Annette Allen

Annette Allen is Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of the Humanities Doctoral Program and Masters in Humanities and Civic Leadership. Former Dean of Salem College in North Carolina, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1988. Her dissertation, entitled: A Phenomenological Exploration of Time, Self, and Narrative in the Major Novels of Virginia Woolf, led to further research on Virginia Woolf. She has published essays on Woolf and poets, Molly Peacock, Sylvia Plath, and Mary Oliver. Her poetry has been published widely in magazines, such as Southern Poetry Review, Boulevard, and Poetry East. Allen is the recipient of the Witte Award for her poetry collection, Country of Light (1996) and she has received three state arts council awards, and two NEH summer fellowships. A MacDowell Colony Fellow, Allen received the Guy Award for a forthcoming book, What Vanishes, and recently a Kentucky Arts Council Poetry Fellowship. Her research and teaching interests are Modernism, Virginia Woolf, creativity and madness, poetry, and the literary imagination of the American South.

Mark E. Blum

Mark E. Blum is Professor of History in the Department of History. He received his B.A. in Government at Franklin and Marshall College in 1959, his M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania in 1970. He was a Swiss-American Fellow at the University of Zurich in 1959-1960, and a lay-analytical candidate at the Carl Gustav Jung Institute in the same years. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Vienna n l965. He was a Fellow at Carl Rogers’ Center for Studies of the Person in La Jolla, California in 1970-71. His teaching career began at the Moore College of Art in the Department of Humanities in 1962. He taught Humanities at San Francisco State University from 1966 through 1968 as an Assistant Professor, offering the Department of Humanities courses in Contemporary Culture. Since coming to the University of Louisville in 1976 he has taught history and interdisciplinary studies. His publications include The Austro-Marxists, 1890-1918: A Psychobiographical Study and other biographical studies which employ stylistic, phenomenological, and psychodynamic perspectives. His current work focuses upon the historical logics of individuals and the historical-logical narrative norms in Western nations. Web page.

Thomas B. Byers

Thomas B. Byers (Tom) is Professor of English, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Director of the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society. He earned the Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Brown University in 1971, and the Ph. D. from the University of Iowa in 1979. He joined the faculty of the University of Louisville in 1980. His book, What I Cannot Say: Self, Word, and World in Whitman, Stevens, and Merwin , was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1989. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and has been a Fulbright Senior Lecturer/Researcher in Denmark and a visiting professor at Sao Paulo State University in Brazil. He is the recipient of the Margaret Church Award from Modern Fiction Studies , and of the University's Distinguished Teaching Award and the Red Apple Award from the Alumni Association. His current research interests are fathers in recent Hollywood film, postmodernism in literature and film, and death in American literature.

Linda Gigante

Linda Maria Gigante teaches courses in Greek and Roman art in the Department of Fine Arts, as well as courses in Greek and Roman culture in the Humanities Division (including Humanistic Studies I for the Ph.D. program). Professor Gigante's primary research is on the collection of Roman funerary artifacts in the Speed Art Museum, and she has presented several papers on this material at archaeology and art history conferences. The funerary inscriptions have been published on the website of the US Epigraphy Project and an article on the inscriptions will appear in the 2008 volume of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. This fall Professor Gigante will participate in the Archaeological Institute of America's Lecture Program and will speak about Roman slaves and freedmen at the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia.
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Karen Gray

Karen Gray graduated Phi Beta Kappa from DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. She earned her MA in Classics and her Ph.D. in Humanities with a specialization in Classical Languages, Literature, and Civilization from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, in 1974. From 1971 to 1986 she was a lecturer in English at Indiana University Southeast, and from 1981 to the present she has taught at the University of Louisville. In 1996, she became the Undergraduate Advisor in the Division of Humanities where she is now Resource Advising Professor and recently was awarded the Provost's Award for Exemplary Advising . She has published articles on John H. Whallen, theatre entrepreneur and Democratic boss in Louisville in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. Her current academic areas of interest are Greek and Roman tragedy and Greek mythology.

Carl R. Hausman

Carl R. Haysman teaches graduate courses in Philosophy and Humanities. He received his BA from the University of Louisville, his MA from Duke University, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. The majority of Hausman's professional career has been spent at the Pennsylvania State University, where he served as Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department. He has also served in the following capacities: Executive Director of the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity, President of the Charles S. Peirce Society, and founding editor of the New Series of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. He was selected as Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, and in 2002, he was given the honor of Alumni Fellowship Award for Arts & Sciences at the University of Louisville in recognition for his teaching and scholarly achievements. Hausman is best known for his contribution to the study of Charles S. Peirce, philosophy of creativity, and the study of metaphor. Several of his books include: A Discourse on Novelty and Creation , Metaphor and Art , The Creativity Question , and Charles S. Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy . Webpage.

Alan Leidner

teaches in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and the Humanities Division, where he has offered courses on Early Modern Culture, The Age of Goethe, Nineteenth-Century Novel, Franz Kafka, Weimar Culture, Modern Culture, and th e European Fairy Tale. He is the author of The Impatient Muse: Germany and the Sturm und Drang (UNC Press, 1994), co-author (with Karin Wurst) of Unpopular Virtues: The Scholarly Reception of J. M. R. Lenz (Camden House, 1999), and the editor of volume 14 ( Sturm und Drang ) of The German Library (Continuum, 1992). Professor Leidner is the review editor of Colloquia Germanica . Web page.

Mary Makris

earned her PhD from Rutgers, The State University in Spanish. She holds the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition, she teaches in the Humanities Division. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and have consistently focused on the interrelations between literature and the arts. She has published articles on 20th Century Spanish poetry and painting, theater and film. Her current projects focus on the re-presentations of Guernica/Guernica (that is, the 1937 bombing and Picasso's mural) and on Rafael Alberti's "lyricographies," renderings of his poems as drawings with the verse incorporated as part of the design

D. A. Masolo

is a native of Kenya and teaches philosophy at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, U. S. A. Previously he has taught philosophy at the University of Nairobi, Kenya and at other several American Universities and Colleges. He has published widely on African philosophy and philosophy and cultures. His latest work includes African Philosophy in Search of Identity (Indiana University Press, 1994) and African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry , (Indiana University Press 2000), a collection of essays co-edited with Ivan Karp of Emory University in Atlanta, U. S. A., and numerous essays in journals and book chapters. He is the current President of the Society for African Philosophy in North America (SAPINA). Web page.

Robert N. St. Clair

is a professor of linguistics in the Department of Communication and in the Humanities Division. He received his doctorate in theoretical linguistics at the University of Kansas. One of his specialties is intercultural communication. He did his doctorate on the Eskimo language and has worked closely with six other tribal nations. He has done research on Polynesian cultures, Asian cultures, and Hispanic traditions. His research is aimed at developing an interdisciplinary theory of culture as a social system. He is the Executive Director of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS), and the editor of Intercultural Communication Studies (ICS). He is also the Director of the Institute for Intercultural Communication at the University of Louisville. Dr. St. Clair also teaches at the Xinjiang Normal University in Urumuqi, the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China.  Professor St. Clair teaches courses on Cultural Metaphors (Hum 671), Theories of Culture (Hum 682), Structural Hermeneutics (Eng 682), the Structure of Modern American Grammar (Eng 522) and Linguistics for Teachers of English (Eng 523). His most recent books include The Major Metaphors of European Thought (2000), Social Dimensions across Culture s (2004), Disparities among Transcultural Values (2004), Literary Structures, Character Development, and Dramaturgical Scenarios in Framing the Category Novel (2004), and . Metáfora, Metonimia, e a visualização de rogais socias (2004). He is currently editing a book on Cultural Metaphors and Cultural Space (2007).  His website on structural epistemology can be found at www.louisville.edu/~rnstcl01.

Mary Ann Stenger

Professor of Humanities, earned her B.A. in Religion from Lawrence University in l969 and received a Teaching Research Fellowship from the School of Religion at the University of Iowa. Following completion of her Ph.D. in Religion from the University of Iwa in l977, she began teaching in Religious Studies at the University of Louisville. She is co-author of Dialogues of Paul Tillich Mercer University Press, 2002) and of over 25 journal articles and book chapters on the theology of Paul Tillich, religious pluralism and feminist theology. She participates in international meetings of Tillich scholars, co-chairs a program unit on Tillich's thought for the American Academy of Religion and chairs the project to publish in English the Collected Works of Paul Tillich. Other current research focuses on integrating feminist and pluralist philosophies of religion. She is a Distinguished Honors Faculty Fellow 2001 - present) and received the Red Apple Award for Teaching from the University of Louisville Alumni Association (2003). She also received a Distinguished Service Award from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2002. Graduate courses include HUM 610 Methods and Theories in the Study of Religion, HUM 612 Tillich: Religion and Culture, HUM 613 Comparative Religions (focus on Buddhism and Christiantiy), and a new, broader HUM 612 Religion and Culture.

Osborne P. Wiggins

is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy. He is also an Associate in Epidemiology and Clinical Investigation Science. He received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. In 1998 he received the Margrit Egner award for his contributions to phenomenological psychiatry. With his regular co-author, Michael Alan Schwartz, M.D., he publishes in the area of philosophy and psychiatry.

Elaine Wise

Phi Beta Kappa at Agnes Scott College and Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Indiana University, is Chair of the Division of Humanities and teaches courses in both the Division of Humanities and the Department of English. Her areas of specialization are Chaucer, Shakespeare, Medieval Culture, and Interdisciplinary Theory in the Arts and Humanities. Her current research is focused on models of female friendship in medieval literature. She is also investigating the archived papers of Louise Pennington Weiller, a Louisville radio personality, writer, and a founder of the Louisville Ballet (1904-1996).