Gregory Burgin
Student Information
English (Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies)
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Biography
Dr. Gregory Burgin is a faculty instructor with the Writers' Studio in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. His research interests emerge from the areas of continental philosophy and comparative East-West thought.
Education
- Ph.D. English: Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies- Arizona State University 2020.
- Master of Letters. Philosophy (Aesthetics, Metaphysics), University of Glasgow, Scotland 2008.
- B.A. Radio and Television (Theory and Criticism of the Media), San Francisco State University 2006
Research Interests
Buddhism, Posthuman Studies, Comparative East-West thought, Rhetoric and Composition Studies, and 19th century to Contemporary Continental Philosophy.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
“Danto’s Error: Sustaining Art’s Narrative with the Primacy of the Aesthetic,” The Journal of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World 22(1) (spring 2015) (peer-reviewed).
Essays:
Rhetorical Realism: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things. Scot Barnett, New York: Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-138-64821-0,Reviewed for Frontiers of Philosophy in China 14(2) (Summer 2019).
Research Activity
"Beauty as Restraint: Ethically Caring for the Twofold Locality of Beauty." Paper presented at Fonte Aretusa: The Fourth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece: with a special emphasis on τὸ καλόν to kalon: the beautiful, good, noble, fine at the Sicily Center for International Education, June 2018.
“The Rhetoric of Ruins.” Paper presented at The Twelfth Annual Meeting of The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle at Arizona State University, March 2017.
“The Original Ethics of our Poetic Dwelling in a Technological World.” Paper presented at the Critical Issues in Eastern and Western Philosophy Conference at the Nepal Academy, Nepal, Kathmandu December 2016.
“The Path of the Wounded Healer: The Shamanic Journey in T.S. Eliot’s, Four Quartets.” Paper presented at the Apothecary’s Chest: Magic, Art, & Medication symposium at the University of Glasgow, November 2007.
Courses
| Summer 2022 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Spring 2022 | |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Fall 2021 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Summer 2021 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Spring 2021 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Fall 2020 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Summer 2020 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Spring 2020 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Fall 2019 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Summer 2019 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| Spring 2019 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |