CURRICULUM VITAE
Mark A. Tietjen
University of West Georgia
Philosophy Program
TLC 2250
1601 Maple Street
Carrollton, GA 30118
678-839-6294
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:
August 2011 – present Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of West Georgia
August 2006 – July 2011 Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of West Georgia
August 2004 – July 2006 Teaching Assistant, Baylor University
August 2002—July 2004 Research Assistant, Baylor University
EDUCATION:
August 2002 – July 2006 Baylor University
Ph.D., Philosophy; Dissertation: Kierkegaard’s Practice of Edification: Indirect Communication, the Virtues, and Christianity (director: Dr. Robert C. Roberts, Distinguished Professor of Ethics)
M.A., Philosophy
July 1998 – May 2002 Princeton Theological Seminary
Th.M., Philosophical Theology
M. Div.
August 1994 – May 1998 Palm Beach Atlantic University
B.S., summa cum laude, Suppers Honors Program
Major: Finance
Minor: Russian Studies
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Kierkegaard, Philosophy of Religion / Philosophical Theology
AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Ancient Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, World Religions
Publications:
I. Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
(forthcoming, winter 2012) with C. Stephen Evans, “Kierkegaard as a Christian Psychologist,” Journal of Psychology and Christianity.
“To Believe or Not to Believe: Toward a Hermeneutic of Trust,” International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Point of View, ed. Robert L. Perkins (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2010), 78-103.
“Kierkegaard and the Classical Virtue Tradition,” Faith and Philosophy 27:2 (April 2010), 153-73.
“Indirect Communication, and the Special Case of Christian Communication,” in Kierkegaard and Christianity (Acta Kierkegaardiana v.3), eds. A. Burgess, A. Khan, R. Králik, P. Šajda, and J. Turnbull (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 218-28.
“What The Book on Adler Can Teach about the Author and the Authorship,” in International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Book on Adler, ed. Robert L. Perkins (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2008), 97-120.
“Aristotle, Aquinas, and Kierkegaard on Prudence,” in International Kierkegaard Commentary: ‘Christian Discourses' and ‘The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress,’ ed. Robert L. Perkins (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007) 165-89.
“Doubts about Doubting: Kierkegaard’s Response to Skepticism in Works of Love,” Southwest Philosophy Review 21:2 (July 2005), 23-35.
“Being Anxious for Nothing: Heidegger and Kierkegaard on Anxiety,” Dialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau 47:2-3 (April 2005), 67-78.
“Motivation and Job Satisfaction,” Management Decision 36:4 (1998), 226-31.
II. Book Reviews
(forthcoming) Kierkegaard and Theology, by Murray Rae (T & T Clark), for Scottish Journal of Theology.
(forthcoming) Kierkegaard: Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode, by Sylvia Walsh (Oxford University Press), for Scottish Journal of Theology.
(forthcoming) Theology, Psychoanalysis, and Trauma, by Marcus Pound (SCM Press), in Review of Metaphysics
Invited review of proposed critical thinking textbook by Peg Tittle, Critical Thinking, Routledge Press (July 2008).
Invited review of proposed comparative religion textbook by Louis Vaughn, Anthology of World Religions, Oxford University Press (October – November 2006).
Mark Dooley, The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard’s Ethics of Responsibility (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2001), in Dialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau 46 (2-3), 121-23, April 2004.
Presentations:
“Kierkegaard, Philosophy, and Edification,” presented at The Society for Philosophy of Religion 2011 annual meeting (Hilton Head, SC, February 2011)
“Williams and Kierkegaard on Reductionism in Ethics,” presented at the Sixth International Kierkegaard Conference, “Why Kierkegaard Still Matters,” St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN, June 2010)
“To Believe or Not to Believe: Reading The Point of View,” presented on the Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture group panel at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting (Montreal, Canada, November 2009)
“Kierkegaard on Communication,” presented at the fall meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society (Decatur, GA, November 2008)
“Does Kierkegaard Have a Point of View?” presented on the main program at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (Pasadena, CA, March 2008)
“Kierkegaard and the Classical Virtue Tradition,” presented at the Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion (Atlanta, GA, March 2008)
“Blunt Readings of Kierkegaard,” presented at the spring meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society (Athens, GA, March 2007)
“Edification as a Philosophy of Pedagogy,” presented at the 28th Annual Association of Integrative Studies Conference (Atlanta, GA, October 2006)
“Doubts about Doubting: Kierkegaard’s Response to Skepticism in Works of Love (revised)”, presented at the Søren Kierkegaard Society meeting at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Chicago, IL, April 2006)
“Kierkegaard’s Bad News about Christian Love,” presented at the Pacific Regional meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Newberg, OR, April 2005)
“Love for the Other in Kierkegaard,” presented at Loyola University’s graduate philosophy conference (Chicago, IL, March 2005)
“Doubts about Doubting: Kierkegaard’s Response to Skepticism in Works of Love,” presented at the Eighth Annual Oxford Graduate Philosophy Conference (Oxford, England, November 2004).
“Earnestness and the Task of Existence,” presented at the Tenth Biennial BAPT (Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers) Meeting (Dallas, TX, October 2004)
“Rorty and Kierkegaard on the Nature of Human Finitude,” presented at the Pacific Regional meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers (La Mirada, CA, February 2004).
OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Comments on R. Zachary Manis, “Kierkegaard and Contemporary Philosophy,” Sixth International Kierkegaard Conference, “Why Kierkegaard Still Matters,” St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN, June 2010)
Work in Progress:
- The Eyes of Earnestness: Looking for Edification in Kierkegaard (book manuscript currently under review for Philosophy of Religion series, Indiana University Press)
COURSES TAUGHT:
- Logic
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Introduction to Philosophy: Studies in Irish Philosophy
- Introduction to Religion
- Introduction to Religion Honors
- Introduction to World Religions
- Critical Thinking
- Philosophy and Religion
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
- Religious Texts
- Philosophy of Religion
- World Religions
- Christian Thought
- Christian Thought: Studies in Irish Christianity
- Senior Seminar (Kierkegaard: The Danish Socrates)
- Independent Studies
o Jewish Philosophy
o Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge
Fellowships and Grants:
June 2010 Summer Fellow, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College,
Northfield, MN
January 2010 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA
November 2009 – Participant in Science for Ministry Initiative, John Templeton
present Foundation,
Princeton, NJ
June – July 2005 Summer Fellow, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College,
Northfield, MN
Professional Affiliations:
American Philosophical Association
American Academy of Religion
Søren Kierkegaard Society
Society of Christian Philosophers
Society for Philosophy of Religion
Professional References:
Dr. John Davenport Dr. Janet Donohoe
Associate Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy
Fordham University University of West Georgia
(212) 636-7928 (678) 839-4743
Davenport@fordham.edu JDonohoe@westga.edu
Dr. C. Stephen Evans Dr. Robert L. Perkins
University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Senior Research Professor of Philosophy
Baylor University Stetson University
(254) 710-6363 (386) 734-6457
C_Stephen_Evans@baylor.edu rperkins6@cfl.rr.com
Dr. Robert C. Roberts Dr. Sylvia Walsh
Distinguished Professor of Ethics Scholar in Residence
Baylor University Stetson University
(254) 710-3368 (386) 734-6457
Robert_Roberts@baylor.edu sperkins6@cfl.rr.com