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Ancient and Medieval Philosophy/ Christian Theology

Modern Philosophy/ Cultural Studies

Comparative Literature

The Ironic Poet: Socrates’ Account of Poetry in Books II, III, and X of The Republic

The Vicious, or Intemperate, Man and His Incurability in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics,  Book VII

Understanding Jesus through Suffering in the Gospel of Matthew

Response to Dr. William Babcock’s “Of Weights and Millstones: Augustine on Love”

"Through the humanity of Thy Son”: Christology in Augustine’s Confessions

Bending the Spirit of the Soldier: Aquinas’ Martial Metaphor of Grace and Human Free-Will

Artist as Metaphysician in Hegel’s and Nietzsche’s Aesthetics

Journal: Hegel, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Homi Bhabha: The Process of Creating Culture from the Interstitial, Hybrid Perspective

Love and Evil

Love for the Ordinary Death as Source of the Poetic Imagination

Morality Play Plot Summaries: The Castle of Perseverance, Mankind, Everyman

The Novel

The Palimpsest Narrator: The Hybridized Nature of the Inadequate Storyteller in Devi’s “Pterodactyl” and Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh

Three Poets: Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium,” and Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar.”

Greek Epic/ Roman History

Dante Alighieri

Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare

Towards Religious Mystery: Man’s Duplicitous Nature and Development of Religion in The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid

Journal: Greek Epic

Tacitus’ Dual Criticism of Roman Imperialism and Briton Disorder in Calgacus’ Speech, Chapters 30-32 in Agricola

Hindrance or Helpmate: Speaking Woman as Guide in the Divine Comedy

Duality of Meaning in The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale

Bottom’s Fluid Ontology Towards a Better Understanding of Man in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

John Milton

S. T. Coleridge

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Conflict of Platonic and Ciceronian Ethoi in the Seduction of Eve in Paradise Lost

Milton’s Freely Obedient God as Model of Christian Liberty

Sonnet XXIII “Methought I saw my late espoused Saint”: Marriage and God

An Epistemological Crisis in a Smug World: The Problem of Perception in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

 

 

 

The Augustinian Conversion of Fallen Man’s Cor as the Development of the Russian Hero: The Idiot’s Myshkin and The Brothers Karamazov’s Alyosha

 

Joseph Conrad

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wallace Stevens

The Power of a Woman’s Love: Lena in Victory

Robin’s Initiation into Spiritual Liberty: Sin as Necessary Crucible of the Soul towards Self-Perfection in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux"

The Reluctant Beloved in Wallace Stevens’ “Sunday Morning”

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