Dr. Amanda Lewis Printz
CURRICULUM VITAE
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Early Modern Philosophy, History of Philosophy
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Ancient Philosophy (esp. Aristotle and Plato), Ancient Greek, Philosophy of Mathematics (Euclid through Newton), Philosophy of Science (Theophrastus through Darwin), Political Philosophy, 15th-18th century Literature.
EMPLOYMENT
2012 Part Time Faculty
University of West Georgia
2012 Part Time Faculty
Oglethorpe University
2007-2012 Assistant Professor (“Tutor”)
St. John’s College, Annapolis
EDUCATION
May 2007 University of Southern California
PH.D. in Philosophy
May 1999 Guilford College
B.A. in Philosophy, with honors
RELATED EDUCATION
2004 College Reading and Learning Association
CRLA certification to teach and tutor students
With learning differences
1997 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Study Abroad in Judaic Philosophy
DISSERTATION
Title: The Scope and Significance of George Berkeley’s Language Model of Nature
Committee: Gideon Yaffe (chair), Edwin McCann, James Van Cleve, Zlatan Damnjanovic, Arnold Heidseick (German Literature and Philosophy)
I investigate the scope and significance of George Berkeley’s (1685-1753) language model, and argue that he uses the model as a pedagogical device as well as an investigative tool to derive many of his substantive philosophical claims. More specifically, Berkeley’s investigative use of the language model grounds and justifies several of his claims with regard to the existence of God, optics, perception, the aims of science, and the nature of sensible objects.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Summer 2011 Mellon Foundation Summer Study Fellowship
August Wilson, The Pittsburgh Plays
Summer 2010 Mellon Foundation Summer Study Fellowship
Cervantes, Don Quixote
2009-2010 Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Faculty Development
This fellowship allowed me to study and engage in
inquiry outside my field of expertise. I researched the
development of astronomy and the origins of algebra.
(Authors studied: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Euclid,
Apollonius, Viete, Descartes)
Summer 2009 Mellon Foundation Summer Study Fellowship
Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding
Summer 2009 Mellon Foundation Summer Study Fellowship
Elizabeth Bishop, Collected Poems
Summer 2008 Mellon Foundation Summer Study Fellowship
Virgil, Aeneid
2006-2007 Anna Bing Humanities Research Fellowship
University of Southern California
2006-2007 Graduate and Professional Student Senate
Appreciation Award
University of Southern California
2005-2007 Graduate Student in Residence Advocacy Fellowship
University of Southern California
2005-2006 Strategic Theme Research Fellowship
University of Southern California
2005-2006 Graduate and Professional Student Senate
Appreciation Award
University of Southern California
2004 Outstanding Commitment to the Academic Success
of Student Athletes Award
University of Southern California
2003 Excellence in Teaching/Outstanding Teaching
Assistant Award
University of Southern California
2003 Flewelling Research Award
University of Southern California
2002 Excellence in Teaching/Outstanding Teaching
Assistant Award
University of Southern California
2000-2005 University Merit Fellowship
University of Southern California
1995-1999 C.Thomas Powell Award for Excellence in Philosophy
Guilford College
PUBLICATIONS
“Free Markets and Feminism”, WFN, Volume 7, Number 1, Januray/Februray 2000.
“All About Love: The New Vision of poet bell hooks”, WFN, Volume 7, Number 2, March/April 2000.
“Mentoring and the Graduate Student Experience”, University of Southern California, July 2006.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Associate Editor. Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, 4th edition, web version, 1999.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
April 2010 “Plato’s Hipparchus,” Plato in the Springtime,
St. John’s College.
Feb. 2010 “Elizabeth Bishop’s The Moose,” Women in the
Winter, St. John’s College.
Nov. 2010 “Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra,” Shakespeare in
The Fall, St. John’s College.
Feb, 2009 “Reading Mary Shelley’s Mortal Immortal,” Women in the
Winter, St. John’s College.
2008-2009 “George Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge in Twelve
Talks,” St. John’s College.
Oct. 2006 “Berkeley’s Pragmatism and the Investigative Role of Figurative Language and Metaphor,” University of Southern California.
Aug. 2006 “What to Expect from the Relationship with Your Ph.D. Faculty Mentor,” University of Southern California.
Jan. 2006 “Pedagogical Style and Teaching at a Research University,” University of Southern California.
Mar. 2004 “Pursuing Philosophy,” California State/Northridge.
Sept.2000 “Austrian Economics and its Philosophic Roots,” Guilford College.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Spr.2010 Seminar Leader, Anton Chekov’s Gooseberries, Joint
Naval Academy-St. John’s Seminar Series,
St. John’s College.
2009-2010 Seminar Leader, William James’ Briefer Course in
Psychology, St. John’s College.
Sum. 2010 Seminar Leader, Plato’s Phaedrus, Continuing Education Seminar Series, St. John’s College.
Fall 2009 Seminar Leader, Sartre’s Existentialism as a Humanism,
Great Issues Seminar Series, St. John’s College.
Fall 2009 Seminar Leader, Plato’s Apology, Seminar Series,
St. John’s College.
Spr. 2009 Seminar Leader, Translating Epictetus,
St. John’s College.
Fall 2008 Seminar Leader, Plato’s Meno, Seminar Series,
St. John’s College.
Spr.2008 Seminar Leader, Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War, Big
Questions Seminar Series, St. John’s College.
Fall 2007 Seminar Leader, Plato’s Republic (Book 1), Seminar Series,
St. John’s College.
Spr. 2004 Session Chair, “Aristotelian Science,” American Philosophical Association, Pasadena, California.
RESEARCH POSITIONS
Fall 2005 Research Assistant for Professor Sharon Lloyd
(Hobbes, Leviathan)
University of Southern California
2003-2005 Research Assistant for Professor Frank Lewis
(Aristotle)
University of Southern California
1999-2000 Resident Scholar and Publications Staff
Ludwig Von Mises Institute
1998-1999 Research Assistant for Professor Jonathan Malino
(Spinoza, Ethics)
Guilford College
COURSES TAUGHT
*The courses listed below are courses I have taught as an assistant
professor (“tutor”) at St. John’s College. Because we have a set,
Great Books curriculum, I have listed the titles of the courses
taught, which are not particularly informative, along with the texts
read in each course.
2011-2012
Sophmore Language
Translating Sophocles, Antigone from the original Greek; Aristotle, Prior
Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Categories, Rhetoric; Shakespeare, Sonnets, King Lear,
Titus Andronicus; Logic (SJC Manual); An Introduction to English Lyric Poetry
(SJC Manual)
Freshman Laboratory
Theophrastus, An Inquiry Concerning Plants; Aristotle, Parts of Animals,
On the Soul, Categories; Notes on Galen’s Physiology; Harvey, On the
Movement of the Heart; Virchow, Two Lectures on Cellular Biology;
Driesch, The Science and Philosophy of the Organism; Spemann,
Embryonic Development and Induction, Croonian Lecture; Goethe,
Metamorphosis of Plants; Patten, Early Embryology of the Chick; Straus,
The Upright Posture; Archimedes, On the Equilibrium of Planes, On
Floating Bodies; Pascal, A Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids, Treatise
On the Weight of Air; Mariotte, Relations of Pressure and Volume of Air;
Fahrenheit, The Fahrenheit Scale; Black, Lectures on the Elements of
Chemistry; Gay-Lussac, Investigations on the Expansion of Gases and
Vapors, The Absolute Scale of Temperature, Determination of Absolute
Zero, Is Heat a Euclidean Magnitude?; Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry;
Avogrado, Remarks on the Molecule; Cannizzaro, Lectures; Mendeleev,
Lectures
Sophomore Seminar
Bible (Old and New Testaments); Lucretius, De Rerum Natura; Virgil,
Aeneid; Plutarch, Lives; Tacitus, Annals; Epictetus, Discourses and
Handbook; Plotinus, The Descent of the Soul, The Good and the One,
The Three Primal Hypostases, Contemplation; Augustine, Confessions;
Anselm, Proslogium; Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selected questions);
Dante, Divine Comedy; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Shakespeare, As You
Like It, Richard II, Henry IV, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The
Tempest; Montaigne, Essays; Machiavelli, The Prince, Discourses on Livy;
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion; J.S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion;
Bacon, Novum Organum; Descartes, Discourse on Method
2010-2011
Sophomore Language:
See Above
Sophomore Mathematics:
Ptolemy, Almagest; Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly
Spheres; Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and The
Harmonies of the World; Apollonius, On Conic Sections; Viete, The
Analytic Art; Descartes, Geometry
Junior Seminar:
Cervantes, Don Quixote; Descartes, Meditations; Pascal, Pensees
Milton, Paradise Lost; Hobbes, Leviathan; Spinoza, Theologico-
Political Treatise; Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics, New System of
Nature, On the Ultimate Origination of Things, On Nature Itself, Primary
Truths, Principles of Nature and Grace, Monadology, Letter to Clarke:
Third Paper; Eliot, Middlemarch; Hume, Treatise of Human Nature; Kant,
Critique of Pure Reason,; Locke, Second Treatise of Government; Austen,
Pride and Prejudice; Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, The
Social Contract; Moliere, The Misanthrope; Mozart, Don Giovanni; Kant,
Foundations of Metaphysics of Morals; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Smith,
Wealth of Nations; Madion, Hamilton, Jay, The Federalist Papers;
Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, U.S.
Constitution; Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Preceptorial:
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
2009-2010
(Reduced course load for being awarded Mellon Foundation Fellowship)
Freshman Language:
Ancient Greek Manual by Mollin and Williamson. We also translated
large portions of the following texts from the original Greek: Aristotle,
Politics, Metaphysics, Physics; Plato, Republic, Meno; Heraclitus,
Fragments
Junior Seminar:
See Above
Preceptorial:
George Berkeley, The New Theory of Vision, The New Theory of Vision
Vindicated and Explained, The Principles of Human Knowledge
2008-2009
Freshman Language:
See Above
Freshman Mathematics:
Euclid, Elements; Ptolemy, Almagest
Sophomore Seminar:
See Above
2007-2008
Freshman Mathematics:
See Above
Freshman Laboratory:
See Above
Freshman Seminar:
Homer, Iliad, Odyssey; Plato, Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito,
Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus;
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides; Plutarch, Lives
(Lycurgus and Solon); Herodotus, History; Aristophanes, Clouds, The
Frogs; Thucydides, Peloponnesian War; Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics,
Politics, Physics, Metaphysics, Poetics, On the Soul; Sophocles, Oedipus
Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes; Euripides,
Hippolytus, The Bacchae
OTHER TEACHING POSITIONS
Sum. 2005 Instructor. Introduction to Logic
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
Sum. 2005 Instructor. Principles of Reasoning and Critical Thinking
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
2004-2005 Tutor. Philosophy, Writing, Political Science
Student Athlete Academic Services
University of Southern California
Sum. 2003 Instructor. “Teaching Science Using Indigenous Materials”
Foundation for the Development of Needy Communities
Buburabi, Uganda
Spr. 2003 Teaching Assistant. “Why Be Loyal to Your Government?”
Thematic Options Honors Program
University of Southern California
F2001-F02 Teaching Assistant. Contemporary Moral and Social Issues
University of Southern California
F2000-Sp01 Teaching Assistant. Philosophy of Mind and Self.
University of Southern California
1994-1995 Teaching Assistant. Ethics
Guilford College
RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005-2006 Selected Participant. “Pedagogical Learning Community”
Center for Excellence in Teaching
University of Southern California
2005-2006 Selected Participant. “The Future Professoriate”
Center for Excellence in Teaching
University of Southern California
2003-2005 Graduate Student Teaching Mentor
Center for Excellence in Teaching
University of Southern California
2002-2003 Director. The Philosophy Graduate Student Teaching Workshop
Department of Philosophy
University of Southern California
2001-2002 Participant. The Philosophy Graduate Student Teaching Workshop
Department of Philosophy
University of Southern California
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2010-2012 Technology Services Committee
St.John’s College
2008-2010 Concert Committee
St. Johns College
2008-2009 Hodson Internship Committee
St. John’s College
2005-2007 Selected Member. Graduate Student Services Consortium
University of Southern California
2005-2007 Selected Member. Provost Graduate Student Advisory Committee
University of Southern California
2005-2007 Graduate Student in Residence
The Graduate School
University of Southern California
2005-2007 Ex-Officio Executive Board Member
Graduate and Professional Student Senate
University of Southern California
2004 Internal/External Review Preparation Committee
Department of Philosophy, University Southern California
2003-2004 Special Projects Coordinator
Department of Philosophy
University of Southern California
2002 Philosophy Graduate Student-Faculty Liaison
Department of Philosophy
University of Southern California
2002-2006 Philosophy Graduate Student Representative
Undergraduate Major/Minor Fairs
University of Southern California
2001-2002 Philosophy Graduate Student Senator
Graduate and Professional Student Senate
University of Southern California
CURRENT PROJECTS
A Collection of Poems (Untitled)
"Birds Can't Talk", A Collection of Short Stories
“According to George Berkeley, Why Ought a Person Study
Speculative Mathematics?”
“Using Virgil’s Aeneid as a Thread through the Labyrinth of Cervantes’
Don Quixote”
“Is Ptolemaic Astronomy Aristotelian or Not?”
REFERENCES
Michael Grenke, Tutor, St. John’s College. Michael.grenke@sjca.edu
Daniel Harrell, Tutor, St. John’s College. Daniel.Harrell@sjca.edu
Pamela Kraus, Dean/Tutor, St. John’s College. Pamela.Kraus@sjca.edu