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Kirk reports from the trenches
Greetings all. I'm at Villanova for the next few years straddling the ethics program and the philosophy department. Finished up the PhD Spring of 04, setting a sweet record of a smooth decade as the longest finish so far (though Ed insists he is working on his dissertation and plans to finish). Just got happily married.

Many personnel changes here:

Finally hired someone to replace Maria Carl: Mike Waddell. Does Aquinas stuff. Very energetic teacher.

Finally hired an Augustine scholar to replace Don Burt: James Wetzel. Don't know a thing about him.

Hired a new Cook Chair following last year's departure of Jack Caputo: William Desmond. Hegel with a post-modern twist.

Much hiring in the pipeline (Kant, Environmental, Senior Continental to name a few).

New Department Chair is John Carvahlo.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions about how things are going here. Enjoyed reading through the posts (one caveat: can we make a rule banning "y'all"?).
Posted by Timothy Kirk on Tuesday August 23, 2005 at 4:02pm
John Whitmire:
hi tim, glad you've joined us! so are you planning on sending out apps. for any tenure-track job positions elsewhere this year, or staying around nova for a while longer?

congratulations on the marriage!

and thanks for updating us on all the news around the department, but i could certainly never go along with a rule banning "y'all," especially now that i'm safely back home in dixie! :)
8.23.2005 5:21pm
Farhang Erfani (mail):
Tim,

Congrats on the weeding. I have been thinking about you and was hoping to hear that all went well. I wish you the very best (and second your call on banning 'yall')
8.23.2005 10:45pm
James K.A. Smith (mail) (www):
Thanks for the update, Tim. And congrats on marital bliss. (Deanna and I just returned from a weekend--sans enfants!--in celebration of our 15th wedding anniversary.)

Sounds like a couple of decent hires at VU: Desmond is a stud, and Wetzel has does good stuff, though more along 'analytic' lines (not that there's anything wrong with that!).

Jamie
8.24.2005 12:14am
J.C. Berendzen:
For the sake of completeness, it should perhaps be noted that the Waddell fellow was hired to replace John Tomarchio (still a couple years after the fact), Tomarchio having replaced Carl.

Any news on what they are going to do to actually fill that senior continental position this time?
8.24.2005 9:17pm
John Whitmire:
i have no news on that senior continental position, but i did talk to liz via email and asked her to keep me on the grad student email list so we could stay in the loop. she said that they are going to be updating the PGSU web page sometime soon, and that they are also going to be asking walter and john c. about revamping the villanova philosophy website generally. the two of us agreed that there needs to be a nicer interface, and i also noted that i thought our placement info. needs to be front-and-center. i think she'll push them on that stuf, which is good.
8.24.2005 11:56pm
James K.A. Smith (mail) (www):
I'm curious: if our group constituted the search committee, who would be on the wish list for that senior continental position? Thoughts?
8.25.2005 12:29pm
Farhang Erfani (mail):
That's a good question. Given the history of nova and its recent turned-down offers, there could be a wishful-thinking-list and a more realistic one. In either case, we need someone of a certain name and fame but not very old; someone who would direct dissertations for more than a couple of years. Max Pensky was one such figure that we came very close to getting. Len Lawler was a fantastic name that we again almost landed. I would have Bernasconi, Critchley and Kearney on the wishful-thinking-list and have Lawler (I think he may still be convinced), Michael Nass, John Protevi, Eduardo Mendieta, Jim Risser, Angelica Nuzzo, Rick Lee, Tina Chanter, Kelly Oliver, for instance, on the more feasible list. There is no one common denominator among the interests of these folks but they're all very good philosophers who would add so much to Nova.
8.25.2005 3:15pm
James K.A. Smith (mail) (www):
Interesting to hear about the "almost" folks; I've been out of the loop and didn't know about these (and would be interested to know more about past attempts, if anyone has info).

I would suggest a couple of good Husserl scholars: Anthony Steinbock or Natalie Depraz.
8.25.2005 4:36pm