana Analecta.
(30 pages), 2009.
78. “Religious and secular reason” for a volume of the same title and as a 1 hour
lecture, College of the Holy Cross. Boston, Mass., April 22-23, 2006- to appear as
“Athens, Jerusalem…Overcoming the Exclusivist Paradigms of the Past”,
University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.
79. The final chapter entitled “Religious Platonism” of a first volume on Pre-
Christian Europe in a series on European History of Religions, edited by Olav
Hammer (Copenhagen) for Equinox Publishing, UK, to appear 2009.
80. “Plato’s Symposium and Republic in the mystical writings of Plotinus and the
Sethian Gnostics” La Mystique dans la Gnose et chez Plotin, 20-21 March, 2009
at Université Laval (Quebec)-to be published by Laval Université Press.
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81. “The tradition of Parmenides-interpretation and its importance for models of
Trinitarian Theology in the 4th Century CE”, to appear in vol. 2 of Plato’s
Parmenides. (see Books above), 2009.
82. “Simmias’ objection to Socrates in the Phaedo and later Platonic and Patristic
responses to the mind/soul-body question”, to appear in The International Journal
of the Platonic Tradition, 2010.
83. “Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic tradition,” to appear in Religion and
Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions: from Antiquity to the
Early Medieval Period (Pagan, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Comparative
Eastern Perspectives), edited with Steven K. Strange, to appear from Akademia
Verlag, Germany, 2010.
84. Review of Metaphysical Patterns in Platonism. Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance
and Modern Times, eds. John F. Finamore and Robert M. Berchman, University
Press of the South, 2007, The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition,
2010, 104-106.
85. “The Ladder of Ascent in Plato, the Gnostics and Plotinus: the Symposium and
Allogenes.” Laval Théologique et Philosophique (In Press)
86. “Simmias’ objection to Socrates in the Phaedo: harmony, symphony and some
later Platonic/ Patristic responses to the mind/soul-body question.” The
International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, Volume 4, no. 2, 2010, 147-62.
87. “Religious Platonism: philosophy and religion in the Platonic Tradition,” in L. B.
Christensen, O. Hammer and D. A. Warburton (Series Ed.), The Handbook of
Religions in Ancient Europe. Durham, UK, Acumen, 2015, 263-77.
88. “The out-of-doors/indoors perspective for ecological thinking in ancient thought,”
panel contribution for the Association of Integrative Studies Annual Meeting, San
Diego, October 2010.
89. “Plato’s Symposium and Republic in the mystical writings of Plotinus and the
Sethian Gnostics” La Mystique dans la Gnose et chez Plotin, 20-21 March, 2009
to appear in Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World: Essays in
Honour of John D. Turner. Edited by Kevin Corrigan and Tuomas Rasimus, in
collaboration with Dylan Burns, Lance Jenott and Zeke Mazur. Nag Hammadi
and Manichaean Studies. Leiden: Brill (2013).
90. “Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic tradition,” Religion and Philosophy in
the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions: from Antiquity to the Early Medieval
Period, Akademia Verlag: Sankt Augustin, 2012, 11-20.
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91. “Thoughts that Cut: Cutting, Imprinting and Lingering in the thought of Evagrius
of Pontus,” Byzantine Workshop: Notre Dame University (May 25-31, 2010)
Invited Talk, in preparation for a formal lecture at Dumbarton Oaks (April 2011)
and to appear in a special volume dedicated to the Life and Afterlife of Evagrius of
Pontus, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012-13.
92. “The Intercultural Roots of Presocratic Philosophy,” review article of A Story
Waiting to Pierce you, Peter Kingsley –Philosophy East and West Volume 62,
number 2, 2012, 281-86.
93. “Collaborative thinking: the Challenge of the Modern University,” Arts &
Humanities in Higher Education, July 2012 vol. 11 no. 3, 262-272..
94. “The Meaning of “One”: Plurality and Unity in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism,”
Practicing Gnosis. Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi,
Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger Pearson,
eds. April De Conick, Gregory Shaw, and John D. Turner, Leiden: Brill, 2013.
95. “Suffocation or germination: infinity, formation and calibration of the mind in
Evagrius’ notion of contemplation,” Studia Patristica, 2014.
96. “The Good, animals and plants—the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition,” The
Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, eds. Svetla Slaveva-Griffin and Pauliina
Remes, 2015.
97. “Plotinus and the Gnostics: the peculiar impact of the Tripartite Tractate and later
works,” (with John D. Turner), to appear in Estratégias anti-gnósticas nos
escritos de Plotino, ed. Mauricio Marsola, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2016.
98. “Compunction and Compassion: two overlooked virtues in Evagrius of
Pontus”— Journal of Early Christian Studies, 22, 2014, 61-77.
99. “Evil in Neoplatonism,” a chapter to appear in The History of Evil in Antiquity,
edited by Tom Angier, Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro, to be published by
Acumen Publishing, UK as Volume 1 in The History of Evil series, edited by
Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro.
100. “Sorrow and Compunction in Scripture and the ascetic tradition”—in preparation
(RAM)
101. Review of Sarah Klitenic Wear, The Teachings of Syrianus on Plato’s Timaeus
and Parmenides, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2011, in Ancient Philosophy 35, 2015,
243-246.
102. “Divine and Human Freedom: Enneads 3 8 (30), 6 7 (38), 6 8 (39) and Plotinus’
New Understanding of Creative Agency.” In Causation and Creation in Classical
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and Late Antiquity, Anna Marmodoro and Brian Prince (eds.). Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2014.
103. “Friendship in Platonism,” Keynote Address at Berkeley, CA, September, 2014,
in honor of John M Dillon on the occasion of his 75th birthday, to appear in a
special Festschrift, Oxford 2015/2016.
104. “The sources and structures of power and activity in Plotinus,” to appear in Divine
Powers in Late Antiquity, eds. Eirini Viltanioti and Anna Marmodoro, Oxford
University Press, 2016.
105. “Trauma before Trauma: recognizing, healing and transforming the wounds of
soul-mind in the works of Evagrius of Pontus,” Session on Evagrius of Pontus, at
the XVIth International Conference of Patristic Studies, Oxford, August, 2015, to
appear in a special volume of Studia Patristica, 2016/2017.
106. “Against the Stereotype of Abstract Knowledge: a case for scientific perception
through “types” in Plato’s Middle and Late Dialogues,” Lecture for the
Conference, Seeing and Knowing, Stereotypes in Our Daily Life. A Festschrift in
Honor of Sander Gilman, 12-14 October, 2015.
107. ““Even the good casts a shadow: rethinking Plato’s ‘essentialism’ in the modern
world,” Lecture at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, September
2015, to appear in the Wenshan Review, 2016.
108. “Love, friendship and the ascent through the Beautiful to the Good: Plato,
Aristotle and Plotinus,” AAR/SBL session on Eros and Ascent in the Ancient and
Medieval World, November 2015.
109. “Gnosticism Imagined,” (with John D. Turner) Gnosticism, Esotericism and
Mysticism, ed. April De Conick, MacMillan, 2016.
110. “Mind, soul and body in Plotinus, Gregory of Nyssa and Evagrius of Pontus”
[January-February 2016]—Completed March 09, 2016. To appear in a volume
edited by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin and Ilaria Ramelli (Oxford).
111. “The Place and Scope of Participation in Plato and Aristotle,” for a volume on
Participation in the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Worlds, edited
by Douglas Hedley, Cambridge, 2017..
112. “Christian Asceticism,” for a volume on the Mind-Body Question, edited by
Anna Marmadoro and, in principle accepted by Cambridge University Press—I
was one of two readers for the Press and finally accepted their subsequent request
for this chapter, 2017.
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113. “Pseudo-Dionysius,” [with Michael L. Harrington] invited article for Wiley-
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, eds. Stewart Goetz and
Charles Taliaferro, June 2017.
114. “Plato, Plotinus and Ficino: How to read a Platonic Dialogue,” Keynote
115. “Plotinus,” Chapter for the Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christian Thought.
116. “Plotinus and Iamblichus,” Chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Christian
Philosophy.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Many articles/editorials in The Voice and In Medias Res.
Numerous talks: Newman Centre, Students Union, University Orientations, Recruitment,
Government Negotiations, introduction of speakers, Moderator of events, etc.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (only different courses are noted):
a) Athol Murray College of Notre Dame and University of Regina
Greek 100, 10I
Latin 100, 101
Greek 200
Latin 200
Catullus and Horace (Latin 240)
Latin Literature (340)
Vergil, Aeneid
Homer,Iliad 1 - 3 (Greek 394)
4-6
7-9
10- 12
Homer, Odyssey 1 - 3, 4 - 8 (Greek 210)
9 - 12 (Greek 395)
Plato, Timaeus (Greek 396)
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Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus Coloneus (Greek 397)
Ancient Philosophy (Phil. 211)
Introduction to Philosophy (Phil. 100)
Mediaeval Philosophy (Phil. 212)
Aquinas and Dante (Phil. 390)
Greek and Roman Mythology (Humanities 200)
Patristics (Christological and Trinitarian debates)
Patristics: The Cappadocians
b) St. Thomas More College, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan
Introduction to Philosophy (110)
Philosophy of Human Nature (294)
Critical Thinking(105)
Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (218)
Man and His Destiny in Contemporary Continental Philosophy (219)
Advanced Problems in Philosophy (Plotinus, Augustine, Hegel and Teilhard de Chardin)
General Ethics (Phil. 230)
Bio-Medical Ethics (Phil. 234)
Ancient Philosophy to Aristotle (Classics 338/Phil. 208)
Hellenistic Philosophy (Classics 339/Phil. 209)
Ancient Philosophy (Classics 340)
Mediaeval Philosophy (Augustine to Bonaventure) (297)
Modern Philosophy (Descartes, Pascal, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant)
Philosophical Texts, Plato (320)
Philosophical Thinkers, Plotinus (312/838); Kant
Philosophical Problems (304)
Greek Reading: Plotinus VI, 7; I, 6 (Classics 306)
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Special Topics: Plato (499)
Aristotle (898)
Plotinus (890)
The Problem of Being, Becoming, and Nothing in Ancient and Modem Thought (830)
Aesthetics: Coleridge, Emerson, and Dickinson (871)
Chelsea Programme, Integated First Year Programme (approx. 4 1/2 hours per week)
Foundation Programme, Integrated First and Upper Year Programme (multidisciplinary)
English/Philosophy Interdisciplinary team-taught Introdution.
Philosophy Seminar (404)
Late Ancient Christian Thought and the Question of Personhood I and II (898, 899)
Topics in Greek and Roman Thought (808)
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Classics Seminar (Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Shakespeare,
Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Sartre, Contemporary psychotherapy
(Freud, Adler, Frankl), Solzhenitsyn), 6 days: 6 hours per day, 16.23 July, 2001, Notre
Dame College, Wilcox, Saskatchewan- a documentary film of the event was made.
c) Emory University
Latin 101 (2001-2002)
Latin 102 (2001-2; 2002-3)
Comparative Literature Graduate Seminar: The Face of the Other: The Master – Slave
dialectic from Homer to Levinas (2001-2002)
Latin 370: Cicero on Literature (2002-2003)
Institute of Liberal Arts 771: Graduate Foundations (2002-2003)
Freshman Seminar (2002-2003): Soul-making: a forgotten art in the Western world?
Directed Reading (Graduate- several sections, 2003-4):
1) Western Thought from Homer to Bakhtin
2) Psychoanalysis and the idea of the University
3) Different representations of Hawthorne
4) Dostoevsky and Nabokov: History and Interpretation of Mimesis
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Graduate Seminar (2003): Modernity, Post-Modernity, and the Post-Modern Plato.
Classical Mythology 102- 140 students (2004)
Graduate Seminar (2004): Plato and Love (Lysis, Symposium, Republic, Phaedrus)
Directed Reading (Graduate-2004): Aesthetics: Outline and History from Ancient Drama to
Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer.
IDS 390 (2006-7; 2010)
IDS 499: (2006-7)
ILA 790/330 (2007-8): Plato and the Platonic Tradition.
ILA 771 (2009): Interdisciplinary Foundations
IDS 385 (2010): Shakespeare and the Philosophy of Virtue and Vice
IDS 385/CPLIT 389: Literature, Religion and Philosophy in Dialogue
IDS 385/Russian 385: Dostoevsky
MESAS 370: Sages and Saints: The Greco-Roman Heritage of the Middle Eastern World
ILA 782 Research Design
ILA/Philosophy/CompLit/Religion 790: From Platonism to Neoplatonism
ICIVS 770: Neoplatonism and Medieval Thought: pagan, Jewish, Christian and Islamic
Thesis Supervision (University of Saskatchewan)
External Examiner for M.A. thesis, "Values: A Qualitative Exploration", Fern Winder,
Psychology Department, 1991
External Examiner for M.A. thesis, "The Ymaginatif in Piers Plowman", English Department,
1992
External Examiner for M.A. thesis on "An Object in Space", Christine Bernier, Department
of Art and Art History, 1992.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on Dance and Philosophy, “A Critical Evaluation of David Best's
Aesthetics of Dance", Suzanne Jaeger, Philosophy Department, Defended Sept. 1992.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on Plato: mythos and logos, Rachel Fern, Philosophy
Department, 1993-1995.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on "Teleonomy and Teleology: Aristotle and Ernst Mayer",
Patrick Morris, Philosophy Department, 1991-1996.
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Supervisor for M.A. thesis on "The Formation of Mental Images in St. Thomas Aquinas and
its Relevance to the Contemporary Artificial Intelligence Debate", Darryl Stafflund,
Philosophy Department, 1992-1996.
Advisor for Ph.D. thesis,' "The Person in Boethius", Sean Mulroney, Philosophy
Department, University of Toronto, 1992.
External Examiner for M.A. thesis, "Philosophical Anthropology: EricVoegelin and Charles
Taylor", David Unruh, Department of Political Studies, 1996.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on "Ethics and Aristotle", Viola Woodhouse, Philosophy
Department, 1992-1996.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on Religious Language and Philosophy, David Ferris, Philosophy
Department, 1994-1996.
Supervisor for Ph.D. thesis on Jacques DuBosc and 17th Century France, Colleen Fitzgerald,
History Department, 1995-1996.
External Examiner for M.A. thesis on "Feebly Figurative Signs: The Aesthetic, Ethical, and
Religious in W.H. Auden", English Department, September 1996.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on Epistemology and Ancient Philosophy, Margaret
Kendrachuk, Philosophy Department, 1996.
External Examiner, Ph.D. thesis on Plotinus, University of Ottawa, November 1997.
External Examiner for 2 M.A. theses on the nature of religious thought and mystical
experience, ReligiousStudies,1996-2000.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Coleridge and the Imagination,
Leonard Epp, English Department, 1997-1999.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on Dickinson, Emerson, and the Platonic Tradition, Celene
Sidloski, English Department, 1997-1999.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on Arendt, Weil, Gadamer and Plato, Wayne Turner, Philosophy
Department, 1996-2000.
Supervisor for M.A. thesis on Personhood and the Cappadocians, Gladys Neufeld,
Philosophy Dept., 2000-2003.
Thesis Supervision (Emory University)
20 undergraduate Honors theses-in ILA, Comparative Literature, Religion, Philosophy;
Member or supervisor of 27 Ph.D. theses (in ILA, Philosophy, Religion, Comparative Literature,
French).
External Examiner, Ph. D. thesis, Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne);
External Examiner, Ph.D; MA, University of Bolton, UK.
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Member and partial supervisor, Ph.D. thesis and comprehensive committee, Committee on
Social Thought, University of Chicago.
STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS:
1975 – 1976 Dalhousie Fellowship
1976 – 1979 Isaac Walter Killam Doctoral Scholarship
1979 – 1980 SSHRCC Doctoral Fellowship (Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada)
AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS
Master Teacher Award, St. Thomas More College, 1989-1990.
University of Saskatchewan SSHRCC Grant, 1988.
SSHRCC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
Research Fellowship, 1988-90 ($ 13,000).
SSHRCC Research Fellowship, 1992-95 ($44,000).
Nominated, USSU (University of Saskatchewan Students' Union) Teaching Award, 1995-6.
Nominated, USSU (University of Saskatchewan Students' Union) Teaching Award, 1996-7.
Nominated, USSU (University of Saskatchewan Students' Union) Teaching Award, 1997-8.
SSHRCC Research Fellowship, 2001-2004 ($27,700).
Nominated for a Canada Research Chair, 2000, by the Department of History, College of Arts and
Science, University of Saskatchewan.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
1. Dionysius. Dalhousie University -Advisory Editorial Board.
2. Diadoche, Universities of Santiago and Buenos Aires, Chile and Argentina, Honorary Editorial
Board.
3. Wenshan Review, Taipei, Taiwan, Advisory Board.
4. Executive Board of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies and editor for the
monograph series with Brill, Leiden.
5. Gnosis. Journal of Gnostic Studies, Brill, Leiden, Editorial Board.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Director, University Liberal Arts Programme, Athol Murray College, 1982-1986.
Executive of Faculty Forum, 1986-1987.
Library Committee (Chair), 1986-1988.
Forum (1986- )
University Council (1986-1995)
College of Arts and Science Faculty (1986- )
Chaplaincy Committee (Chair), 1987-89. Author of the Chaplaincy Report, A Vision for the Future, 1989.
Chaplaincy Implementation Committee, 1989-1990.
St. Thomas More Faculty Association (1988), President (1989-1990).
Grants Committee (1989- ), Chair (1990-1991).
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Pastoral Community Council, 1990.
Consultation Committee (1988-1998).
Corporation (STM) (1988- )
Student Association Faculty Rep. (1987-1990).
Editorial Board (and co- founder), The Voice, Student Newspaper (1990-1991).
Chelsea/Foundation Programme, Planning (1987-1995).
Dean (1991-1998).
Member, Board of Governors (1991-1998).
Member, University Council (1991-1998).
Consultation Committee, Chair (1991-1992).
Executive of Forum (1991-1998).
Appointments Committee (1991-1998).
Academic Planning Committee, Chair (1991-1998).
Tenure and Promotion Committee (1991-1998).
Finance Committee (Budget and Planning) (l991-1998).
Administrative Committee (1991-1998).
Improvement of Instruction Committee (1991-1998).
Evaluation of Teaching Committee (1991-1998).
College Services Committee (1991-1998).
Scholarship and Awards Committee (1991-1998).
Acting Head, Department of Economics (1991-1993); (1997-1998).
Acting Head, Department of French (1992-1993).
Academic Standards Committee (1991-1998).
Programs Committee (1991-1998).
Student Academic Affairs Committee (1991-1998).
Department Heads Committee (1991-1998).
Building Committee (1991-1998).
Deans' Group (1991-1998).
Editorial Board (and co-founder), In Medias Res, Student Newspaper (1994- ).
Acting Head, Political Studies (1994-1996).
Humanities Research Unit, Executive (Arts and Science)(1992-1993).
Windows to the East (lecture series on Orthodox, Catholic issues: Ukrainian, Greek, Romanian,
American, Canadian), Steering Committee (1994-1998).
Philosophy Department, Steering Committee (1994-1998).
Faculty Council (instituted 1996), Chair (1996-1998)
Research Committee (1996-1998).
Teaching Committee (1996-1998).
Community/Professional Service Committee (1996-1998).
Library Committee (of University Council), Chair (1997-1998).
Review Committee: Director of Libraries (1997-1998).
Numerous search committees (1991-1998)
Negotiations Committee (1995- ).
College of Graduate Studies (1986- ).
Earned D. Litt Committee, Graduate Studies (1997-).
Foundation Programme, Planning and Implementation, (1995-1998).
University Representative Council (1995-1998)
Acting Head, Religious Studies (1997-1998).
Acting Head, Philosophy (1997-1998).
Steering Committee for Classics and History (1999-2000)
Whelen Lectureship Committee (1999-2001)
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Director, Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies Program, Department of History, College of Arts
and Science, University of Saskatchewan (2000- ) (16 participating departments in 2 colleges:
Classics/ History, English, Languages and Linguistics, Art and Art History, Drama, Philosophy,
Political Studies, Music, Anthropology and Archaeology, Religious Studies).
St. Thomas More College Faculty Union, Executive (2000-2001)
Dean's Office Review, Faculty Rep. (2000-2001)
Review and Search Committee (re Treasurer, Board of Governors), Faculty Rep. (2000)
Emory University
ILA, Director/Chair (2009-15)
Medieval Studies, Executive/Steering Committee (2002-15)
ILA, Executive (2003-15)
ILA, Director of Undergraduate Studies (2003-6)
Director of Mediaeval Studies (2004-13)
ILA, Acting Director, 2005-6
ILA, Director of Graduate Studies, 2007-8
ILA Graduate Committee, 2007-8, 2009-15
ILA Faculty Student Review Committee 2009-15
ILA Undergraduate Committee 2008-15
ILA Personnel Committee 2008-15
Emory College, Governance Committee, 2008-9, 2012—15
Emory College, Shared Governance Policy Committee, 2012-2014
Various review committees (Tenure & Promotion, Graduate Studies, S, Endowed Chairs, Emory
College etc)
Conferences/Sessions Organized
Organizer (with Gretchen Schultz, Oxford College, Emory University) of the 28th Annual
Conference of the Association of Integrative Studies, entitled:
“Bridge-Building: Connecting Hearts and Minds, Arts and Sciences, Teaching and Research,
Academy and Community”, October 5-8, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, hosted by Emory University
and Oxford College of Emory University, co-hosted by the University of West Georgia.
Organizer (with Steve Strange, Philosophy) of the inaugural 12 day International Summer
Seminar of the Institute of the History of Philosophy, 4-17 June, 2009, at Emory University
(participants from 6 countries and including Emory Graduate students) on Religion and
Philosophy: Neoplatonism in the Late Ancient and Early Medieval Periods (Pagan, Jewish,
Christian, Muslim with comparative studies from the Hindu and Buddhist traditions).
Organizer (with John D. Turner) of a six year international seminar on Plato’s Parmenides and
its Heritage (2002-7), at the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion/Society of
Biblical Literature (with a one year special meeting at Tübingen University, Germany, published
in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, vol.12, 2008).
Organizer, From Africa to Atlanta: A Conference in Honor of the Work of Ivan Karp and Dana
White, Emory University, May 2011.
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Organizer, International Conference of the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies, Atlanta,
GA, June 2011.
Organizer (with Ilaria Ramelli and Monica Tobon), The XVIth International Conference of
Patristics, Oxford, August 2015 (4 sessions).
Organizer, Seeing and Knowing: Stereotypes in Daily Life. A Festschrift in Honor of Sander
Gilman, Emory University, 12-14 October, 2015.
Organizer, International Conference/Festschrift for Bobby Paul, Emory Conference Center, 29
February-March 2, 2016 (20 speakers) [with Kim Loudermilk]
Organizer (with John D. Turner) of a six year international seminar on Eros and Ascent in the
Ancient and Medieval Worlds, at the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of
Religion/Society of Biblical Literature (first meeting, Atlanta: November, 2015; second meeting:
San Antonio: November, 2016.