CURRICULUM VITAE Kevin Corrigan Present Position: Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities Address: Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts Emory University S410 Callaway Center Tel: 404-727-6460 Email: [email protected] Languages: Speak: English, French Read: English, French, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish, Italian EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: 2015- Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Associated in Classics, Philosophy, Religion/Graduate division of Religion 2009-15 Chair/Director, ILA 2009- Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities 2009- Associated in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies 2007-2009 Director of Graduate Studies, ILA 2007- Associated in Classics, Philosophy and Religion 2006-2007 Senior Research Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry 2005-2006 Interim Director, ILA 2004- Director, Medieval Studies 2003-2006 Director, Undergraduate Studies, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University 2003 - Professor (tenured), Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University 2002-2003 Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and Classics, Emory University 2001-2002 Visiting Professor, Humanities (Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Comparative Literature), Emory University 2000-2001 Director, Classical, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies Programme (16 participating departments), Department of History, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan (and Associate Member) 2 . 1993-1994 Research Fellow, Department of Latin and Greek, University College London, England 1992- Full Professor 1991-1998 Dean, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan 1990- Associate Member, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask. 1989-1992 Associate Professor 1988- Associate Member, Department of Classics, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask. 1986-1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy (tenured, 1988), St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, Sask. 1985-1986 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy & Classics, University of Regina, Regina, Sask. 1983-1985 Sessional Lecturer, Department of Philosophy & Classics, University of Regina, Regina, Sask. 1982-1986 Assistant Professor (term position), Philosophy & Classics, Acting Director of the University Programme, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Wilcox, Sask. 1980-1982 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Research Fellow, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Wilcox, Sask. 1977-1980 Ph.D. in Classics\Philosophy, Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ph.D Thesis: Plotinus' Implicit Critique of Aristotle 1975-1977 M.A. in Classics\Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Supervisor: A.H. Armstrong) 1973-1975 B.A. (Hons.) in Classics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England (Supervisor: G.J. P. O'Daly) 3 PUBLISHED WORK Books 1. The Life of St. Macrina by St. Gregory of Nyssa, trans., introduction and notes, Peregrina, Toronto, 1987. Reprinted 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001. 2. Plotinus' Theory of Matter - Evil and the Question of Substance: Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander ofAphrodisias, Peeters Press, Louvain, Belgium, 1996,pp. 485 and xviii. 3. Plato's Dialectic at Play: Structure, Myth, and Argument in the Symposium (with Elena Glazov-Corrigan), Penn State Press, 2004. 4. Plotinus: a practical introduction to Neoplatonism, Purdue University Press, 2004. 5. Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern, ed. with John D. Turner, Brill, Leiden, May, 2007. 6. Reading Ancient Texts: The Presocratics and Plato. Essays in Honour of Denis O’Brien, ed. with Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Brill, Leiden, 2007. 7. Reading Ancient Texts: Aristotle to Augustine, Brill, Leiden, 2007. 8. Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century: Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa, Ashgate Press, UK, 2009. 9. Plato’s Parmenides and its heritage, Volume I: History and Interpretation from the Old Academy to Later Platonism and Gnosticism, SBL: Atlanta, 2010 (Leiden: Brill, 2011). 10. Plato’s Parmenides and its heritage, Volume II: Reception in Patristic, Gnostic, and Christian Neoplatonic Texts, SBL: Atlanta, 2010 (Leiden: Brill, 2011). 11. Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions: from Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period, (In honor of Steven K. Strange), edited with John D. Turner, P. Wakefield, Sankt Augustin: Akademia Verlag, 2012. 12. Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and early Christian Thought, Ashgate Press, UK. 2013. 13. Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World: Essays in Honour of John D. Turner. Edited by Kevin Corrigan and Tuomas Rasimus, in collaboration with Dylan Burns, Lance Jenott and Zeke Mazur. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. Leiden: Brill 2013. 4 14. Plotin. Traités 31- 32, Commentaire, for Les Belles Lettres, Vrin, Paris (by invitation 2014), 2017. 15. Plotinus. Ennead VI 8, On the Free Will of the One, text, translation and commentary, for Parmenides Press, USA (by invitation-2015), to appear 2017. 16. Ecology and the Ancient World, (with John Dillon) (proposed completion—2018). 17. Plotin. Traités 2-6, for Les Belles Lettres, Vrin, Paris (by invitation—2018). 18. An unfamiliar Plato—manuscript at present of 150 pages (proposed completion— 2018/2019). 19. Knowing and Seeing: Stereotypes in Ordinary Life (with Elizabeth Goodstein, eds)— book proposal (June 2017) and then manuscript for publication. 20. Anthropology, Psychoanalysis and Interdisciplinarity –provisional title (with Kim Loudermilk, eds)—book proposal (June 2017) and then manuscript for publication. Articles, chapters, reviews 1. "The Internal Dimensions of the Sensible Object in the thought of Plotinus and Aristotle", Dionvsius V, 1982, 98-126. 2. "Domus Dei, Domus Hominis: Some Reflections on home, love and creativity in Antiquity", The Canadian Catholic Review, Vol I, 1983. 3. "A Philosophical Precursor to the Theory of Essence and Existence in St. Thomas Aquinas", The Thomist, 48, 1984,219-240. 4. "The Irreconcilable Opposition Between the Platonic and Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul in some Ancient and Mediaeval Thinkers"; Laval Théologique et Philosophique, 41, 3, 1985, 391-401. 5. "Body's Approach to Soul: An Examination of a Recurrent Theme in the Enneads", Dionysius IX, 1985, 37-52. 6. "El Simbolismo Natural de la Luz en Plotino", Revista de Filosofia Vol.XXV- XXVI, Oct. 1985, 51-56 (trans. Prof. O. Vélasquez). 7. "Ivan's Devil in The Brothers Karamazov in the light of a traditional Platonic view of evil", Forum for Modern Languages, 22, 1986, 1-9, January 1986. 8. "Plotinus' Enneads 5,4 [7],2 and related passages: A New Interpretation of the Status of the Intelligible Object," Hermes, 114, 1986, 195-204. 5 9. "Is there more than one generation of matter in the Enneads?” Phronesis, 21, 1986, 167-181. 10. "Body and Soul in Ancient Religious Experience" in Classical Mediterranean Spirituality, ed. A.H. Armstrong, vol. XV of World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, Fordham University Press, New York, 1986, 360- 384. 11. "The Course of Plotinian Scholarship from 1970-1986," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Band II, 36, 1, 1987,571-623. 12. "Amelius, Plotinus and Porphyry on Being, Intellect and the One," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Band II, 36, 2, 1987, 975-993. 13. "Saint Macrina: the hidden face behind the making of a tradition," Vox Benedictina 5, 1, 1988, 13-42 (reprinted in On Pilgrimage, ed. M. King, Hignell, Winnipeg, 1994, 99-110). 14. "On the generation of matter in the Enneads. A reply", Dionysius 12, 1988, 17-24. 15. "Conflict and Consistency in the Theories of Matter in Plotinus and Ibn Gabirol", in Proceedings of the XIIth International Conference on Patristic, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, Villanova, 1989, 101-112. 16. "Syncletica and Macrina: Two Early Lives of Women Saints". Vox Benedictina 6, 3, 1989, 241-256. 17. "The Function of the Ideal in Plato's Republic and Thomas More's Utopia", Moreana (France), 1990, XXVII, 104, 27-49. 18. Plotinus. The Experience of Unity. Gary Gurtler - Review, Ancient Philosophy. 10, 1990, 143-145. 19. "A New Source for the Distinction between Esse and Quod Est in Boethius' De Hebdomadibus," Studia Patristica XVIII, 1991, 4, 133-138. 20. "On Intellect's Relation to the One in Plotinus" (Review article), Ancient Philosophy 12 (1992), 230-237. 21. "Light and Metaphor in Plotinus and Thomas Aquinas", The Thomist, 57, 2(1993), 187-200. 22. "Value and the University: A Philosophical Perspective", in Value and the University, ed. L.M. Findley, Humanities Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan (1993), 55- 62. 6 23. "Plotinus and St. Gregory of Nyssa: Can Matter have a Positive function?" Studia Patristica 1993, volume 27, 14-20. 24. "Berkeley and Plotinus on the non-existence of matter", invited paper delivered to the Stephen MacKenna Society on the four hundredth anniversary of Trinity College, Dublin, May 1992, (1 1/2 hrs., 33 pages); Hermathena, Dublin, CLVII, Winter 1994, 67-86. 25. "Ecstasy and ectasy in some early pagan and Christian mystical writings", Greek and Medieval Studies in Honor of Leo Sweeney, S.J., eds. William J. Carroll & John J. Furlong, Peter Lang, New York, Berlin, 1995, 27-37. 26. “‘Solitary’ Mysticism in some pagan and Christian mystical writings: Plotinus, Proclus, Gregory of Nyssa and Pseudo-Dionysius", the Journal of Religion, 1996, 28-42. 27. "Some notes towards a study of the' solitary'