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Continental Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, Environmental/Ecological Philosophy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Literature, American Modernism, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Heidegger, Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Bergson, Hume
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Employment (5)

University of St. Francis: Joliet, Illinois, US

2024-08-01 to present | Professor (English and Foreign Languages)
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

University of St. Francis: Joliet, Illinois, US

2023-06-01 to present | Department Chair (English and Foreign Languages)
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

University of St. Francis: Joliet, Illinois, US

2018-08-15 to 2024-08-01 | Associate Professor (English and Foreign Languages)
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

University of St. Francis: Joliet, Illinois, US

2018-06-01 to 2022-05-30 | Department Chair (English and Foreign Languages)
Employment
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

University of St. Francis: Joliet, Illinois, US

2012-08-01 to 2018-05-30 | Assistant Professor (English and Foreign Languages)
Employment
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Illinois at Chicago: Chicago, IL, US

2005-08-15 to 2010-06-01 | Ph.D. (English)
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Northern Michigan University: Marquette, MI, US

2003-08-15 to 2005-05-15 | MA (English)
Education
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

University of St. Francis: Joliet, Illinois, US

2001-08-15 to 2003-05-31 | BA (Liberal Studies)
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Professional activities (1)

M/MLA: Milwaukee, WI, US

2013-11-09 to 2013-11-11 | Conference Organizer (Art and Artifice in Young Adult Literature)
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Funding (2)

Reframing the Institutional Saga

2021 to 2023 | Grant
Council of Independent Colleges (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US)
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Ensuring Writing Competency in Graduates

2021 to 2022 | Award
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (Jacksonville, Florida, US)
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Works (30)

Jig on the Border: The World and Time of the Simile

The Hemingway Review
2024 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: William Douglas Mastin; Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

"Theater and Humor in Hemingway’s ‘The Killers’"

20th Biennial International Hemingway Conference
2024-07-18 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: William Douglas Mastin; Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

“‘Only’ is a bad habit…”: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Utilization of Philosophical Motifs and Issues of Gender in “Head and Shoulders”

Womens' Studies
2024-07-03 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Makenzie Hope Munson; Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

“Everything matters, Junior. Why don’t you get that?”: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Ron Currie, Jr.’s Everything Matters!

ContactZone
2023-12 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: MaKenzie Hope Munson; Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

"Holmes, That's Some Santa Claus Shit": Reading Lydia Millet's A Children's Bible as Ecological Crime Fiction

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology
2023-10-20 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Contributors: MaKenzie Hope Munson; Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

The AI Computer as Therapist: Using Lacan to Read AI and (All-Too-Human) Subjectivities in Science Fiction Stories by Bruce Sterling and Naomi Kritzer

Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
2020 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Revolutionary Tenderness: Ecological Philosophy through Continental and Catholic Lenses

AFCU Journal
2019 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

L’extermination de tout Symbolisme des Cieux: Reading the Lacanian Letter as Inhuman ‘Apparatus’ and Its Implications for Ecological Thinking

Lacan and the Nonhuman
2018 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Part of ISBN: 9783319638164
Part of ISBN: 9783319638171
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Poeticizing Ecology/Ecologizing Poetry: Reading Emily Bishop’s "Poem" Ecologically.

Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy
2018-06-13 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer; Beth McDermott
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

To Speak in the Name of the Void: Using Franciscan Paupertas to Guide a Rethinking of the Connection between Poetry and Philosophy

2018-06-06 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein: Expression, Emotion, and Art Henry W. Pickford

The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
2017-06 | Book review | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Thresholds 8 and 9: Modernity and the Future, USF Foundations Summer Institute

2016 | Lecture/speech | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Using Poetry to Make First-Year Seminars More Effective

ACCA Coference
2016-11-12 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Elizabeth McDermott; Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

“Leading Ecologically: A Franciscan Object-Oriented Ontological (OOO) Call for an Ecology of Tenderness

AFCU Conference
2016-06-10 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Poeticizing Ecology/Ecologizing Poetry: Reading Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Poem’ Ecologically

University of Arizona Conference in Environmental Humanities
2016-04-01 | Conference paper
Contributors: Elizabeth McDermott; Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

“Of World-Making: Science, Language, Art in Lev Grossman’s The Magicians

Midwest Modern Language Association
2015-11-12 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Spool, Thread, or Snake: The Rhetoric of the Textual Self in Thomas Middleton’s The Revengers Tragedy"Medieval and Renaissance Forum

Medieval and Renaissance Forum
2015-04-24 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

“Mismatched Pairs: Of Shoes and Sex in Plato and Dekker”

Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (NPCBEBL)
2015-04-11 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

On Preparing to see Shakespeare’s King Lear

2014-10-15 | Lecture/speech | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

The Ethics of Sustainability

2014-04-13 | Lecture/speech | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

“Bonaventure’s reductio and the Singularity of the Other in Levinas and Derrida”

MAMA
2014-02-27 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Distorted Echoes and Rash Promises: Chaucer and the Contretemps-traps of the Name

ACLA
2013-04-05 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Of Dikē and Death: The Role of Schelling in Adjudicating between Heidegger and Derrida on Justice

2012 | Journal article
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Kevin Andrew Spicer via MLA International Bibliography

Lecture and Discussion of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure for Dr. John Bowers’s ENGL 372 Shakespeare Course

2012-11-17 | Lecture/speech | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Debts and the Oath: Bacigalupi’s Shipbreaker and Agamben’s Archaeology of the Oath

Midwest Modern Lanuguage Association
2012-11-09 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Introduction and discussion of Duck Soup

2012-10-11 | Lecture/speech | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Lecture and Discussion on the work of Machiavelli

2012-10-08 | Lecture/speech | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Expectations for Reading at the College Level: How to Notice What You See

2012-09-13 | Lecture/speech | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

"Medieval Badiou," or A Weird Configuration: Ockham, Mathematical Logic, and a Single Sentence from Being and Event

International Congress on Medieval Studies
2011-05-11 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer

Sum moribundus: Prolegomenal Forays into the Realm of Despair

2010 | Dissertation/Thesis | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Kevin Andrew Spicer
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Kevin Andrew Spicer