Brian Treanor

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Brian Treanor

Dr. Brian Treanor is currently the Casassa Chair in Social Values, Professor of Philosophy in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, and the Academic Director of the Academy of Catholic Thought & Imagination at Loyola Marymount University (founded in April 2014).^[1] He received his Ph.D. from Boston College where he studied with Richard Kearney & Jacques Taminiaux.^[2] Dr. Treanor’s work takes its cue from the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, but remains consciously interdisciplinary by engaging theology, literature, poetry, psychology, ecology, and other disciplines.

Early life[]

Brian Treanor was born in California. He completed his undergraduate degree in Political Science at UCLA and attended both CSU, Long Beach and Boston College for his graduate work.

Research[]

Treanor's research is in the area of philosophical hermeneutics. With significant focus on environmental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and ethics. He is the author or editor of six books:

• Carnal Hermeneutics, co-edited with Richard Kearney (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015).
• Being in Creation: Human Responsibility in an Endangered World, co-edited with Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015).
• Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2014).
• Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, co-edited with Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013).
• A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur, co-edited with Henry Isaac Venema (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010).
• Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel and the Contemporary Debate (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006).

He has also written numerous article related to his field.^[3] A full list can be found at http://faculty.lmu.edu/briantreanor/cv-2/

Teaching & Administrative Work[]

Treanor is a committed advocate for liberal arts education.^[4][5] He as worked regularly in LMU's core curriculum, including founding a Great Books Learning Community. Twice, he has been honored by the Associated Students of LMU as Teacher of the Year and, in 2011, was given the President’s Fritz B. Burns Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor. He was the founding director of the Environmental Studies program, and the founding director of the Academy of Catholic Thought and Imagination.

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