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Professor and Chair
Department of English, Speech, & Foreign Languages Texas Woman's
University
Denton, TX 76204-5829
Phone: 940.898.2324
Fax: 940.898.2297
bkrajewski@twu.edu
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Chair of the
Department of Literature and Philosophy at Georgia Southern University from
1999-2005. The department had a B.A. and M.A. in English, and the B.A. in
Philosophy. The department was home to the Center for Irish Studies, and to the
sole faculty member in Religious Studies. Faculty members also contributed to
the Honors Program. Twenty-three full-time faculty members in total.
Associate Professor
of English and Film from 1991-99, and Chair of the Department from
1995-97. Department housed the B.A. in English, along with an interdisiplinary
M.A. that included the departments of Philosophy, French, Native Studies,
and Modern Languages. It was the first interdisciplinary M.A. in Ontario.
During 1997-98, while on sabbatical, I was a Visiting Scholar in the
English Department at Texas A&M University in College Station.
Andrew
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago from 1988-91.
Taught a course called "Human Being and Citizen," which
was part of the Core Curriculum for undergraduate students. The
"Human Being and Citizen" instructors included Amy Kass,
Wayne Booth, and Richard Strier, and all the instructors
participated in
regular meetings to discuss the texts the students were reading.
During my time on that fellowship, I revised the dissertation into
the book that became Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutics and Rhetoric.
Also, began work, with Richard Heinemann on translation of Hans-Georg Gadamer's book on Paul Celan.
EDUCATION
1988 - Ph.D., University of Iowa (English)
1985 - University of California, Berkeley
Greek Workshop (Summer)
1983 - M.A., University of Iowa (English).
1981 - B.A., Glassboro State College (English &
Journalism)
RECENT COURSES
History of Rhetoric II (Fall 2008)
History
of Rhetoric I (Spring 2008)
Literary
Criticism: Hidden Texts, Buried Meanings (Spring 2008)
History of Rhetoric
I (Spring 2007)
Film and Literature (Fall 2006)
Literary Analysis and Criticism (Spring 2006)
Graduate course: Literary Criticism (Spring 2006)
Major Authors: Walter Benjamin (Fall 2003)
Classicism (Fall 2003)
Contemporary Moral Problems (Fall 2002)
Turning Points and Connections (Fall 2002)
MEMBERSHIPS
International Association
for Philosophy and Literature
Modern Language Association
American Philosophical
Association
South Central Modern
Language Association
International Society for the
History of Rhetoric
Society for Cinema & Media Studies
SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
A separate page for these activities can be
found here.
LAST UPDATED 19 NOVEMBER 2008
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