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 2006 – present Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of West Georgia
August 2002 – July 2006 Graduate 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)
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
Publications:
I. Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
“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.
(forthcoming) “Kierkegaard and the Classical Virtue Tradition,” Faith and Philosophy.
(under review) “To Believe or Not to Believe: Toward a Hermeneutic of Trust,” International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Point of View.
II. Book Reviews
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 (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2001), in Dialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau 46(2-3), 121-23, April 2004.
Presentations:
“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 before the Søren Kierkegaard Society meeting at the Central APA (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).
Works in Progress:
Articles
- In the Service of Edification: Literature and Philosophy in Kierkegaard
Book manuscript
- Kierkegaard’s Practice of Edification
COURSES TAUGHT:
- Logic
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Introduction to Religion
- Critical Thinking
- Philosophy and Religion
- Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
- Religious Texts
- Philosophy of Religion
- World Religions
- Christian Thought
- Senior Seminar (Kierkegaard: The Danish Socrates)
Fellowships and Grants:
June – July 2005 Summer Fellow at the 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. C. Stephen Evans Dr. Robert C. Roberts, director
Baylor University Baylor University
(254) 710-6363 (254) 710-3368
C_Stephen_Evans@baylor.edu Robert_Roberts@baylor.edu
Dr. John Davenport Dr. Janet Donohoe
Baylor University University of West Georgia
(254) 710-4403 (678) 839-4743