CURRICULUM VITAE

Kevin Thomas Miles, 320 South 19th Street, Richmond, IN 47374-4095

Philosophy Department

Carpenter Hall, 325A

 (765) 983-1684, mileske@earlham.edu

 

 

Academic Credentials:

·        Ph. D., Philosophy, 1998, DePaul University: Chicago, IL.

·        M.A., Philosophy, 1991, Villanova University: Villanova, PA. 

·        M.A., Religious Studies, 1986, Villanova University: Villanova, PA.

·        B.S., Theology, 1979,  Philadelphia Biblical University, Philadelphia, PA.

 

 

Professional Accomplishments, Honors, and Awards:

·        Fulbright Junior Lecturership, Erlangen, Germany 1999-2000

·        Lindback Minority Junior Faculty Research Award, 1998

(Re)Membering the Future/Dismembering the Past: Heimlich Maneuvers on History in Du Bois & Hegel.

·        Visiting Professor, Haverford College, 1997-1998

·        Faculty Summer Research Grant, Villanova University, 1998

·        Lindback Teaching Award, Honorable Mention, Villanova University, 1995

·        Arthur J. Schmitt Teaching Fellow, DePaul University, 1992

·        Arthur J Schmitt Graduate Scholar, DePaul University, 1991

 

 

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

·        “‘Between’ Epigraphs: Signifyin(g) Mousikē in The Souls of Black Folk.” Paper Presented at 100 Years of The Souls of Black Folk Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October 24-25, 2003.

·        The Language of Lynching: Bestial Rationality in the Political Animal: Morrison, Fanon, Foucault & West.  Paper Presented at Lynching & Racial Violence in America: Histories and Legacies Conference, Emory University, October 3-6, 2002.

·        Arendt’s Desegregation of Public Schools as a Politicization of the Private.  Invited Talk Presented at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, March 1, 2002.

·        The Future of Black Bodies in America: Naturalizing Female Citizens in Classical Athens.  Paper Presented at Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, April 27-28, 2001.

·        Attunement & the Turning Soul: Music and a race Theory in Plato’s Republic.  Paper Presented at the John Tich Faculty Colloquium, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, January 26, 2001.

·        Du Bois (Re)Sights Music in The Souls of Black Folk. Paper Presented at Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures Conference, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany, May 12, 2000.

·        An Exceptionally American Muse in The Souls of Black Folk. Paper Presented at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, February 14, 2000.

·        Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man, His Message & Its Present Meaning.  A Presentation made to Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany, January 24, 2000.

·        “Haunting Music in The Souls of Black Folk,” Boundary 2, edited by Ronald Judy.  Volume 27, Number 23, Fall 2000, pp. 199-214.

·        CAVING IN THE CONCEPT OF NATURAL SLAVERY: The Souls of Black Folk contra Aristotle & Hegel. Paper Presented at Miami University, Miami, Ohio, October 22, 1999.

·        Getting Over On Gaia: Fuvsical Husbandry & Proprietorial Language.  Paper Presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Hartford Connecticut, May 14, 1999.

·        The Color Line “Vor dem Tor”: Du Bois’ Faustian Ethics of Alienation.  Paper presented to Collegium for African American Research in Münster, Germany, March 18-21, 1999.

·        The Possibility for King’s Peace in Malcolm X.  Lecture delivered for the Dr. Martin

Luther King, Jr. Freedom School, Villanova University, January 20, 1999.

·        Reason, Rhetoric, and Revenge: Aristotle, Arendt, & Malcolm X on Violence.  Paper

presented to the John Tich Faculty Colloquium in the Department of Philosophy, Villanova University, May 1, 1998.

·        The Pandora Complex: The Femme Fatale in an Economy of Reflection.  Paper presented at the Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture Conference, Binghamton University, April 24, 1998.

·        M. L. King’s Philosophy of Nonviolence & the Question Concerning Malcolm X.  Participant in panel discussion, “A Season for Nonviolence: Reflections on the Global Significance of Nonviolence” with Arun Gandhi and Dr. Bernard Lafayette at Haverford College, February 25, 1998.

·        Martin Luther King’s Debt to W. E. B. Du Bois’ Debt to Hegel.  Published in The Owl of Minerva, 27:2 (Spring, 1996): 227-230.

 

 

 

Kevin Thomas Miles is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Earlham College.  His research interests are concerned with the political thought of classical Athens as well as contemporary discourses concerned with the politics of “race” and enfranchisement  Some of his published research includes “Haunting Music in The Souls of Black Folk” in Boundary 2,  “The Signs of Sex & Race” in Comparing Race and Sex, and “Martin Luther King’s Debt to W. E. B. Du Bois’ Debt to Hegel” in The Owl of Minerva..