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Allen Dunn

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Department of Philosophy 802 McClung Tower Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0480
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Allen Dunn

Professor & Department Head

My research has been broadly interdisciplinary and focused primarily on literary criticism and theory with special attention to ethics and aesthetics.  For ten years, I was editor of Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal.  Before becoming head of the Philosophy Department, I served as head of the English Department where I was originally tenured.

Education

I received my B.A. from UCLA and my Ph.D. from The University of Washington.

Research

My research is interdisciplinary and addresses questions of political, ethical, and aesthetic value in the humanities and social sciences.

Publications

Books:

The Limits of Literary History. Co-editor with Tom Haddox. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2012.

Literary Aesthetics: An Anthology. With Alan Singer. London: Basil Blackwell, 2000.

Articles:

  • “Other Voices: The Concept of Heteroglossia in Michael Brown’s the Social,” In The Centrality of Sociality: Responses to Michael Brown’s The Concept of the  Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Ed by Jeffrey A. Halley and Harry F. Dahms: Emerald Publishing,
  • “The Spirits of Satire: Kant and Blake Read Emanuel Swedenborg,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 102, 4 (Winter 2020) 325-345.
  • “The Limits of Moral Heroism.” In Thought Work: Thinking Action, and the Fate of the World. Ed. By Elizabeth K. Minnich and Michael Quinn Patton: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. 45-51.
  • “Ethics, Identity, and Political Mediation in Right-Wing American Populism,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 101, 2-3 (Fall 2019) 158-169.
  • “How Not to be Nietzsche,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 100 (Fall 2017) 329-336.
  • “In the Shadow of Central Man: Self-Transcendence and Self-Discovery in Charles Altieri’s Reading of Stevens,” The Wallace Stevens Journal, Vol. 39, No. I (Spring 2015) 56-64.
  • “Who Killed Critique,” In Criticism After Critique: Aesthetics, Literature and the Political. Ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo. New York: Palgrave, 2014. 157-170.
  • “The Precarious Integrity of the The Postsecular, ” boundary 2, 37:3 (Fall 2010): 91-98.
  • “The Devil in the Details: Modernism and the Dilemmas of Democratic Pluralism,” Southern Humanities Review (Fall 2008): 340-359.