A Guide to Graduate Aesthetics in North America

A Guide to Graduate Aesthetics in North America Third Edition Edited by Dominic McIver Lopes University of British Columbia 2012 ⡋ American Society for Aesthetics Contents About the Guide ! About the ASA ! Doctoral Programs " Master’s Programs #$ GUIDE TO GRADUATE AESTHETICS IN NORTH AMERICA 3 About About the Guide the ASA This Guide has been compiled for students who are interested in pursuing graduate studies in philoso-phy with an expertise or competence in aesthetics or the philosophy of art. It’s available free of charge at http://aesthetics-online.org. In #%%& the American Society for Aesthetics sur-veyed graduate and undergraduate philosophy de-partments to determine how many have philoso-phers of art on staff, what aesthetics courses are offered, and what demand exists for those courses. It was found that demand for undergraduate aes-thetics courses is steady and increasing somewhat and matches demand for core courses; that almost one in four departments report an increase in de-mand for aesthetics at the graduate level; and that many departments would like to offer more aes-thetics and a substantial proportion have plans to do so. The data for this edition of the Guide were collected in ’(#’ using a survey sent to every North Ameri-can graduate philosophy department. Each de-partment was asked to to identify the graduate aes-thetics courses it offers, any teaching opportunities for graduate students in aesthetics courses, and the names and interests of faculty capable of supervis-ing students in aesthetics. Fifty-four departments replied and are represented in the Guide. The information in this Guide has been reported by the departments themselves. It should not be un-derstood to have been endorsed by the ASA, nor should it form the sole basis for selecting a gradu- ate program. The American Society for Aesthetics was founded in #%"’ to promote study, research, discussion, and publication in aesthetics. The Society meets annu-ally in the fall and its three regional divisions in the spring. It also publishes the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the ASA Newsletter. Both are free to members. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism publishes current research articles, symposia, special issues, and book reviews in aesthetics and the arts. The term “aesthetics,” in this connection, is understood to include all studies of the arts and related types of experience from a philosophic, scientific, or other theoretical standpoint. The “arts” are taken to include not only the traditional forms such as music, literature, landscape architecture, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, and other visual arts, but also more recent additions such as pho-tography, film, earthworks, performance and con-ceptual art, the crafts and decorative arts, contem-porary technical innovations, and other cultural practices, including work and activities in the field of popular culture. Students pay a modest membership fee. To join, visit http://aesthetics-online.org. GUIDE TO GRADUATE AESTHETICS IN NORTH AMERICA Doctoral Programs University of Alberta Orientation: Analytic, Continental, Historical The department of philosophy at the University of Alberta offers one aesthetics course per year or one every other year. The offerings include courses in general aesthetics, philosophy of literature, the history of aesthetics, and environmental aesthetics. Neither teaching assistantships nor graduate in-structorships are regularly available in aesthetics courses. Aesthetics Faculty Robert Burch, Associate Professor, works in the philosophy of literature, continental aesthetics (in-cluding Hegel and Heidegger) Allen Carlson, Professor Emeritus, works in the fields of environmental aesthetics, the philosophy of film and architecture Marie-Eve Morin, Assistant Professor, works in the philosophy of literature, continental phenome-nology and hermeneutics Alex Rueger, Professor, works in German aesthetic theory (eighteenth and nineteenth century), and the history of aesthetics (especially Kant) Amy Schmitter, Associate Professor, works in gen-eral aesthetics, pictorial representation, history of aesthetics and art theory, feminist aesthetics, phi-losophy of (and philosophical) art history and methodology http://www.philosophy.ualberta.ca 4 University of Arizona Orientation: Analytic, Historical The department of philosophy at the University of Arizona offers an aesthetics course every other year. The offerings include courses in general aes-thetics and the philosophy of of music. Neither teaching assistantships nor graduate instructor-ships are regularly available in aesthetics courses. Aesthetics Faculty Keith Lehrer, Professor Emeritus, interests in-clude representation and content in the arts, the relation between artistic representation and content and the world outside of art, and the definition and value of art Joseph Tolliver, Associate Professor, works in the philosophy of music and the philosophy of film Jonathan Weinberg, Associate Professor, works at the intersection of cognitive science and aesthetics, including imagination, emotion, and genre http://philosophy.arizona.edu Boston College Orientation: Continental, Historical The department of philosophy at Boston College offers an aesthetics course every year on general aesthetics, the history of aesthetics, the philosophy of literature, or philosophy and printing. About five students are pursuing an AOS or an AOC in aesthetics. Neither teaching assistantships nor graduate instructorships are regularly available in aesthetics courses. http://www.bc.edu Boston University Orientation: Analytic, Historical The department of philosophy at Boston University offers an aesthetics course every year in general aesthetics. Currently one student is pursuing an AOS or an AOC in aesthetics. Neither teaching GUIDE TO GRADUATE AESTHETICS IN NORTH AMERICA assistantships nor graduate instructorships are regularly available in aesthetics courses. Aesthetics Faculty Daniel Dahlstrom, Professor, works in nineteenth century German philosophy Victor Kestenbaum, Professor, works in American Philosophy, Pragmatism and Phenomenology, Phi-losophy and Literature, Phenomenology and Aes-thetics Allen Speight, Associate Professor, works in nine-teenth century German philosophy http://www.bu.edu/philo University of British Columbia Orientation: Analytic The UBC philosophy department regularly offers courses in aesthetics, especially on topics overlap-ping with issues in the philosophy of mind, epis-temology, and metaphysics. There are about six graduate students pursuing an AOC or AOS in aesthetics at UBC. Teaching assistantships and graduate instructorships are normally available in aesthetics courses every year. Aesthetics Faculty 5 University of California, Irvine Orientation: Analytic, Continental, Historical The department of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine offers an aesthetics course every year in general aesthetics, the history of aesthetics, the philosophy of film, and the philosophy of painting. Currently one student is pursuing an AOS or an AOC in aesthetics. Neither teaching assistantships nor graduate instructorships are regularly available in aesthetics courses. Aesthetics Faculty Martin Schwab, Professor, works in twentieth cen-tury French philosophy (esp., Foucault, Deleuze, and Ricoeur), critical theory of society, as well as figures in philosophy: Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel http://www.humanities.uci.edu/philosophy Catholic University of America Orientation: Continental, Historical The department of philosophy at the Catholic Uni-versity of America regularly offers aesthetics courses in areas such as general aesthetics and the history of aesthetics. Currently one student is pur-suing either an AOS or an AOC in aesthetics. Nei- ther teaching assistantships nor graduate instruc- Dominic McIver Lopes, Professor, works in picto- rial representation, the aesthetic and the cognitive torships are regularly available in aesthetics courses. values of pictures, digital art, ontology of art, theo-ries of art, art and value, cross-cultural aesthetics, and the intersection between aesthetics and cogni-tive science Chris Mole, Associate Professor, works in philoso-phy of literature John Woods, Professor Emeritus, works in the philosophy of fiction http://aesthetics.mentalpaint.net http://www.philosophy.ubc.ca Aesthetics Faculty Virgil Nemoianu, Distinguished Professor, works in theories of aesthetics, the philosophy of culture, literature and the arts http://philosophy.cua.edu ... - tailieumienphi.vn