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The pope and the planet with dr 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). He received his Ph.D. from Boston College where he studied with Richard Kearney & Jacques Taminiaux. 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.
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Lmu freshman academic convocation 2015 with brian treanor phd
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.
Teaching & Administrative Work
While offering a wide range of challenging advanced courses in hermeneutics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of literature, and environmental philosophy, Professor Treanor has remained deeply committed to LMU’s undergraduate core, regularly teaching core classes in Environmental Ethics, Philosophical Inquiry, and, LMU’s Freshmen First Year Seminars. With colleagues in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, he launched the 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.
Professor Treanor has been exceptionally engaged in and supportive of Loyola Marymount’s mission, including the Jesuit tradition of liberal arts education and the Catholic intellectual tradition. He has served two terms on the Committee for Mission and Identity, as a delegate to Western Conversations in Jesuit Higher Education, as a member of the Catholic Studies Advisory Council, and, repeatedly, in New Faculty Orientation on issues related to mission, teaching, and scholarship. Beyond LMU, he was a participant in the Collegium Colloquy on Faith and the Intellectual Life (2001) and served on the Executive Committees of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Gabriel Marcel Society, the International Association of Environmental Philosophy, and the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition.
Research
Treanor has authored and co-edited six books:
1 Carnal Hermeneutics, co-edited with Richard Kearney (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015).
2 Being in Creation: Human Responsibility in an Endangered World, co-edited with Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015).
3 Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2014).
4 Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, co-edited with Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013).
5 A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur, co-edited with Henry Isaac Venema (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010).
6 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. A full list can be found at http://faculty.lmu.edu/briantreanor/cv-2/
His current projects are focused on developing an "earthly" hermeneutics and a monograph on the experience of joy.