Nova PhDs

It is great to hear that the Berendzen tour of the country is going well! Any groupies yet?

On a different matter, friends, I have a suggestion/request. I love that we have this blog to keep our Villanova community together. I know that I am not the only one who is grateful for the education that I received from the Ph.D. program. Each of us has expressed and will continue to express this appreciation in different ways. I have an easy and concrete suggestion.

As you know, Dr. Walter Brogan brought Epoche to Villanova a couple of years ago. Epoche used to be housed in Utah and it was dormant at best. Walter has revived it and turned it into a wonderful journal of the history of philosophy. Each issue so far has been fantastic. There is a special issue on Derrida that will come out soon too. It makes the program look good.

In addition, a Villanova graduate student works with Walter on the journal every year, underlining the journal’s commitment to the professional development of the grad students as well as the importance of the journal to the program’s prestige and intellectual activity.

Villanova has thus far institutionally and financially supported Epoche, but as you all know even the best of journals compete for subscriptions.

I suggest that each of us who has been fortunate to have a job at a new institution ask the new library to subscribe to Epoche. American University, my new home, did not. It took a few seconds of sending an email to the librarian with the link and it was a done deal!

Please consider asking your libraries to promote Epoche. Thanks.