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Years at Knox: 2007 to present
Education
Ph.D., 2010, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., 2005, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A., 2003, Knox College.
Teaching Interests
Philosophy of Music, Philosophy in Literature, American Philosophy, Greek Philosophy, Symbolic Logic.
Publications
"Tortured Calculations: Body Economies in Shakespeare's Cultures of Honor." Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference: Selected Papers, forthcoming.
Presentations
"Making Sense of Music." Paper, The Philosophy of Performance: Art in Modern Society Conference, Notre Dame University, 2012.
"Tortured Calculations: Body Economies in Shakespeare's Cultures of Honor." Paper, Michigan State University. Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference, 2011.
Mark Konkol, a member of the Chicago Sun-Times team that won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize, converses about his work and offers tips to aspiring journalists about how to report and write high-quality news stories.
The National Endowment of the Arts' Big Read Blog interviews a Knox College student and faculty member who helped to create a unique audio archive that spotlights writers from across the United States.
"Horizons: A Celebration of Student Inquiry, Imagination, and Creativity" featured student research presentations in the humanities, sciences and social sciences on May 5, and student presentations in music in on May 8.