CHRISTOPHER S. YATES CURRICULUM VITAE 4933 Sugar Hollow Road, Crozet, Virginia

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1 Area of Specialization 19 th -20 th Century Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics CHRISTOPHER S. YATES CURRICULUM VITAE 4933 Sugar Hollow Road, Crozet, Virginia Areas of Competence Phenomenology, History of Philosophy, German Idealism, Stucturalism & Poststructuralism Education Ph.D. Philosophy. Boston College M.A. Philosophy. Univ. of Memphis M.A. Theological Studies. Regent College, Vancouver, Canada B.A. History. Univ. of North Carolina Academic Employment Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (Fall 2014 Present) Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Virginia (Fall 2016) Adjunct Instructor, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University (Fall 2015) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Grove City College ( ) Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Gordon College & Boston College ( ) (Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, Boston College: ) Courses Recently Taught Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (Graduate Level): Foundational Texts: Plato to Kristeva, The Kant-Hegel Divide, The Twentieth Century: Art in Theory, The Subject and Object of Art, Readings in Contemporary Theory, Continental Glissement: German Idealism & the French Inhuman, Grove City College (Undergraduate Level): Introduction to Ethics, Twentieth Century Philosophy, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Kierkegaard & Nietzsche, Environmental Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Independent Study on Sartre & Levinas University of Virginia (Graduate/Advanced Undergraduate Level): Continental Philosophy and Faith Virginia Commonwealth University (Masters Level): Contemporary Aesthetics Independent Study Direction at IDSVA: Topics: Aesthetics of Place, Feminist Aesthetics, Philosophy of the Abject, Hermeneutics of Cézanne, Philosophy of Intuition & Ceramics, Double-Consciousness and Race, Heidegger & Installation Art, Philosophy of the Uncanny, Imagination & Intuition in Aesthetic Practice Dissertation Direction at IDSVA: 1

2 Dwelling and the Aesthetics of Place, The Violent Image, A Techno-Aesthetic Ethics, Jackson Pollack and Phenomenology, Painting and Temporality, Creative Intuition and Painting. Books Book: The Poetic Imagination in Heidegger and Schelling (Bloomsbury: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy, October, 2013). Edited Volume: Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from this Widening Gyre (Continuum: February, 2011). Co-Editor with Nathan Eckstrand. Edited Journal Issues The Final Ricoeur, special edition of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 37, No. 9, March, Hospitality: Imagining the Stranger, special edition of Religion & the Arts, Vol. 14, No. 5, December, Articles & Book Chapters Percy s Poetics of Dwelling: The Dialogical Self and the Ethics of Reentry in The Last Gentleman and Lost in the Cosmos, in Walker Percy: Philosopher, ed. Leslie Marsh, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018: pp Beauty (contributor), Thriving Cities Endowment Briefs, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, August 2015, published online: Beyond Anthropologism: Derrida s Heidegger and the Movement of Language, in Hermeneutics- Ethics-Education, ed. Andrzej Wiercinski, Münster: LIT Verlag, 2015, pp Seams in the Desert: Cormac McCarthy s Literary Ontology of Place, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 2, November, 2014: pp Poetizing and the Question of Measure, Studia Philosophiae Christianae Vol. 49, No. 4, 2013, pp This Double Fidelity: The Messianic Lens for Levinas Eschatological Vision, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 42, No. 2, May, 2011: pp Between Mourning and Magnetism: Derrida and Waldenfels on Hospitality, in Phenomenologies of the Stranger, eds. Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch, Fordham, 2011: pp Grammar of the Uncanny, Religion & the Arts, Vol. 14, No. 3, December, 2010: pp Introduction in Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from this Widening Gyre, eds. C. Yates and Nathan Eckstrand, Continuum, February, 2011: pp Refiguring the Essential Word: The Work of Imagination in Ricoeur s Late Apprenticeship, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 37, No. 9, March, 2011: pp

3 Stations of the Self: Aesthetics and Ascetics in Foucault s Conversion Narrative, Foucault Studies, No. 8, February, 2010: pp A Question of Necessity: Deconstruction, Khōra, and Faith, Irish Theological Quarterly, No. 74, 2009: pp Checking Janicaud s Arithmetic: How Phenomenology and Theology Make Two, Analecta Hermeneutica, Vol. 1, 2009: pp A Phenomenological Aesthetic of Cinematic Worlds, Contemporary Aesthetics Online, ( Vol. 4, Book Reviews, Review Essays, Art Reviews, Editorials On the World-Disclosing Rifts of Cinema: J.F. Martel and Christopher Yates in Dialogue, Metapsychosis April 29, 2018 ed. Marco V. Morelli, Prolegomena to Any Future Cover Letter in the Humanities, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 16, 2017, Phenomenologies of Violence, ed. Michael Staudigl, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 48 No. 3, August, 2015: pp Akiko Kotani, Soft Walls, Exhibit Catalog Essay, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas. November, The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger, by Felix O Murchadha, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, November, Hume and the Human Imagination: David Hume: Platonic Philosopher, Continental Ancestor, by Bernard Freydberg, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Vol. 5 No. 1, May, 2013: pp Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture, by Lambert Zuidervaart, European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 21 S2, June, 2013: pp. e17-e22. Longing for the Other: Levinas and Metaphysical Desire, by Drew Dalton, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 45 No. 2, May, 2012: pp The Return of Renard: A Review of The Journal of Jules Renard, The Other Journal ( Issue 14, March 11, Cathedrals of the Ordinary: David Gordon Green s Existential Cinema, November, Hope for the Denarrated Self: Revisiting a Decade of Douglas Coupland, Crux, Vol. 39 No. 1 March, 2003: pp Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, by David Brooks; Lost in the Cosmos, by Walker Percy, New Oxford Review. Vol. LXIX No. 3, March, 2002: pp

4 Select Presentations The Perils of Clarity as we Live in Quest of Narrative: Lacan & Ricoeur, Psychology and the Other, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Leslie University, (October, 2017). Tanning our own Hides: The Enframed Body and the Body of Sense in Wim Wenders Until the End of the World, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), San Francisco, University of San Francisco, (September 2017). Dialogical Truth and the Ethics of Alterity in Walker Percy s The Last Gentleman, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Jacksonville, Florida, November, Continental Philosophy s Bestiary Unconsciousness, Panel Moderator, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, Utah, October, Subjects Nonetheless: Knut Hamsun s Hunger and the Poetics of Self-Deception, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle, Washington, Seattle University, September 26, Caspar David Friedrich and the Reticence of the Beautiful, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, Loyola Marymount University, October 3, Check One or More: Percy and Heidegger on the Problem of Authenticity, Still Lost in the Cosmos: Walker Percy and the 21 st Century Conference, The Walker Percy Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, (October 11-12, 2013). Revised and presented at Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) Annual Conference in conjunction with SPEP, New Orleans, October 24, Cormac McCarthy s Literary Ontology of Place, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), San Francisco, CA, University of San Francisco, September 26-28, Review of Pol Vandevelde s Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Rochester, NY, November 1, Offspring of Chaos: Artistry and Imagination in Schelling s Freiheitsschrift, North American Schelling Society, Seattle University, August 30-September 1, Heidegger on Poetizing and the Question of Measure, Heidegger Circle Satellite Session, Eastern Division Meeting of APA, Washington DC, December 27-30, 2011 Beyond Anthropologism: Derrida s Heidegger and the Movement of Language, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences annual meeting in conjunction with SPEP, Philadelphia, PA, October 21-24, I also served as Moderator of panel on Heidegger and Phenomenology. This paper was also presented at the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle, WA, October 6-10, Navigating the Between: Derrida and Waldenfels on the Art of Hospitality, Philosophy and the Other Conference, Cambridge, Mass, October 1-3, Perception & the Body: Revisiting Husserl s Clue to Intersubjectivity, Localization and Space, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) Annual Conference in 4

5 conjunction with SPEP, Montreal, November 4-6, In the Interest of Disinterestedness: Kant and his Readers on the Question of Beauty, Canadian Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Montreal, May 28-30, The Necessity of Distress & the Abandonment of Being in Heidegger s Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), The Heidegger Circle, Stony Brook University, Manhattan, May 7-9, Refiguring the Essential Word: The Work of Imagination in Ricoeur s Late Apprenticeship, Ricouer Society Annual Conference, in conjunction with SPEP, Washington, DC, October 30, Narrative Horizons: Mimesis and Time in the Poetics of Paul Ricoeur, Canadian Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, May 31, The Venture of the Distressed: Five Steps to Understanding and Enacting the Heart of Heidegger s Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), Heidegger Symposium, Boston College, April 16, Promise before Light? Derrida s Khora and the Borders of Belief, Conference on Belief and Metaphysics, The Centre of Theology & Philosophy, Granada, Spain. September, A Phenomenological Aesthetic of Cinematic Worlds, American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, March 29-31, 2006 Absolute and A Priori: Kant, Space, and the Problem of Incongruent Counterparts, Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN. February, World Without End? Levinas and the Localization of Transcendence through an Eschatology without Eschaton, Conference on Transcendence & Phenomenology, The Centre of Theology & Philosophy, University of Nottingham. September, Invited Talks Millicent Young Cantos for the Anthropocene, Les Yeux du Monde Art Gallery, February 11, Simone Weil s Call to Attention, University of Virginia, God and the Mystery of the World course, Prof. Charles Marsh, Guest Presentation, February 8, Kierkegaard s Aesthetic and the Path of Paradox, University of Virginia, Theological Horizons, April, Attentiveness in Simone Weil and David Foster Wallace, University of Virginia, Theological Horizons, October, Sense and the Saving Power of Art in an Age of Enframing, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, European Residency, Spannocchia Castle, Italy, June, The Prompting: The Imagination as the Condition for the Possibility of Subjectivity and Sense?, 5

6 Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, European Residency, Spannocchia Castle, Italy, June, The Art of Taking the Measure, Gordon College Program in Orvieto, Piazza Santo Spirito, Florence, Italy, Guest Presentation, May, Art and the Emerging Order of Perception, University of Virginia, Art Theory Seminar with Prof. Dean Dass, February, Heidegger s Question Concerning Technology & the Saving Power of Art, University of Virginia, Media Theory Course, Prof. Chad Wellmon, Guest Presentation, October Otherness and Art in Martin Buber s I & Thou, University of Virginia, Faith and Doubt in the Modern Age Course, Prof. Charles Marsh, Guest Presentation, March, The Artistry of Philosophy and the Wisdom of Art, Graduate Commencement Address, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, January, 2014, New York City. To Think like the Artist Paints: Schelling on the Philosophical Imagination, Slippery Rock University, Department of Philosophy, Spring Lecture Series, April 16, Sartre on Freedom and Bad Faith, Boston College, Philosophy of Existence Seminar, Prof. Richard Kearney, Guest Presentation, April 2, Kierkegaard s Abraham and the Paradox of Faith, Boston College, Philosophy of the Person Course, Prof. Anna Djintcharadzé, Guest Presentation, March 30, Heidegger s Project of Fundamental Ontology, Boston College, Philosophy of Existence Seminar, Prof. Richard Kearney, Guest Presentation, February 24, 2009, & 2010, Hospitality and the Stranger in Derrida and Waldenfels, Boston College, Hosting the Stranger Seminar, Prof. Richard Kearney, Guest Presentation, February 18, Kant s View of the Imagination, Boston College, Philosophy of the Imagination Seminar, Prof. Richard Kearney, Guest Presentation, October 21, Aesthetics and Ascetics in Foucault s Art of Living, Boston College Philosophy Forum, October 24, Derrida s Heidegger and the Task for Thinking, Guest Presentation in Prof. John Sallis Graduate Seminar, Boston College: Phenomenology and its Aftermath, April, Languages Reading knowledge of German & French Select Fellowships and Honors Dissertation Fellowship , Boston College Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Civitas Fellow. Center for Public Justice, Washington, DC. Summer, Publius Fellow. The Claremont Institute, Claremont, CA. Summer, Graduate Student Essay Prize, Ricoeur Society,

7 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for (Boston College) Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam (Boston College): Distinction. Prize for Interdisciplinary Studies. Regent College Commencement, Service Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts: Director of Dissertation Committees, Chair of Independent Studies, Admissions Committee, Curriculum Committee, Qualifying Exam Committee, Self-Study Committee, Dissertation Defense Committee, Independent Study Direction, Dissertation Direction. Manuscript Referee: Indiana University Press, Lexington Books (Rowan & Littlefield), Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, The Journal of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, Aletheia: The Alphi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship Professional Memberships Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, College Art Association, Ricoeur Society, North American Levinas Society, The Heidegger Circle, American Philosophical Association, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Schelling Society of North America References Richard Kearney, Charles Seelig Professor of Philosophy, Boston College , Jason Wirth, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University , Bernard Freydberg, Scholar in Residence, Duquesne University , John Sallis, Frederick J. Adelmann S.J. Professor of Philosophy, Boston College , George Smith, Founder and President, Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts , Simonetta Moro, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Director and Associate Professor of Art and Theory, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts , Jeff Bloechl, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston College , 7