Announcements
La Boheme: The Unforgettable Love Story in Music
Interested in the theater and music?
Watch first hand from the best seats in the house!
What: The Los Angeles Opera's dress rehearsal of Puccini's great opera, La Boheme
When: Monday, May 7th
3-6 PM or 7:30-10:30 PM
To sign up for your free tckets please contact Leslie Elias-Volz at Kravis Faculty Support |
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2012 Faculty Summer Research Fellows have been announced! See "Fellowships" at left for more details.
Meet Interim Director Amy Kind
The Gould Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Interim Director Amy Kind, Associate Professor in Philosophy.
Dr. Kind will take the helm in academic year 2011-2011 for Dr. Robert Faggen, .Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature. Professor Faggen has been awarded a Guggenheim grant to pursue his work on Ken Kesey and Robert Frost and will be on sabbatical this year.
Below are some brief biographical details about Professor Kind, but please feel free to introduce yourself as we make welcome for her new endeavor in the coming year. She will maintain her office in Kravis 282, and all Gould related inquires should be directed to her extension there (see more under Contact Us).
Having received her AB from Amherst College and her PhD in Philosophy from UCLA, Amy Kind joined the CMC faculty in 1997. She is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy and serves as Chair of the Philosophy Department. From 2005-2008, she served as Associate Dean of the Faculty. This year, in addition to serving as Interim Director of the Gould Center, she is also the Program Committee Chair for the APA Pacific Division.
Her research focuses mainly on issues in the philosophy of mind relating to the imagination and to consciousness, and her work has appeared in such leading philosophical journals as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and The Philosophical Quarterly. She is currently at work on a textbook entitled Persons and Personal Identity, due to be published by Polity Press in 2013.
