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CURRICULUM VITAE
Kathleen Marie Higgins
Contact Information: The University of Texas at Austin Department of Philosophy2210 Speedway, Stop C3500Austin, TX 78712-1737(512) 471-5564 [email protected]
EducationPh.D. (philosophy, modern studies concentration), Yale University, December 1982M. Phil. (philosophy), Yale University, 1979M.A. (philosophy), Yale University, 1978B.A. (music), University of Missouri - Kansas City, 1977Saint Mary College, Leavenworth, Kansas, 1972-1973
Areas of Specialization: Aesthetics, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Emotion
Areas of Competence: Ethics, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Literature, Feminism, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Honors and Awards
American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize (for The Music between Us), 2013.
College Research Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013Rappaport-King Scholar Mentor Award, College of Liberal Arts, The University of
Texas at Austin, 1997, 2011Dean’s Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2004Distinguished Teacher in Undergraduate Course Award, Philosophy Department, The
University of Texas at Austin, 2003.Alumni Achievement Award, Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri, Kansas
City, 1999University Research Institute Faculty Research Award, The University of Texas at
Austin, Fall 1994, Fall 2000Resident Scholar, The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center,
October 1993Nietzsche's “Zarathustra” named one of the Outstanding Academic Books of l988-89
by ChoiceUniversity Research Institute Summer Research Award, The University of Texas at
Austin, 1985
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BOOKS
Original Books
Nietzsche's “Zarathustra” (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987); revised edition (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2010).
The Music of Our Lives (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991); reissued (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2011).
A Short History of Philosophy, co-authored with Robert C. Solomon (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Slovenian translation: Kratka Zgodovina Filozofije, trans. Zdenka Erbenznik, Seta Knop, and Katarina Jerin (Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicisticno sredisce, 1998); Polish translation: Krótka Historia Filozofii, trans. Natalia Szczucka-Kubisz (Warsaw: Prószynski i S-ka, 1997). Dutch translation: Een Andere Geschiedenis van de Filosofie, trans.Ben Schomakers, (Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek, 1999). Turkish translation: Felsefenin Kisa Tarihi, translated by Mustafa Topal (Istanbul: Iletisim, 2013).
A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy, co-authored with Robert C. Solomon (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). Spanish translation: Breve historia de la philosophia, trans. Ángel Rivero (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1999). German translation: Eine kurze Geschichte der Philosophie , trans. Sonja Hauser (München: Piper, 2000). Portuguese translation: Paixão Pelo Saber: Uma Breve História da Filosofia , trans. Maria Luiza X. de A. Borges (Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2001); Dutch translation: Filosofie voor Nieuwsgierigen: De Geschiedenis van de Filosofie, trans. Ronald Kuil (Kampen: Agora, 2004); Korean translation, Jakeuneyagi Publishing Company, 2006; Japanese translation, 2004; Greek translation forthcoming; Chinese translation, 2007; Persian translation, 2009.
Comic Relief: Nietzsche's “Gay Science” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
What Nietzsche Really Said, co-authored with Robert C. Solomon (New York: Schocken Books, 2000). Korean translation by Prunsoop Publishing Company, 2001.
The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2012).
Edited Books
Reading Nietzsche, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (New York, Oxford University Press, 1988). The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1991).
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From Africa to Zen: An Invitation to World Philosophy, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (Lanham, Maryland: Roman and Littlefield, 1993); second edition, 2003; Chinese translation, 2004.
Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. VI: The Age of German Idealism, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (London: Routledge, 1993). Chinese translation, 2016.
The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, co-edited with Bernd Magnus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Chinese translation forthcoming.
A Companion to Aesthetics, co-edited with Stephen Davies, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker, and David Cooper, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2009).
Passion, Death, and Spirituality: The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon, co-edited with David Sherman, Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 1 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012).
Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, co-edited with Shakti Maira and Sonia Sikka, Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017).
New Editions
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Clancy Martin, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005).
Textbooks
Thirteen Questions In Ethics, co-edited with Lee Bowie and Meredith Michaels (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992; Thirteen Questions in Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2nd edition (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998).
World Philosophy: A Text with Readings, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995).
Aesthetics in Perspective (edited) (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1996).
The Big Questions, co-authored with Robert C. Solomon, 8th ed. (Belmont, Ca.: Wadsworth, 2010); 9th ed., 2014.
Introducing Philosophy, co-authored with Robert C. Solomon and Clancy Martin, 10th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); 11th edition, 2016.
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My books have now been translated into 11 languages: Chinese, Dutch, German, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish.
VIDEO LECTURES
"World Philosophy," lecture series, The Teaching Company, 2001.
"The Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche," lecture series (with Robert C. Solomon), The Teaching Company, 1999.
Guest Lectures on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche for Darren Staloff and Michael Sugrue, “The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition” lecture series, The Teaching Company, 1999.
ARTICLES
“Love and Literature,” The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Love, ed. Christopher Grau and Aaron Smuts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). URL: (http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199395729.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199395729-e-32?rskey=I3OESk&result=9. “Global Aesthetics -- What Can We Do?” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (2017). [forthcoming]
“Confucius’ Opposition to the ‘New Music,’” Dao 16.3 (September 2017). https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11712-017-9558-6?author_access_token=3LR6YnY_Ihu0Fu6GMG5y8_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY4gxBC-vMj8rPk2HMNl2DSUDuhj7cUBoiEqTRtHQevocMkHnUwgY5Z2IGPYynKDJ0xOf81tf4t9VNLGJ2NbxdFkq0wJcTamRZ7WVwIqcoWjyA%3D%3D. “Post-Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed,” Nature 540:7631 (1 December 2015): 9; republished in Scientific American, December 5, 2016.
“Forma Literaria y Crisis de la Madurez en Así Habló Zaratustra (Literary Form and Midlife Crisis in Thus Spoke Zarathustra),” Estudios Nietzsche 16 (2016): 55-71. (Spanish only) “Putting the Dead in their Place,” in Philosophy of Place: A Cross -Cultural Dialogue, ed. Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Herschock (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2017). [forthcoming]
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“Introduction,” with Shakti Maira and Sonia Sikka, Artistic Visions and the promise of Beauty: Cross-cultural Perspectives, co-edited with Shakti Maira and Sonia Sikka (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017), 1-11.
“Beauty and the Sense of Life,” in Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Kathleen Higgins, Shakti Maira and Sonia Sikka (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017), 151-165.
“Xunzi and Solomon on Aesthetic Responses to Loss,” Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36:2 (2016): 20-30.
“Positioning and Discernment: A Comment on Monique Roelofs’s The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic,” Contemporary Aesthetics 14 (2016). URL: http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=739
“Living with Solomon Living with Nietzsche: A Reply to Tubert and Soll,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46:3 (2015): 451-463.
“Moral Equivalents,” in Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence, ed. Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Hershock (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015), pp. 185-197.
“Festivals of Recognition: Nietzsche’s Idealized Communities,” in Nietzsche and Community, ed. Julian Young (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 77-92.
“Post-Truth Pluralism: The Unlikely Political Wisdom of Friedrich Nietzsche,” Breakthrough Journal 3 (Winter 2013): 101-106.
“Danto: On the Use and Disadvantage of Hegel for Art,” co-authored with Robert C. Solomon, in The Philosophy of Arthur C. Danto, ed. Randall E. Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn, The Library of Living Philosophers Series, Vol.33 (Chicago: Open Court, 2013), pp. 645-663.
“Love and Death,” in On Emotions: Philosophical Essays, ed. John Deigh (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 159-178. “La lecture de l’oracle (Oracular Reading),” in “L’art de bien lire”, Nietzsche et la philologie, ed. Jean-François Balaudé and Patrick Wotling (Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2012), pp. 241-252. (French only)
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“Loyalty from a Confucian Perspective,” in Loyalty, ed. Sanford Levinson and Paul Woodruff, Nomos LIV (New York: New York University Press, 2012), pp. 22-38.
“Introduction,” in Passion, Death, and Spirituality: The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon, co-edited with David Sherman (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012), ix-xv.
“Bob on Meaning in Life and Death,” in Passion, Death, and Spirituality: The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon, co-edited with David Sherman (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012), 259-267.
“Biology and Culture in Musical Emotions,” Emotion Review, Special Issue on Social-Constructionist Approaches to Emotion, ed. James Averill, 4:3 (2012): 273-282. “Introduction: Robert C. Solomon and the Spiritual Passions” in Special Issue on Robert C. Solomon and the Spiritual Passions, Guest Editor: Kathleen M. Higgins, Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology, and Ethics, 50 (June 2011): 239-245.
“Visual Music and Synaesthesia,” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, ed. Andrew Kania and Theodore Gracyk (New York: Routledge, 2010), 480-491.
“Refined Emotions in Aesthetic Experience: A Cross-Cultural Comparison,” in Aesthetic Experience, ed. Richard Shusterman and Adele Tomlin, Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2008), 106-126.
“Leadership through Music,” in Leadership at the Crossroads, ed. Joanne B. Ciulla, in 3 vols., Vol. 3: Leadership and the Humanities (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2008), 151-171.
“Suffering in Nietzsche’s Philosophy,” in Reading Nietzsche at the Margins, ed. Steven V. Hicks and Alan Rosenberg (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008), 59-72.
“Musical Education for Peace,” in Educations and Their Purposes: A Conversation among Cultures, ed. Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Hershock (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008), 389-404.
“Zarathustra’s Midlife Crisis: A Response to Gooding-Williams,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 34 (2007): 47-56.
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“An Alchemy of Emotion: Rasa and Aesthetic Breakthroughs,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Special Issue: Global Theories of the Arts and the Aesthetic 65 (2007): 43-54.
“The Cognitive and Appreciative Import of Musical Universals,” Revue Internationale de Philosophie 60/238 (December 2006): 487-503.
“Double-Consciousness and Second Sight," in Critical Affinities: Reflections on the Convergence of Nietzsche and African-American Thought, ed. Todd Franklin and Jacqueline Scott (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006), 51-73.
“Nietzsche, Empty Names, and Individuality,” International Studies in Philosophy38/3 (2006): 117-130.
“Negative Virtues: Zhuangzi’s Wuwei,” Virtue Ethics: Old and New, ed. Stephen Gardiner (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), 125-141.
“Rebaptizing Our Evil: Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Values,” in The Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (London: Blackwell, 2005), 404-418.
“Nietzsche and the Mystery of the Ass,” in A Nietzschean Bestiary: Animality Beyond Docile and Brutal, ed. Ralph R. Acampora and Christa Davis Acampora (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), 100-118.
“Music or the Mistaken Life,” International Studies in Philosophy 35:3 (2003): 117-130.
"Television, Realism, and the Distortion of Time," in Television: Aesthetic Reflections, ed. Ruth Lorand (New York: Peter Lang, 2002), 107-126.
“Musical Synesthesia :Why We Feel Like Dancing" in Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics, ed. Grazia Marchianò and Raffaele Milani (Turin: Trauben/ Casalini Libri, 2001), 319-337.
"Chinese Music and the Family," in An Introduction to Chinese Culture Through the Family, ed. Howard Giskin and Bettye Walsh (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), 107-122.
“Beyond Irony: Nietzsche in the Twenty-First Century,” International Studies in Philosophy XXXIII:3 (Fall 2001): 37-51.
“Beauty and Its Kitsch Competitors,” in Beauty Matters, ed. Peg Zeglin Brand (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), 87-111; in abridged form as Publications
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“Beauty, Kitsch, and Glamour,” in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon, 4th ed. (Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2000), 777-783.
"Mass Appeal," in Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999): 197-205.
"Death and the Skeleton," in Death and Philosophy, ed. J. E. Malpas and Robert C. Solomon (London: Routledge, 1998), 39-49; in abridged form in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon, 4th ed. (Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2000), 501-504.
(with Joel Rudinow) "Introduction," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Special Issue on Popular Culture, 57/2 (Spring 1999): 1-9.
"Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Temporality and Temperament," in Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator, ed. Christopher Janaway (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), 151-177.
"Music and the Ten Thousand Things: Musical Metaphysics in China," Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference on Transcultural Aesthetics, ed. Eugenio Benitez (on disk, ISBN 0-646-28504-1, 1997), 81-95.
"Waves of Uncountable Laughter," in Nietzsche 's Futures, ed. John Lippitt (London: Macmillan, 1997), 82-98.
"Musical Idiosyncrasy and Perspectival Listening," in Music and Meaning, ed. Jenefer Robinson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), 83-102.
"The Whip Recalled," Journal of Nietzsche Studies 12 (Autumn 1996):1-18.
"Whatever Happened to Beauty? -- A Response to Danto," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 54/3 (Summer 1996): 281-284; republished in Beauty, ed. Dave Breech (Cambridge, MA: MT Press, 2009): 31-35.
"Bad Faith and Kitsch as Models for Self-Deception," in Self and Deception: A Conversation in Comparative Philosophy, ed. Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), pp. 123-141.
"Gender in ‘The Gay Science,’" Philosophy and Literature 19/2 (October 1995): 227-247; also in Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), pp. 130-151.
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"Nietzsche's Nursery Rhymes," Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 21/3 (Fall 1995): 397-417.
“‘On the Genealogy of Morals’ -- Nietzsche's Gift," in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's “Genealogy of Morals,” ed. Richard Schacht (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 49-62.
"The Good, the True, and the Beautiful," in Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk about Their Calling, ed. David Karnos and Robert Shoemaker (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 223-225.
"Atomism, Art and Arthur: Danto's Hegelian Turn" (with Robert C. Solomon), in Danto and His Critics, ed. Mark Rollins (London: Basil Blackwell, 1993), pp. 107-126. Japanese translation in Bigaku Kenkyu (publication of Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University) 1 (2001): 69-94.
“Arthur Schopenhauer," in Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. VI: The Age of German Idealism, ed. Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen Higgins (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 330-362.
"How Do I Love Thee? Let's Redefine a Term (A Response to Predrag Cicovacki)," Journal of Social Philosophy, 24/3 (Winter 1993): 105-111.
“Zarathustra’ Is a Comic Book," Philosophy and Literature, 16/1 (April 1992): 1-14.
“Apollo, Music, and Cross-Cultural Rationality," Philosophy East and West 42/4 (October 1992): 623-641.
"Sweet Kitsch," in The Philosophy of the Visual Arts, ed. Philip Alperson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 568-581.
“The Music of Our Lives," in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon, 2nd ed. (Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace, 1992), pp. 671-675; 3rd ed. (Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace, 1995), pp. 734-738; Aesthetics, ed. Susan Feagin and Patrick Maynard (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 141-148.
"Nietzsche and Postmodern Subjectivity," in Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra, ed. Clayton Koelb (Albany: State University of New York Press, l990), pp. 189-215.
“Music, Muzak Everywhere: Is Anybody Really Listening?" in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon, 1st ed., (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), 660-670.Publications
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“‘Zarathustra’ IV and Apuleius: Who Is Zarathustra's Ass?", International Studies in Philosophy, XX/3, (1988): 29-53; also in Nietzsche: Critical Assessments, ed. Daniel W. Conway with Peter S. Groff, Vol. I: Incipit Zarathustra/Incipit Tragoedia: Art, Music, Representation, and Style (New York: Routledge, 1998), 166-189.
“Music, Muzak Everywhere: Is Anybody Really Listening?" in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon, 1st ed., (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), 660-670.
"Reading ‘Zarathustra,’" in Reading Nietzsche, ed. Higgins and Solomon (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 132-151.
"Zarathustra's Stammer as a Way of Life: Comment on Robert Gooding-Williams' ‘The Drama of Nietzsche's “Zarathustra”’: Intention, Repetition, and Prelude.'" International Studies in Philosophy, XX/2 (Summer 1988): 117-122.
"Nietzsche's View of Philosophical Style," International Studies in Philosophy XVIII/2 (Summer 1986): 67-81.
"Nietzsche on Music," Journal of the History of Ideas, XLVII/4 (October-December 1986): 663-672; also in Essays on the History of Aesthetics, ed. Peter Kivy (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1992), 367-376.
"The Night Song's Answer," International Studies in Philosophy XVII/2 (Summer 1985): 33-50.
"Music in Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy," in International Philosophical Quarterly, XX/4 (December 1980): 432-451.
FOREWORDS, NOTES, ABSTRACTS, BRIEF REPLIES
“Memorial Minutes: Peter Kivy Remembered,” American Society for Aesthetics website, posted June 19, 2017. URL: http://aesthetics-online.org/?page=PeterKivyKH.
“Foreword,” to Eiichi Tosaki, Squared Grooves — Prelude to Visualised Rhythm in the Work of Piet Mondrian (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017). [forthcoming]
“Social Dynamics and Mixed Emotions,” Emotion Review, Special Issue on Social-Constructionist Approaches to Emotion, ed. James Averill, 4:3 (2012): 289-290.
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“Obituary: Peter Goldie,” in Emotion Researcher 26:3 (Fall 2011): 13-14.
“Afterword,” to "Atomism, Art and Arthur: Danto's Hegelian Turn" (with Robert C. Solomon), in Danto and His Critics, ed. Mark Rollins, 2d ed. (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2012): 189-193.
“Preface to the Second Edition,” Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life, by Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). [forthcoming]
“Foreword” to Mitchell D. Ginsberg, Calm, Clear, and Loving: Soothing the Distressed Mind, Healing the Wounded Heart (San Diego: Wisdom Moon Books, 2010), xv-xviii.
ENCYCLOPEDIA, COMPANION, AND DICTIONARY ENTRIES
“Superman (Overman),” in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert Fastiggi, in 4 vols., Vol. 4 (Detroit: Gale, 2013), pp. 1492-1493.
“Esel,” in Nietzsche-Lexicon, ed. Christian Niemeyer (Darmstadt: WBG, 2009), pp. 91-92.
“Visual Music and Synaesthesia,” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, ed. Andrew Kania and Theodore Gracyk (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 480-491.
"Comparative Aesthetics," in The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, ed. Jerrold Levinson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 679-692.
“Kitsch,” in A Companion to Aesthetics, ed. Stephen Davies, et al., 2nd ed. (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2009), pp. 393-396.
“Universals in Art,” in A Companion to Aesthetics, ed. Stephen Davies, et al., 2nd ed. (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2009), pp. 581-584.
“Rasa,” in A Companion to Aesthetics, ed. Stephen Davies,.et al., 2nd ed. (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2009), 492-494.
“Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm: Nietzsche’s Aesthetics: Nietzsche’s Literary Style,” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly, in 4 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), Volume 3, pp. 361-364.
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"Emotions: Historical Overview" (with Robert C. Solomon), in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly, in 4 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), Volume 2, pp. 102-105.
"Friedrich Nietzsche," in Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, ed. J. J. Chambliss (New York: Garland Publishing, 1996), 433-435.
"Arthur Schopenhauer," in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 717-718.
"Psychoanalysis and Art," in A Companion to Aesthetics, ed. David Cooper (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992), 347-353; in Companion to Aesthetics, ed. Stephen Davies, et al., 2nd ed. (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2009), 484-488.
"Schopenhauer," in A Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Thomas Mauntner (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 386-387.
"Nietzsche," in A Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Thomas Mauntner (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 292-293.
BOOK REVIEWS
In Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Review of Metaphysics, The Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy East and West, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Dialogue, Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie, Teaching Philosophy, Kritikon Litterarum, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Ethics, Philosophy in Review, and Society for American Music Bulletin
JOURNAL INTERVIEWS
“Eros, Art, Wisdom: Kathleen Higgins interviewed by Richard Marshall,” 3:AM Magazine (online), February 11, 2013. URL: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/eros-art-wisdom/.
Interview on music, niin & näin (one hand and other hand), published by the Society for European Philosophy, 2015. URL: http://netn.fi/artikkeli/questions-on-music-for-five-experts-part-threeTalks Delivered
CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
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International Society for Research on the Emotions, St. Louis (2017); Music, Business, Peace Summit, Indiana University Bloomington (2017); Truth and Beauty: A Conference in Honor of Karsten Harries; American Academy of Religion (2016); 20th International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul (2016); Eleventh East-West Philosophers’ Conference, Honolulu (2016); Bernd Magnus Memorial Conference, University of California, Riverside (2016); “Music and Philosophy in Early China” Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, (2015); 21st International Conference, Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Scarborough (2015); International Society for Research on the Emotions, Geneva (2015); Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Northern Arizona University (2015); Dubrovnik Conference in Philosophy of Art (2015); University of Texas at Austin Graduate Conference in Philosophy (2014); Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Group, Kings College London (2014); University of Kentucky 17th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: “Women and Minorities in the Philosophical Tradition” (2014); International Society for Research on the Emotions, Berkeley (2013); International Congress of Aesthetics, Krakow (2013); Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Singapore (2013); Keynote Address, Uehiro Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Hawai’i-Manoa (2013); “Celebrating the Work of Peter Goldie" Conference, University of Manchester (2012); “The End of Art and the Promise of Beauty” Conference, India Habitat Centre (2012); International Society for Research on the Emotions, Kyoto (2011); Tenth East-West Philosophers’ Conference: “Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence” (2011); “Art, Beauty, and Beyond” Conference, The University of Texas at Austin (2010); International Congress of Aesthetics, Beijing (2010); “Politics, Criticism and the Arts: Musical Performance as Political Practice,” Vanderbilt University (2010); Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Asilomar (2009); Duquesne University Graduate Student Conference on “Why Nietzsche? Which Nietzsche?” (2009); Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (2008); “Nietzsche and the Philosophical Life,” Texas Christian University (2008); Memorial Conference in Honor of Robert C. Solomon, The University of Auckland (2007); International Society for Research on the Emotions, Sunshine Coast, Australia (2007); “Emotion, Self, and Identity,” University of Aarhus (2007); “Conflict, Communication, and Emotion,” sponsored by SophiaEuropa, MetaNexus, University of Aarhus (2007); Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (2006); International Symposium on “Confucianism in the Postmodern Era,” Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing (2006); International Colloquium on “The Art of Reading Well”: Nietzsche and Philology, Reims/Paris X-Nanterre (2006); “Nietzsche on Art and Morality” Conference, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and the Group of Research on European Thought, Department of Philosophy, the University of Helsinki (2005); "Emotions, Others and the Self” Conference, Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland (2005); International Society for Research on the Emotions, Bari, Italy (2005);
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Ninth East-West Philosophers’ Conference, “Educations and Their Purposes: A Philosophical Dialogue among Cultures,” East-West Center, Honolulu (2005);"Deutsch-Amerikanishes Gespräch über Nietzsche," Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Weimar, (2004); XVI International Congress of Aesthetics: Changes in Aesthetics, Rio De Janeiro (2004); 2nd Annual Student Philosophy Conference: Philosophy in the Land of Enchantment, University of New Mexico (2004); Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, State University of New York-Oneonta (2004); “Designing for Civic Environmentalism” Conference, The University of Texas at Austin (2003); Virtue Ethics Old and New” Conference, Canterbury University, Christchurch (2002); "Nietzsche: Philosophical Influences and Philosophical Legacies" Conference, University of Texas at Austin (2001); Conference on “Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics,” Bologna (2000); American Political Science Association, Washington, D. C. (2000); International Society for Research in the Emotions, Quebec City (2000); “Civilizational Perspectives of Intergenerationally Responsive and Responsible Self,” Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations, Kyoto (2000); “Nietzsche and Transvaluation” Conference, Santa Clara University' (2000); Whangaroa Summer Conference on Work, New Zealand (1999); American Philosophical Association (1992; 1998; 2011); Third International Research Conference in Asian and Comparative Philosophy, East-West Center (1998); Pacific Rim Conference on Transcultural Aesthetics, University of Sydney (1997); Humanities Research Centre Conference on Emotion in Social Life and Social Theory, The Australian National University (1997); Asian Studies Development Conference, DuPage Community College (1997); Hungarian Association for Aesthetics meeting, Budapest (1996); Whangaroa Summer Conference on Death, New Zealand (1996); Friedrich Nietzsche Society meeting, University of Hertfordshire (1995); "Nietzsche at 150" Conference, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1994); "Music and Meaning" Conference, University of Cincinnati (1993); Philosophy East & West Conferences (1992, 1991); North American Nietzsche Society (2005, 2002, 2000, 1988, 1987, 1985, 1984, 1981); "Philosophy and the Human Future," St. John's College, Cambridge University (1989); American Society for Aesthetics (2016, 2015, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1988); International Association for Philosophy and Literature (1987); Australasian Association of Philosophy (2008, 1992, 1991, 1988); 11th Interamerican Congress of Philosophy, Guadalajara (1985); Interface '85, 9th Annual Humanities and Technology Conference; The Nietzsche Society (1985); Regional Symposium on Neo-Confucian Philosophy, Columbia University (1978).
Talks Delivered
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
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Shanghai Conservatory of Music (2017); City University of Hong Kong; Lingnan University; Yale-NUS College; Linfield College, McMinnville, OR (2015 Walter Powell-Linfield College Lectures); Yale University; University of Gothenburg; KU Leuven; University of Houston; St. Norbert College; California State University Fullerton; Texas Lutheran University; Utah Valley University; Colby College; Hampden-Sydney College; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Richmond; Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne; University of Queensland; University of Virginia; Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Cape Town; Valparaiso University; University of Stockholm; San Jose State University; Kansas City Art Institute; University of Colorado - Boulder; Queen's University of Belfast; Edinburgh University; Aberdeen University; St. Andrew's University; Glasgow University; The Australian National University; Canberra School of Music; University of Western Australia; University of Tasmania; University of the Incarnate Word; Victoria University of Wellington; University of California, Riverside; University of Washington; San Antonio College; Mount Holyoke College; University of New Haven; Lake Forest College; Flinders University Adelaide); Concordia College (Montréal); Waikato University (Hamilton, New Zealand); Macquarie University (Sydney); Texas Tech University; University of South Florida; Utah Valley State College; University of Kansas; University of Hong Kong; Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand); University of Auckland; Deakin University; Trinity University; The University of Texas-El Paso; University of Hawaii; Baylor University; Freie Universität Berlin; Denison University; Canterbury University (Christchurch, New Zealand); LaTrobe University; University of New South Wales; University of Melbourne; University of Sydney; California State University, San Bernardino; Simon Fraser University; IMSV Universität Stuttgart; Texas A & M University; Southern Methodist University; The University of Texas at Austin; University of Missouri-Kansas City
OTHER
Albuquerque Academy (2010), Villa Serbelloni Study Center, Bellagio (1993), NEH Summer Institute on the Chinese Classics in Translation (1996)
Teaching:
The University of Texas at Austin, Professor, 1995-presentAssociate Professor, 1989-1995Assistant Professor, 1983-1989Instructor, 1982-1983
University of California, Riverside Visiting Assistant Professor, 1986-1987
Teaching
The University of Auckland (New Zealand)
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Visiting Professor, July-August 2012; May 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 (also five weeks each year 1989-1995); Term 1, 2006.
Professional Activities
VISITING SCHOLAR
Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, April 2013
Honorary Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, July 2007
Big XII Faculty Fellowship, University of Missouri-Kansas City, September 1997Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Philosophy Department and Canberra
School of Music, June-August 1997Scholar-in-Residence for National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Ethics
Seminar, Utah Valley State College, May 1997Visiting Scholar, "Ethics across the Curriculum" Program, sponsored by the
Department of Education's Fund for Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), Utah Valley State College, December 1992, May 1993
Visiting Resource Person at "Friedrich Nietzsche: Problems in Contemporary Philosophy and Criticism," NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, directed by Bernd Magnus, University of California, Riverside, July 1985
Visiting Professor (with Robert C. Solomon), Nordic Graduate Course in Philosophy: "Nietzsche's Naturalism," University of Helsinki, March 2000
FACULTY INSTITUTES
“Ethnomusicology and Global Culture,” NEH Summer Institute, Wesleyan University, June 20-July 1, 2011
“Religion and Philosophy in China,” NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers, University of Hawai’i-Manoa (1998)
“The Chinese Classics in Translation,” NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers, St. Mary’s College (1996)
University of Texas at Austin Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship: The Work of Religion in the World (Spring 2005).
SEMINAR/WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT
Breakthrough Dialogues (Sausalito, CA): “Modernizing Liberalism,” June 16-18, 2011; “Wicked Problems,” June 28-30, 2012; “Creative Destruction,” June 22-25, 2013
Discussant, “Robert Solomon and the Philosophy of Emotion” Conference, University of Queensland, April 2006
Professional Activities
SEMINAR/WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT, continued
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Mini-Conference on the Emotions, sponsored by American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2005
International Society for Research on the Emotions Meeting, New York (July 2004).Moderators' Workshop, Executive Seminar, Aspen Institute (March 2001). University
of Texas Interdisciplinary Conference on the Emotions, 2001, 2004.Executive Seminar, Aspen Institute (July 1999).Conference on the Emotions, Vanderbilt University (October 1995).American Philosophical Association Teaching Workshop, Chicago, January, l989.The 1990 Ruffin Lectures workshop on Women's Studies and Business Ethics,
Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, November 1990.Aesthetics Institute Workshop sponsored by the University of New Mexico, May,
1990."Revisioning Philosophy" Project (sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation), Big Sur,
California, June 1987 and June 1988, and St. John's College, Cambridge University, August l989.
Women and Philosophy Conference, University of Sydney, May 1988.
PROGRAM REVIEW COMMITTEES
Philosophy Department, California State University Fullerton, February 2013Philosophy Department, University of Missouri, Kansas City, March 2012Philosophy Department, Smith College, February 2003Humanities Program, Hong Kong Baptist University, November 2002
CONFERENCE ORGANIZER
Co-organizer, “Art, Beauty, and Beyond,” Philosophy of Art conference, The University of Texas at Austin, February 26-28, 2010.
Co-organizer, International Symposium on Nietzsche and the Philosophical Life, Texas Christian University, April 17-19, 2008.
Co-organizer, Robert C. Solomon Memorial Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, February 15-16, 2008
Program Committee Chair, 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Charleston, South Carolina, October 1994
Local Arrangements Coordinator, 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, The University of Texas at Austin, October 1990
Co-coordinator, "Reading Nietzsche," a symposium of American Nietzsche scholars held at The University of Texas at Austin, February 1985
Professional Activities
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
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American Philosophical Association (member, 1981-present)Committee on the Status of Women, 1995-1998.Nominating Committee, Central Division, 1990-1991.Nominee, Executive Director, 1992.
North American Nietzsche Society (member, 1987-present)Chairman, Program Committee, 1991-1997.Member, Program Committee, 1999-2001.Executive Committee, 1997-1999.
American Society for Aesthetics (member, 1987-present)President, 2017-2018Vice-President, 2015-2016Appointments and Nominations Committees, 2015Prize Selection Committee, 2015Travel Grants Committee, 1993-1995.Program Committee Chair, 1994 National Meeting.Program Committee Member, 1992, 2002, 2010 National MeetingsBudget Committee, 1992-1994Trustee, 1991-1993Local Organizer, 1990 National MeetingFinance Committee, 2003-2004, 2015-2017
International Aesthetics AssociationDelegate-at-Large, 2016-2019
Member, Minorities and Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, American Society for Aesthetics, International Association for Aesthetics, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, North American Nietzsche Society, Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, International Society for Research on the Emotions
EVALUATIONS
External examiner, D.Phil. defense, Balliol College, Oxford, 2015Project Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2011Project review for Icelandic Research Fund for Graduate Students, May 2011M. A. Thesis Assessor, University of Auckland, 2006Fellowship Application, American Academy in Berlin, 2004South African National Research Foundation, 2003National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Application Reviewer, 2001
Professional Activities
EVALUATIONS, continued
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies Regional Selection Committee, 1992-1993
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Outside Ph.D. Thesis Examiner, University of California, Riverside (l989); University of Auckland (1992); (Music), University of Melbourne (1995); University of Sydney (1997); University of Tasmania (1999); University of Singapore (2001); Griffiths University (2012); Macquarie University (2012); Yale University (2014); University of New Mexico (2017)
Outside M.A. Thesis Examiner, Macquarie University (l989); University of Auckland (1993, 1998, 2003)
Faculty Member Promotion Evaluation: University of Hawai’i-Manoa (1992), University of California, Riverside (1992), University of Auckland (1993, 2003), University of South Alabama (1993), Kent State University (2003), Hampshire College (2000, 2004), University of Montana (2004); University of Chicago (Political Science, 2005), Loyola University of Chicago (2006); Hunter College of the City University of New York (2012); (Philological and Linguistic Studies) University of Palermo (2012); Mount Holyoke College (2013); Hampshire College (2015): University of Texas, Arlington (2015); University of Texas, Arlington (2015); University of Louisville (2017); Texas Tech University (2017)
Ph.D. Dissertation Disputation Opponent, Philosophy, Theoretical Philosophy, University of Helsinki (2000); Philosophy, University of Oslo (2001), Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2014)
Selection Committee, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "The Postmodern Turn: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Rorty," directed by Bernd Magnus, 1987.
Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities Translations Program, 1994; Australian Research Council Research Grant Program, 1995
PUBLISHING
Editor, annual Nietzsche Issue of International Studies in Philosophy, 1993-1997. Guest Editor of Special Issue on Robert C. Solomon and the Spiritual
Passions, Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology, and Ethics, 50 (June 2011).
Guest Co-editor (with Joel Rudinow), Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Special on Popular Culture, Spring 1999.
Book cover endorsement for Oneworld Publications (2012); Routledge India (2014)Board of General Editors, Ashgate World Philosophies Series, 1999-2007. Scientific Board, Journal of the International Association for the Philosophy of Humor
(2016)International Advisory Board, Sound Effects. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound
and Sound Experience (2009- present); Sophia (2013- present); Journal of Philosophy of Emotion (2016-); Sophia, 2011-present
Professional Activities
PUBLISHING, continued
Editorial Boards of Journals: Philosophy and Geography (1995-2004), Journal of African Philosophy (1996-2000); Philosophy and Literature (1996-present), The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1999-present); Journal of Nietzsche Studies
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(2007-present); The Journal of Nordic Aesthetics (2007-present), Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty (2009-present)
Reviewer for Publishers: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Methuen, Routledge, The University of Massachusetts Press, University Press of America, Basil Blackwell, State University of New York Press, Oxford University Press, Temple University Press, Humanity Press, Open Court Publishing Company, Cambridge University Press, Springer
Advisory Board of International Nietzsche Studies Series, University of Illinois Press, 1993-2009
Reviewer for Journal Submissions: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Dialogue, Journal of Philosophical Research, Philosophy East and West, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Journal of Philosophical Research, Man and World, Hypatia, Dao, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Sophia, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, British Journal of Aesthetics, Peace & Change, Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, The Polish Journal of Aesthetics (Estetyka i Krytyka), Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, Contemporary Aesthetics
Service
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Philosophy Department
Participant, Philosophy in Secondary Schools Project (Eastside Memorial High School), Minorities and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin chapter, Spring 2016, Spring 2017
Chair, Outreach Programs Committee, 2009-presentUndergraduate Advisor, 2006-2007Honors Advisor, 2006-2007Research Committee Member, 2005-2006Conflict Resolution Committee, 2005-2006; 2012; 2014-2016Finance Committee Member, 2001-2002Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1996-1997Graduate Advisor, 1994-1996Colloquy Committee, 1997-1998; Chair, 1999-2000.Collections Committee member, 1996-1997Subcommittee on Departmental Governance, Fall 1994Minority Liaison Officer, l989-1991, 2005-2006,, 2009-2010Service
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Philosophy Department, continued
Graduate Admissions Committee, l989-l990, 1994-1995Graduate Studies Executive Committee, l989-l990, 1992-1993, 2009-2010; 2014-2017Associate Chair, Spring 1991Search Committee, 1990-1991; Chair, 2000-2001; 2001-2002Committee on Multiculturalism, 1990-1991
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Faculty Sponsor, "Logos" (Undergraduate Philosophy Association), Fall 1988Curriculum Committee, 1982-1986Undergraduate Advising, 1983-1986, 1988-89, 1989-90Presentations to the Undergraduate Philosophy Association on "Aristotle's Poetics"
(July 1983), "Nietzsche's Conception of Love " (May 1984); Undergraduate Philosophy Association Coffee Talk, (February 1998);(with Robert C. Solomon) "Emotions and Music" (September l989); “Nietzschean Ethics" (April 1990), (with Robert C. Solomon) "Romantic Love" (February 1992), (with Robert C. Solomon) "The Question of World Philosophy" (February 1993), (with Robert C. Solomon) "Nietzsche and Existentialism" (September 1994); (with Al Martinich), "Who's Funnier: Hobbes or Schopenhauer (March 1995, September 2005, and April 2007); "The Aesthetic Value of Philosophy" (December 1995); "Nietzsche's ‘Gay Science’" (February 1996); "The Philosophy of Music” (November 1996); "Music and Social Identity" (February 1997); "Chinese Philosophy of Music" (March 1998); (with Robert C. Solomon) “The Philosophy of Sex” (April 2005); (with Daniel Bonevac and Stephen Phillips), “Non-Western Perspectives on Ethics”(April 2012)
Participant, The Longhorn Minorities and Philosophy chapter’s Panel on Graduate Study in Philosophy, November 2, 2016
Presentation on “Romantic Love and Happiness” for Philosophy Department’s “Life Philosophies and Happiness Lectures” series (October 2010)
Presentation on ““Feminist Aesthetics and the Gendered Detail,” Feminist Philosophy Reading Group, 2016
Hibbs Scholarship Competition Judge, 2002, 2003, 2004Dissertation and Master's Thesis Committees, 1988-presentGraduate Study Groups: Heidegger on Nietzsche (2001); Latin American Philosophy
(2002)Machette Essay Contest Judge, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Women & Gender Studies
Women and Gender Studies Steering Committee, 2009-2011Adjunct Faculty, 1989-2014Faculty Associate 2014-present
Service
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Religious Studies
Adjunct Faculty, 2001-presentProgram Committee, 2001-2003Faculty Travel Grant Committee, 2002Steering Committee, Graduate Portfolio Program, 2004
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, College of Liberal Arts
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College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Committee for the Dr. John O. McReynolds & Kirkpatrick Memorial Awards in Pre-Medical Studies, 2017-2019
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2002-2004, 2007-2008, 2010-2012, 2013-2014Academic Planning and Advisory Committee, 2012Post-Tenure Review Committee, 2010Moderator, Emerging Scholarship in Women's and Gender Studies, The Center for
Women's Studies Seventh Annual Student Conference, January 2000Writing Committee, 2006-2007Chair, Dean's Advisory Committee on Philosophy Department Chair, 1995Presentation to Women's Studies Research Seminar, "Nietzsche's View of Women and
“The Gay Science,’" February 1994Presentation to Plan II Engineering Society (with Robert C. Solomon) on "The
Aesthetic Aspects of Romantic Love," April 1997(with Robert C. Solomon) on “Nietzsche’s Perspectivism,” April 2004
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, University Service
Mentor, Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, 2017-2018Memorial Resolution Committee for Professor Emeritus J. Christopher
Middleton, 2016Humanities Institute Advisory Board, 2013-4; Humanities Institute Advisory Council,
2015-presentParticipant, Senate of College Councils Undergraduate Research Day panel, November
9, 2016Panel Discussion on Writing, Orientation for Course Specialist Consultants, University
Writing Center, January 2016Ethics and Leadership Flag for Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2009-2011Presentation on “Foreign Music and Musical Hybrids,” Association of Graduate
Ethnomusicology and Musicology Students, Butler School of Music, November 2015
Presentation to Center for the Study of Modernism on "Nietzsche and Women," September, 1993
Faculty Focus Group for President’s IT Advisory Committee, February 13, 2009
Service
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, University Service, continued
"The Universality of Music," School of Music Colloquy Series in Music Theory, Music History, and Ethnomusicology, January 2001
Visiting Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin's Art Department "Art in Italy Program," August l989
Outside Member, Dissertation Committees, Anthropology (1993-1997), Art History (2001-2006), Communications (1993-1997; 2001-2003), Education (1992-1996; 2002-2003), Government (1998-2001; 2005-2014), Music (1983-85; 1989-92; 1994-2004; 2013-2017), Educational Psychology (1992-1996; 2002-2003)
Comprehensive Examination Committee, School of Music, 1988-90, 1993-1994
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Standing Committee in Folklore and Popular & Expressive Culture, 1997Adjunct Faculty, Folklore Program, 1988-1997Faculty Mentor, Honors Colloquium, 1988, 1989Faculty Mentor Program, 1984-1986
COMMUNITY
Member, Board of Trustees, Austin Shakespeare, 2017-Podcast interview on Post-Truth show of Voice of Islam Drive Time, January
20, 2017. URL: http://voiceofislam.co.uk/podcasts/drive-time-podcast-20012017/
“How do we move forward in the post-truth world?” Interview on for Ideas on CBC Radio, January 19, 2017. URL: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-truth-about-post-truth-1.3939958
“Post-truth,” Nature Podcast, December 22, 2016. URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index-2016-12-22.html
Videoconference with University Women in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, 2014
Panelist with artist Waltercio Caldas discussing “The Nearest Air,” comprehensive exhibition of his work, Blanton Museum of Art, October 26, 2013
“Between Intention and Outcome: A Conversation about Chance” (with artist Bethany Johnson), Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse, January 26, 2013
Journey with an Afghan School Committee (through St. John Neumann Catholic Church), 2010-2013
Independent Study Mentor, Westwood High School, Austin, 2010-2011
Guest Lecture, Graduate Reading Group for Latin American Art Department, Blanton Museum of Art, May 3, 2010
Gallery Talk on “Desire” Exhibition, Blanton Museum of Art, March 25, 2010“Existentialism as a Guide to Life,” presented to the Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship of Austin, June 7, 2009Talkback Panelist responding to Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart, directed by Ann
Ciccolella, performed by Austin Shakespeare, Long Center for the Performing Arts, February 14, 2010
Service
COMMUNITY, continued
“Nietzsche: The Superman of Comedy,” Presentation to the Center for Inquiry Austin, March 11, 2009
“Philosophy – A Guide to Life,” six-week seminar for UT Forum, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, January-February 2009
Participant in “Discussions on Democracy” Video Series, Utah Valley University, September 2008
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Special Guest on PhilosophyLive.com webcast, March 12, 2008Talk on authorship to fourth-grade class at Ridgeview Elementary School, Liberty,
Missouri, August 21, 2007Interview on “Romance,” The Dad Show, KAZI-radio and video,
http://www.dadshow.com/archive.htm, February 2007Conversation with Philosophy Club, Mt. Holyoke College, February 2006"Love and Relationships," presentation to 2lst Street Coop (with Robert C.
Solomon), February 1993Radio Interviews: KLBJ, Austin (1985); KJFK, Austin (1997); RTR-FM, Perth
(1997); Australian Broadcasting Company, Tasmania (1997); Special Broadcasting Service (Sydney) (1997); KUT, Austin, "Longhorn Profile" and Eklectikos (2000); Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney (2006); Radio New Zealand, “Nights with Bryan Crump” (2009); KTUH Radio, Honolulu, “This Divine World” (2011); KPAC, San Antonio (2012); interview on “Nietzsche and Violence” (with David Rutledge) for Australian Broadcasting Corporation) National (2012), URL: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/encounter/not-peace-but-a-sword/4403508
On-Line Interview on Nietzsche, Therapycable Live (2016)Participant in “Instruments of Freedom” Forum on Music and Social Change, LBJ
Library, March 2005"Beauty and Its Kitsch Competitors," Austin Arts Coalition, February 1999"What Nietzsche Really Said" (with Robert C. Solomon), presentation to Learning
Activities for Mature People (October 2000); to UT Quest Continuing Education Group (October 2001)
Speaker for March 2nd Celebration, Guadalupe County Texas Exes, Seguin, Texas, 1998
“Grief and Guilt,” Presentation at “StoryX: Death, Dying, What Comes After,” Austin, October 27, 2016
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