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Bernard J. Rhie

Stetson Hall 608
26 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
Email: brhie@williams.edu


Employment

Associate Professor of English, Williams College, 2011-
Visitor, Department of English, Boston University, Spring 2013
Assistant Professor of English, Williams College, 2005-2011
High School Teacher, English and Philosophy, Germantown Friends School,
2003-2005
Graduate Instructor of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1998-2000

Education

Ph.D. in English, University of Pennsylvania, August 2005
M.A. in English, University of Pennsylvania, December 2001
B.A. in English, Highest Honors, University of California at Berkeley, May 1997

Fellowships and Awards

Diane Hunter Prize for Best Dissertation, English, University of Pennsylvania,
2006
Deans Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1997-2001
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1997-2002
Honors Thesis Prize, English, University of California at Berkeley, May 1997

Courses Taught

Introduction to the Novel, The Ethics of Fiction, The Problem of Modernity and
the Modernist Imagination, Contemporary Literature and Ordinary Language
(Graduate Program in English, Boston University; co-taught with Robert Chodat),
Literary Theory and Ordinary Language, The Face: Image, Theory, Politics
(Williams Graduate Program in Art History), Teaching High School English
(Winter Study), The Human Face in the Modern Imagination, Beginning Prousts
In Search of Lost Time (Winter Study), Philosophy and Poetry: Ancient Quarrels
and Modern Questions, Introduction to Asian American Literature, J.M. Coetzee,
Time-Consciousness in Modern Literature and Philosophy, Introduction to
Western Philosophy (Germantown Friends School), Self + Portraiture: Modern
Views of the Person (GFS), 12
th
Grade English (GFS), American Modernism in
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Verse (University of Pennsylvania), Poetry and the City: The Prelude through
Howl (Penn), British Romanticism (Penn), American Literature to 1900 (Penn)

Book Projects

Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism. A collection of
newly commissioned essays that explore the relevance of Cavells writings for
literary theorists and critics. Co-edited with Richard Eldridge (Philosophy,
Swarthmore College). Contributors: Charles Altieri, Sarah Beckwith, R.M. Berry,
Simona Bertacco, Anthony Cascardi, Robert Chodat, John Gibson, Paul Grimstad,
Andrew Miller, Toril Moi, Elisa New, Lawrence Rhu, Naomi Scheman, Garrett
Stewart, and Joshua Wilner. (New York: Bloomsbury 2011)

Articles and Chapters

Wittgenstein on the Face of a Work of Art, nonsite issue #3 (October 2011), a
special issue based on the conference No Quarrel: Literature and Philosophy
Today (Boston University, April 1-2, 2011). URL:
http://nonsite.org/issues/issue-3/wittgenstein-on-the-face-of-a-work-of-art
Cavell, Literary Studies, and the Human Subject, co-authored with Richard
Eldridge, in Eldridge and Rhie, eds., Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies:
Consequences of Skepticism (New York: Continuum, 2011)
The Philosophy of the Face: An Introductory Overview, forthcoming in
Philosophy and Literature.
The Face of the Work of Art: Wittgenstein on Expression, in Heinrich, Richard,
Elisabeth Nemeth, and Wolfram Pichler, eds., Image and Imaging in Philosophy,
Science, and the Arts, Papers of the 33rd International Wittgenstein Symposium
(Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2010): 265-7.
Facts, Values, and Moral Disorientation. Studies in Education 88 (Winter
2004): 53-60.

Digital Projects

Founder of OLP & Literary Studies Online, an academic blog for scholars who
work at the crossroads of ordinary language philosophy and literary studies. URL:
http://olponline.wordpress.com

Conferences, Workshops, Lectures

Respondent to Toril Moi, Understanding from Inside, or Critique and
Admiration: Reading after Wittgenstein and Cavell, 2014 Lionel Trilling
Seminar, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, March 3,
2014. By invitation.
Writing is Thinking 2, workshop presenter and leader, Center for Philosophy,
Arts, and Literature, Duke University, March 1, 2013. By invitation.
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Narrative and/in Wittgenstein, a special session, chair, MLA Convention,
Seattle, WA, January 5-8, 2012.
On the Philosophy of the Face, a lecture for the Department of Philosophy,
Auburn University, November 11, 2011. By invitation.
Wittgenstein on the Face of a Work of Art, pre-circulated paper, for No
Quarrels: Literature and Philosophy Today, a workshop/conference at the
Humanities Foundation, Boston University, April 1-2, 2011. By invitation.
Writing is Thinking: Writing as a Way of Life in the Academy, workshop
presenter and leader, Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature, Duke
University, January 28, 2011. By invitation.
Beyond Critique: Reading After the Hermeneutics of Suspicion, a special
session, chair, MLA Convention, Los Angeles, CA, January 6-9, 2011.
Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of the Face, a lecture at the Humanities Center,
Johns Hopkins University, as part of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Futures Seminar, October 29, 2010. By invitation.
Futures for the Humanities roundtable presentation, Humanities Center, Johns
Hopkins University, as part of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Futures
Seminar, October 28, 2010. By invitation.
Cavell, Literary Studies, and the Human Subject, conference paper co-authored
with Richard Eldridge, for Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies, a conference at
Harvard University, October 15, 2010.
Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies, conference co-organizer, a conference to
be held at the Humanities Center at Harvard University, October 14-16, 2010.
Conference based on the edited collection of the same name (see above, under
Books). Full conference information available at: http://tinyurl.com/Cavell-
Conference
Respondent to Geoffrey Harpham, After Humanism, a symposium at the
Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College,
September 23-24, 2010.
The Face of the Work of Art: Wittgenstein on Expression, conference paper,
33
rd
International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria,
August 8-14, 2010.
Seminar leader, with Steven Affeldt, Symposium on Stanley Cavell and
Shakespeare, part of Cavelleria Siracusa: a series of events in 2009-2010 on
the work of Stanley Cavell, Le Moyne College, April 15, 2010. By invitation.
On Neuroscience and the Arts, gallery talk associated with the exhibition,
Landscapes of the Mind: Contemporary Artists Contemplate the Brain, Williams
College Museum of Art, February 25, 2010. Text posted online at the WCMA
Blog: http://wcmablog.williams.edu/?p=161
On the Philosophy of the Face, workshop presentation at the first Young
Scholars Workshop, Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature, Duke
University, February 19-20, 2010. By invitation.
The Literary Cavell: The Claim of Reason at Thirty, a special session, organizer
and chair, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 27-30, 2009.
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On the Philosophy of the Face, a lecture sponsored by the Department of
English, Pomona College, November 19, 2009. By invitation.
On the Philosophy of the Face, a lecture sponsored by the Critical Theory
Emphasis, U.C. Irvine, November 10, 2009. By invitation.
Wittgenstein on Expression: Physiognomy and Aesthetics, conference paper,
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Harvard
University, March 27, 2009.
The Face, in Theory, conference paper, The Louisville Conference on
Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, February 21, 2009.
Wittgenstein and Poetics, a special session, organizer, MLA Convention,
Chicago, IL, December 30, 2007.
Philosophy and Literature: Reading across the Disciplines, workshop
participant, Mellon workshop at Wesleyan University, May 9-10, 2007. By
invitation.
The Face of Theory, conference paper, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA,
December 27, 2006.
Coetzees Moral Philosophy of the Face in Waiting for the Barbarians,
conference paper, The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since
1900, University of Louisville, February 25, 2006.
On Robert Henris Laughing Child, a gallery talk associated with the
exhibition, Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film 1880-1910, Williams
College Museum of Art, October 5, 2005.
Facts, Values, and Moral Disorientation, commencement address to the
graduating class of 2004, Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, PA, June 11,
2004. By invitation of the graduating class.
Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poetics, workshop participant, Kelly Writers
House, University of Pennsylvania, October 17-19, 2003. By invitation.
Why Hamlet? Derridas Specters of Marx and the Question of Levinas,
Graduate-Faculty Colloquium, Department of English, University of
Pennsylvania, March 2003.

College and Departmental Service

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Colleges Grievance Procedures (2014-15)
Faculty director, English Departments Class of 1960s Scholars Program (2014-
15)
Elected to Faculty Review Panel (2014-15)
Olmsted Committee (2014-15)
Faculty Interview Panel (2013-15)
Director of the Williams College Tutorial Program (Fall 2013-)
Faculty Liaison, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) and Williams
College Undergraduate Research Fellowship (WCURF) Programs (Spring 2012-
Summer 2014)
Faculty Panelist, Teaching into the 21
st
Century, Class of 1966 Presidential
Forum (April 2014)
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Faculty Host and Presenter, for Michael Weiner 83, Convocation and
Bicentennial Medalist Banquet (September 2013)
Faculty Speaker, Welcome to Academic Life (September 2014, 2012, 2011)
Faculty coordinator (with Wendy Raymond and Joyce Foster), Looking Ahead
to Academic Life and Advising Matters (Fall 2011)
Programming coordinator, English Department (2011-12)
Faculty co-director (with Christian Thorne), English Departments Class of 1960s
Scholars Program (2011-12)
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Tenure Appeal Process (2010-12)
Elected non-tenured Division I representative, Faculty Steering Committee (2010-
12, 2007-8)
Respondent to Geoffrey Harpham, After Humanism, a symposium at the
Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College,
September 23-24, 2010.
Comparative Literature Advisory Committee (2010-11, Spring 2010, 2007-8)
Exhibition label for Head of a Warrior, Roman mosaic, ca. 300, for Labeltalk
2011: Art of the Ancient World, Williams College Museum of Art, Spring 2011.
College Nominating Committee, Beinecke Brothers Scholarship (Spring 2010)
On Neuroscience and the Arts, gallery talk associated with the exhibition,
Landscapes of the Mind: Contemporary Artists Contemplate the Brain, Williams
College Museum of Art, February 25, 2010. By invitation of the curators.
Williams College Representative, First Mellon 23 Assembly, on the topic of
Interdisciplinarity, Macalester College, February 15-17, 2008.
Interview and Selection Committee, Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford
(Spring 2007, Spring 2008)
College Committee on Diversity and Community (2006-7)
Co-chair (with Stephen Fix), English Department Curriculum Committee during
departmental self-study and external review (2006-7)
Co-organizer (with Holly Edwards, Art History), Williams College Visual Studies
Initiative (2006-7): a year-long faculty reading group and lecture series, with talks
by Margaret Livingstone (Neurobiology), Mieke Bal (Literature), Kwame
Anthony Appiah (Philosophy), and William Kentridge (Art).
Faculty mentor, MMUF/WCURF Program (Summer 2006)
On Robert Henris Laughing Child, gallery talk associated with the exhibition,
Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film 1880-1910, Williams College
Museum of Art, October 5, 2005. By invitation of the curator.