Thomas E. Wartenberg

Department of Philosophy
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA 01075
e-mail: twartenb@mtholyoke.edu

Professional Experience:

Professor, Mount Holyoke College, 1992-present; Associate Professor, 1984-1991; Chair, 1989-90, 1991-94, 1995-96; Chair, Film Studies Program, 1996-99 Member of the Graduate Faculty, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1988-present Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Auckland, 1994-95 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, 1990-1991 Visiting Assistant Professor, Hampshire College, 1983-1984 Assistant Professor, Duke University, 1977-1983 Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, 1973-1976

Areas of Specialization:

Philosophy of Film, Continental Philosophy, Kant and Nineteenth Century German Philosophy

Courses Taught:

Graduate: Kant, Hegel, Hegel and Marx, Heidegger, Recent Analytic Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy Undergraduate: History of Ancient Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Existentialism, Recent Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Film, Social Ideals and Utopia, Justice and Society, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory, Social Power, Heidegger and his French Readers: From Existentialism to Deconstruction, Film Comedy, Introduction to Film, Philosophy of Film

Dissertation:

Reason and Truth in Kant's Theory of Experience Advisor: Wilfrid Sellars

Postdoctoral Fellowships and Awards:

NEH Summer Seminar on Philosophical Approaches to History: Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, 1992, Director NEH Fellowship for College Teachers, 1990-91 NEH Summer Seminar on the Enlightenment, 1989, Participant Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, Munich, 1986-87 ACLS Travel Grant, 1986 ACLS/NEH Summer Institute on Kantian Ethical Thought, 1983, Participant

Education:

Amherst College, B.A., 1971 summa cum laude Stanford University, M.A., 1973 University of Pittsburgh, Ph. D., 1977 University of Heidelberg, 1976-1977

Membership in Professional Organizations:

American Society for Aesthetics American Philosophical Association Hegel Society of America Hegel Society of Great Britain Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung Kant Society of America North American Society for Social Philosophy, Co-Chair, Eastern Division, 1990-93 Society for Cinema Studies Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts Sofphia Philosophers, Treasurer

Other Professional Activities:

General Editor for Thinking through Cinema: The Philosophy of Film Book Series (Westview Press) American Philosophical Association Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy, Member 1989-92 Editorial Board Member, Film and Philosophy, The Owl of Minerva, The Radical Philosophy Journal Reviewer for Hypaetia, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Researach, Polity,Teaching Philosophy, Beacon Press, Cambridge University Press, SUNY Press, Temple University Press, Press, University of Illinois Press, Westview Press, etc. Grant Proposal Reviewer, NEH Humanites Translation Projects

Courses	CV	Books
Other Publications