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Professor
Department of English, Speech, & Foreign Languages Texas Woman's
University
Denton, TX 76204-5829 USA
Phone: 940.898.2371
Fax: 940.898.2297
bkrajewski@twu.edu
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Chair of the Department of English, Speech, & Foreign Languages at Texas Woman's University (2005-2009).
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
Rhetoric
of Detective Fiction and Film Noir (Fall 2011)
Literary Analysis & Criticism (Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2012)
Literary Criticism (Spring 2010 & Spring 2012)
Law and Literature (Fall 2009)
History of Rhetoric I (Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012)
Literary
Criticism (Spring 2009 & Spring 2013)
History
of Rhetoric II (Fall 2008 & Spring 2012)
History
of Rhetoric I (Spring 2008)
History of Rhetoric II (Spring 2012 & Spring 2013)
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
International Society for the History
of Rhetoric
SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
A separate page for these activities can be found
here.
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