Clayton Crockett

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion

University of Central Arkansas

201 Donaghey Avenue

Conway, AR 72035

(501) 450-5506

ClaytonC@uca.edu

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D., SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, 5/98, Department of Religion.

 

Dissertation: "The Theological Sublime: Subjectivity, Temporality and Imagination in the

Kantian Critique." Advisor: Charles E. Winquist.

 

M.A., UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, 5/94. Concentration: Philosophical Theology.

 

B.A., COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, 5/91. Majors: Religion and History.

 

 

Specialization

 

Areas of Research Specialization: Modern and Contemporary Western Religious Thought,

Kantian Sublime, 19th and 20th Century Philosophy and Theology, Psychoanalytic Theory, Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion.

 

Areas of Teaching Competence: Modern and Contemporary Religious Thought and

Theology, World Religions, History of Christianity and Christian Thought,

Theory of Religion, Ethics, Religion in America.

 

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS, Conway, AR                Fall 2003-Present

Assistant Professor of Religion

           

Modern Religious Thought, Introduction to World Religions, Theories of Religion, Religion, Science and Technology, Postmodern Theology, Exploring Religion.

 

COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, Williamsburg, VA   Fall 2000-Spring 2001

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion

 

Introduction to Religion, Modern Religious Thought, Christianity, Roman Catholic Thought Since 1800.

 

WESLEY COLLEGE, Dover, DE                                                        Fall 1998-Spring 2000

Adjunct Professor of Religion and Philosophy                            Fall 2001-Spring 2003

 

Literature of the Old Testament, World Religions, Religion in America, Religion and Popular Culture, Logic, Business Ethics, Self in Society.

 

LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE, Annville, PA                                  Spring 1998-Spring 2000

Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Religion

 

            Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy, Religion in America, Organizational Ethics.

 

 

 

Publications

 

 

Books

 

Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory, Fordham University Press,

 forthcoming (under contract).

Editor, Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New Political Theology, University

of Virginia Press, forthcoming, 2006 (in press).

A Theology of the Sublime, Routledge, 2001.

Editor, Secular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought, Routledge, 2001.

 

Journal Articles

 

 “Technology and the Time-Image: Deleuze and Postmodern Subjectivity,” South

 African Journal of Philosophy, Volume 24, Number 3, 2005.  

“Post-Modernism and its Secrets: Religion Without Religion,” Cross Currents, Volume

52, Number 4, Winter 2003.

“On Sublimation: The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Study of Religion,” Journal            of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 68, Number 4, December 2000.

“The Challenge of Postmodernism and the Health of Theology,” Journal of Religion and

Health, Volume 39, Number 3, 2000.

“Anxiety and the Sublime Body of God,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 1:1,        December 1999.

 “Tillich and Foucault in the Depths of Reason,” Explorations: Journal for Adventurous         Thought, Volume 14, Number 1, Fall 1995.

 

 

 

 

Contributions

 

“Radical Theology and the Event: Deleuze avec St. Paul,” Paul and Philosophy, edited by

Ward Blanton, Creston Davis, and Hent de Vries, Duke University Press, forthcoming.

“On the Freedom of Radical Theology,” Radical Theology: The New

Generation, edited by Lissa McCullough, forthcoming.

Entries for “Philosophy of Religion,” “Theology of Culture,” and “Ontology,” Handbook for

Religious Studies, edited by Ken Lokensgard and Oz Lorentzen, Davies Group Publishers, forthcoming.

 “The Double Helix: Of Philosophical Theology,” in Between Description and Interpretation:

The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology, edited by Andre Wiercinski, The Hermeneutic

Press, 2005.

“Foreclosing God: Philosophy of Religion and Psychoanalysis,” in Explorations in

Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion, edited by Deane-Peter Baker and Patrick Maxwell, Rodopi, 2003.

“Gilles Deleuze and the Sublime Fold of Religion,” in Rethinking Philosophy of Religion:

Approaches from Continental Philosophy, edited by Philip Goodchild, Fordham University Press, 2002.

Foreword to Gabriel Vahanian, Anonymous God, translated by Noëlle Vahanian, Davies

Group Publishers, 2001.

Entries for “Aporia” “Donna Haraway,” “Immanuel Kant,” “Plane of Immanence,”

“Avital Ronnell,” “Richard Rorty,” “Sublime,” and “Gianni Vattimo,”

 Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, edited by Charles E. Winquist and Victor E. Taylor,

 Routledge, 2000.

Foreword to Charles E. Winquist, Epiphanies of Darkness, Davies Group Publishers

(reprinting), 1999.

“On the Disorientation of the Study of Religion,” in What is Religion?: Origins,

Definitions & Explanations, edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson, Brill Academic Publishers, 1998.

 

 

Editorial Essays (Non-refereed)

 

St. Paul and the Event,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 6.2, April 2005.

“Long Time Coming: Theology, Methodology, Cultural Theory,” Journal for Cultural and

Religious Theory 5.2, April 2004.

“Piety, Power and Bare Life: What in the World is Going on in the Name of Religion?,Journal

 for Cultural and Religious Theory 4:3, August 2003.

“Taking Shape: On the Current Constellation of (Religious) Thought,” Journal for

Cultural and Religious Theory 3:3, August 2002.

“Economies of Studying Religion,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 1:3,

August 2000.

 

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Theology and the Political: The New Debate, ed. Creston Davis, John Milbank and Slavoj Zizek

            (Duke University Press, 2005). Journal of the American Academy of Religion,

            forthcoming, 2006.

The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life, ed. Phil Cousineau

(University of California Press, 2003). Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology,

Philosophy, History and Science, Volume 12, No.3/4, Fall/Winter 2005.

Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque, Evonne Levy (University of California Press, 2004).

            Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and

Science, Volume 11 No.3/4, Fall/Winter 2004.

Desert Screen: War at the Speed of Light, Paul Virilio (Athlone Press, 2002). Theoria 102,

December 2003.

Revolt, She Said, Julia Kristeva (Semiotext(e), 2002). Theoria 101, June 2003.

The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?, Slavoj Zizek

(Verso Books, 2000). Theoria 99, June 2002.

Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan, Louis Althusser, translated by Jeffrey

Mehlman (Columbia University Press, 1996). Theoria 98, December 2001.

Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), Martin Heidegger, translated by Parvis

Emad and Kenneth Maly (Indiana University Press, 1999). Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 2.3, August 2001. 

The Other Freud: Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis, James J. DiCenso (London:

Routledge, 1999). Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 39, Number 1, 2000.

Post-Secular Philosophy, edited by Philip Blond (London: Routledge, 1998). Religion,           Volume 29, Number 8, April 1999.

Nietzsche and Depth Psychology, edited by Jacob Golomb, Weaver Santaniello, and

Ronald Lehrer (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999). Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 38, 1999.

The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory, William McNeill        (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999). Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 38, 1999.

Arguing for Atheism, Robin Le Poidevin (New York: Routledge, 1996). Religious Studies     Review, Volume 23, Number 4, October 1997.

 

 

 

Conference Presentations/Lectures

 

 

“The Truth of Life: Michel Henry on Marx,” Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology,

Birmingham, AL, March 31-April 1, 2006.

“Deleuze and St. Paul: A Theo-Logic of the Event,” American Academy of Religion Southwest

Regional Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 4-5, 2006.

“Post-Secular Spinoza: On the Potential for a Radical Political Theology,” Secularity and

Globalization: What Comes After Modernity? The Fifth Annual Lilly Fellows Program National Research Conference, Calvin College, MI, November 10-12, 2005.

“Deleuze and Postmodern Subjectivity: Technology, Time-Image and Self-Perception,” Society

            for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Memphis TN, October 28-30, 2004.

Co-organizer and co-presider, “The Religious Turn in Culture and Theory,” panel session

with John D. Caputo, Philip Goodchild and Gregg Lambert, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 22-25, 2003.

Panel Participant, “A Theology of Desire: In Memory of Charles E. Winquist,” AAR/SBL

Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 23-26, 2002.

Invited Lecture, “Kant, Deleuze and the Baroque Sublime,” Syracuse University,

Syracuse, NY, March 20, 2002.

“Postmodernism and its Secrets,” Secrecy: Histories and Publics Conference, Sweet Briar

College, VA, March 15-17, 2002.

Organizer and presider, “Postmodern Secular Theology,” panel session with Edith

Wyschogrod, John D. Caputo, Carl Raschke, Charles E. Winquist and Gabriel Vahanian, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 18-21, 2000.

“Gilles Deleuze and the Sublime Fold of Religion,” Continental Philosophy of Religion

Conference, St. Martin’s College, Lancaster, England, July 18-21, 2000.

“God Without Being (God)” AAR/SBL Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting, Chadds Ford, PA,

March 23-24, 2000

“Economies of Studying Religion,” Religious Studies and Cultural Engagement: Syracuse

University Department of Religion Alumni and Graduate Student Conference, Syracuse University, February 8-20, 2000.

“Radical Orthodoxy and Secular Theology: A Confrontation,” panel presentation and     discussion with John Milbank, Phillip Blond, Charles E. Winquist, and Alex    Hawkins, AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 20-23, 1999.

“On Creation ex Nihilo: Tillich and Psychoanalysis,” AAR/SBL Annual Meeting, Boston,          MA, November 20-23, 1999.

 “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis,” AAR/SBL Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting, Arlington, VA,          February 25-26, 1999.

“Freud and Theology,” AAR/SBL Eastern International Region Meeting, University of   Toronto, April 17-18, 1998.

“The End of the Century and the Task for Theology,” AAR/SBL Eastern International Region

Meeting, D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY, April 6-7, 1997.

“Aesthetics After Kant,” AAR/SBL Eastern International Region Meeting, LeMoyne     College, Syracuse, NY, April 12-14, 1996.

“Tillich and Foucault in the Depths of Reason,” AAR/SBL Tri-Regional Meeting, Boston,

MA, March 30-April 1, 1995.

 

 

 

Activities

 

Asian Studies Development Program three-week Institute on Infusing Asian Studies into the

Faculty Curriculum, East-West Center, University of Honolulu, May 20-June 16, 2006.

Interviewed for a feature-length documentary, Silhouette City, written and directed by Michael

Wilson, to be released in 2006. This film deals with apocalyptic militarism and contemporary theocratic politics.

Editorial Advisory Board, Blackwell Religion Compass on-line project, Blackwell, 2005-present.

Co-Editor with Jeffrey W. Robbins, Book Series on “Contemporary Religious Thought,” The

Davies Group, Publishers, 2001-present.

Editor, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (peer-reviewed on-line journal),

1999-present. www.jcrt.org

Student Liaison, American Academy of Religion, Spring 1996-Spring 1998.

 

 

 

Awards

 

University of Central Arkansas Summer Research Stipend, Summer 2004, University Research

Council competitive award.

Syracuse University Doctoral Prize, 1998.

Syracuse University One Year Continuing (Dissertation) Fellowship, 1997-1998.

Phi Kappa Phi, 1996.

Theta Alpha Kappa, 1996.

 

 

 

References

 

Available upon request.