Curriculum Vitae
John Douglas Macready
Doctoral Student of Philosophy
University of Dallas
Academic History
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
- Ph.D. in Philosophy, anticipated 2014
- M.A. in Philosophy, May 2011
North Central University, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- B.A. in Christian Education, cum laude, May 2001
Teaching Experience
University of Dallas, Center for Entrepreneurship
- Mining Your Past for Assets, (Prisoner Outreach Program – Spring 2008)
- Mining Your Past for Assets (Prisoner Outreach Program – Fall 2008)
- Rebranding the Brand Called You (Prisoner Outreach Program – Spring 2009)
- Rebranding the Brand Called You (Prisoner Outreach Program – Summer 2009)
- Rebranding the Brand Called You (Prisoner Outreach Program – Fall 2009)
- Rebranding the Brand Called You (Prisoner Outreach Program – Spring 2010)
- Rebranding the Brand Called You (Prisoner Outreach Program – Summer 2010)
- Rebranding the Brand Called You (Prisoner Outreach Program – Fall 2010)
- Rebranding the Brand Called You (Prisoner Outreach Program – Spring 2011)
- Rebranding the Brand Called You (Prisoner Outreach Program – Summer 2011)
- Rebranding the Brand Called You (Prisoner Outreach Program – Fall 2011)
University of Dallas, Humanities Department
- HUM 5300/6330 – Recent World (Guest Lecturer – Spring 2010)
University of Dallas, Philosophy Department
- PHI 1301-06 – Philosophy & the Ethical Life (Fall 2011)
- PHI 1301-07 – Philosophy & the Ethical Life (Spring 2012)
- PHI 2323-02 – Philosophy of Man (Fall 2012)
- PHI 2323-03 – Philosophy of Man (Fall 2012)
University of Dallas, English Department
- Writing Lab – Tutor (Spring 2011-Present)
Academic Experience
Ramify: The Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts
- Editorial Board (Fall 2010-present)
Languages Studied
- Greek
- Latin
- Hebrew
- Spanish
- German
Scholarships & Awards
Braniff Scholarship
University of Dallas, 2007-Present
McDermott Fellowship, 2010-2011
McDermott Fellowship, 2011-2012
Grants
NEH Grant, summer seminar on, “The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt: The Problem of Evil and the Origins of Totalitarianism,” June 23-July28, 2012: held at Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY.
Presentations & Published Work
Presentations
University of Chester, “Holocaust Representation Since 1975”
“Rupture and Redemption: A Levinasian Analysis of The Reader“
Date: September 2009
University of Dallas, “Fall Philosophy Colloquium”
“Why We Like Movies About Cyborgs and Superheroes “
Date: September 2009
University of Dallas, “Institute of Philosophic Studies Spring Colloquium”
“Plato’s Revenge: Reading the Republic with Hannah Arendt “
Date: February 2010
University of Dallas, HUM 5300/6330 Recent World
“Cinema of Transgression: The Films of Pedro Almodovar”
Date: February 2010
The 34th Annual National Council for Black Studies
“The Ethical Image: The African-American Experience and the Ethical Dimension of Film “
Date: March 2010
The 43rd Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association
“Perverts and Prosthetics: Ethics and the Technology of Representation in Cinema”
Date: April 2010
University of Dallas, “Institute of Philosophic Studies Spring Colloquium”
“Eichmann in Inferno: An Examination of Conscience in Dante’s Commedia “
Date: February 2011
Texas A&M, North American Levinas Society, “Totality & Infinity at 50″
“How to Watch Film: Sam Girgus’s Ethical Paideia for Cinema“
Date: May 2011
University of Dallas, “Fall Philosophy Colloquium”
“Is the Sho’ah Unique?“
Date: November 2011
University of Dallas, “Institute of Philosophic Studies Spring Colloquium”
“Beyond the lex talionis: Crime and Punishment in Hegel“
Date: February 2012
University of Alaska Anchorage, North American Levinas Society, “Levinas, the Environment, and Cultures of Place”
“The Savage Lens and Invisible Subjectivities: Levinas and Arendt on the Representation of Indigenous People in Film“
Date: May 2012
Articles
“A Difficult Redemption: Facing the Other in Woody Allen’s Exilic Period“ in A Companion to Woody Allen, edited by Peter J. Bailey and Sam Girgus. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell (Forthcoming January 2013).
Book Reviews
Professional Societies & Associations
Dallas Area Seminar on European Inquiry (DASEIN)
North American Levinas Society (NALS)
North Texas Philosophical Association (NTPA)
Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
Research Interests
20th Century German Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Film, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Race, Shoah Studies, Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, Emmanuel Levinas, Walter Benjamin
Graduate Work
Ancient Philosophy
Medieval Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
Recent Philosophy
The Scholastic Tradition
Philosophy of Imagination
Philosophy of Anthropology
Phenomenology of the Other
Plato’s Republic and Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics
Philosophy of Technology
Reflections on the Shoah (not taken for credit)
Kant’s Critique of Judgment
Augustine’s City of God and Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of History
Film, Fantasy & Dreams (not taken for credit)
Hannah Arendt: The Life of the Mind (Directed Reading)
German for Reading Knowledge
Dante’s The Divine Comedy and Milton’s Paradise Lost
Classical Rhetoric (not taken for credit)
Martin Heidegger: Being and Time
Hobbe’s Leviathan and Rousseau’s The First and Second Discourses
Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Hegel, Dostoyevsky Nietzsche
Bernard Stiegler: Technics and Time (Directed Reading)
Homer and Vergil
Johannine Literature
Intro to German Literature (not taken for credit)
