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English and Philosophy

Dr. Robert Watkins

Assistant Professor of English

Dr. Walkins is available for Zoom and in-person presentations.

 

Specialties:

• Composition & Rhetoric

• Professional Communication

• Technical Writing

Presentations:

Comics in the Classroom

Resume Workshop

What is Technical and Professional Writing?

 

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Evan Rodriguez

Dr. Evan Rodriguez

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Dr. Rodriguez is available for Zoom and in-person presentations.

 

Specialties:

• The History of Philosophy

• Greek and Roman Philosophy

• Theory of Knowledge

• Philosophic Methodology

Presentations:

You Can Chain My Leg But Not Me: The Ancient Stoics on the Art of Living

Who Are We? Theories of the Self East and West

Latin American Philosophy

 

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Alan Johnson

Dr. Alan Johnson

Professor of English, Interim Director of Graduate Studies

Dr. Johnson is available for Zoom and in-person presentations.

 

Specialties:

  • Post Colonial Literature

  • India and Literature

Presentations:

The poetic monologue in literature, written and spoken.

Why world literature matters: Poems in English and other languages

We have always been global: How stories from around the world borrow from each other

Understanding Hindi (Bollywood) film

Ching-E (Nobel) Ang

Dr. Nobel Ang

Associate Lecturer in Philosophy

Dr. Ang is available for Zoom and in-person presentations. 

 

Specialties:

  • Existentialism

  • Moral Psychology

  • Ethics

Presentations:

Is free will and freedom of choice an illusion?

What's love got to do with it?

 

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Dr. James Skidmore

Associate Professor of Philosophy; Department Vice Chair; Director of Philosophy

Dr. Skidmore is available for Zoom and in-person presentations.

Specialties:

  • Ethical Theory

  • Applied Ethics

  • Political Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Law

Presentations:

Dr. Skidmore will create a presentation based on one of his specialties.

Dr. Roger Schmidt

Professor of English

Dr. Schmidt is available for in-person presentations.

Specialties:

  • 18th-century British Literature

  • Jane Austen

  • Literature in Translation

  • Calligraphy

Presentations:

History of the Book

Jane Austen's World

History of Writing Technologies

 

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