We’re all very excited to hear Dr. Crider and Dr. Stryer speak this Friday, 11/13.  See you all there!

Until then,

Paul, Ruth Anne, Katie, and Jason

Dr. Scott Crider is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Dallas.  His research interests include the English Renaissance, the rhetorical tradition (Ancient and Modern), and the history and character of liberal education.  He is author of The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay, and is currently completing a book on Shakespeare’s Ethics of Rhetoric and a book on Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

Dr. Steven Stryer is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Dallas.  His research interests include Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, Eighteenth-century prose and poetry, and the essay.  His dissertation is The Past/Present Topos in Eighteenth-Century English Literature: A Pattern of Historical Thought and its Stylistic Implications in Historiography, Poetry, and Polemic (2006).

Dr. David Oliver Davies is Assistant Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Dallas.  His most recent publication is “Eve’s First Words: Ovidian Wit, Platonic Self-knowledge and Milton’s Translations in Paradise Lost 4.440-491″. Classical and Modern Literature Vol. 27 No. 2 (Winter 2008).  He is presently at work on a book on the rational endowment of the human pair in Paradise Lost.  

Be sure to join us on March 20, when Dr. Davies will lecture on Homer’s Odyssey.

Available Readings:

King Lear (full text online)

King Lear (purchase on Amazon.com)

Renaissance drama resources on luminarium.org 

Dr. Leo Paul de Alvarez is Professor and Graduate Program Director of Politics at the University of Dallas.  His research interests are Thucydides, Politics & the Bible, Shakespeare, Aristotle & Plato, and Machiavelli.  In addition to numerous scholarly articles, he is author of The Machiavellian Enterprise: A Commentary on The Prince.

King Lear (full text online)

King Lear (purchase on Amazon.com)

Renaissance drama resources on luminarium.org

Dr. Louise S. Cowan has devoted her professional life to the study and teaching of literature and to the creation of institutions of liberal education. In 1991, President George Bush bestowed upon Dr. Cowan the nation’s highest award for achievement in the humanities, the Charles Frankel Prize. Dr. Cowan’s dedication to the University of Dallas resides at the heart of her long career in education. Beginning in 1959, she and her husband Dr. Donald Cowan, worked to transform a diocesan college of modest ambitions into one of the most prestigious Catholic universities in the nation. As chair of the English Department and later as dean of the Braniff Graduate School, she devised a curriculum, with literature at its center and classic texts as its primary content, that is still in place today and acclaimed for its advancement of learning in the tradition of liberal education. Throughout the years, her wide-ranging literary interests have included Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, and many other writers both ancient and modern. Dr. Cowan has written or edited several books and is the author of numerous articles on literature and culture. She is the recipient of many awards and honors in Dallas and throughout the nation for her contributions to education and her excellence in teaching, most recently as a Laura Bush honoree in October, 2001, for the establishment of The Teachers Institute at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.

If you missed the salon, or if you would like to revisit the discussion, a recording is available to download, courtesy of Dr. Dupree.

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Excerpts from Locke’s Writings on Natural Law & Natural Rights

Dr. Thomas West is Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas, where he has taught since 1974. He is also a Director and Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, which has generously supported and publicized his research. Born in 1945, Dr. West received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University in 1974. He served in Vietnam as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1969-70. He was Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage Foundation in 1988-89, and Salvatori Visiting Scholar at Claremont McKenna College from 1990-92.

Dr. Steven Forde is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas.  He is winner of the American Political Science Association’s Leo Strauss Prize for the Best Dissertation in Political Theory (1986).  He is author of The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides and of articles in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and International Studies Quarterly. He specializes in classical and American political thought and international ethics.