2019-2020 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Humanities
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Mission
The Department of Humanities aims to develop in students an understanding and an appreciation of history and literature, philosophy and language, art and music. It hopes thereby to stimulate students’ imaginations and their joy in life. It also provides training in writing, in the fundamentals of research in the humanities, and in the basics of the fine arts. It undertakes to serve the entire University community by sponsoring lectures, concerts, and many other special events that show the best of the humanities and the fine arts.
The Department of Humanities offers a major in medical humanities.
The Department of Humanities offers minors in humanities and Spanish.
Faculty
Kevin Murphy
BA (Towson University); MA, PhD (University of Maryland, College Park)
Professor of History
Chair, Department of Humanities
Jeffrey M. Brown
AB (Princeton University); MA, MPhil, PhD (Columbia University)
Assistant Professor of English
Martin Oliver Carrion
BA, MPP, PhD (Johns Hopkins University)
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Leah Comeau
BA (Syracuse University); MDiv (Duke University); MA, PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
Assistant Professor of Religion
Michael Dockray
BA, MA, MA (West Chester University)
Lecturer in English
Anne Marie Flanagan
BA, MA, PhD (Temple University)
Associate Professor of English
Christine Flanagan
BA (University of Rochester); MFA (Emerson College)
Associate Professor of English
Clifford Robinson
BA (East Carolina University); PhD (Duke University)
Associate Professor of Classics
Samuel R. Talcott
BA (Pennsylvania State University); MA, PhD (DePaul University)
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Fellow in Humanities
Paul Halpern
BA (Temple University); MA, PhD (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Adjunct Faculty
Roxanne Evans
MA (LaSalle University)
Adjunct Instructor in Spanish
Emeritus Faculty
Peter T. Hoffer
BA (Columbia University); MA (Tufts University); PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
Professor Emeritus of German
Laurie G. Kirszner
BA (Barnard College); MA (New York University); PhD (Temple University)
Professor Emeritus of English
William A. Reinsmith
BA (St. Charles Borromeo Seminary); MA (Villanova University); DA (Carnegie Mellon University)
Professor Emeritus of Humanities
David Traxel
AB (University of California, Berkeley); MA, PhD (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Professor Emeritus of History
CoursesArabicArtClassicsEnglishEthicsHistoryHumanitiesLatinPhilosophyReligion StudiesSpanish
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