Hue Woodson 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

 

Literature:

• African American Literature: 1950s-1960s (Wright, Ellison, Baldwin)

• African-American Thought (Cornel West, James Cone, bell hooks) 

• Shakespearean Studies (Shakespearean Tragedy, Shakespearean Sonnets)

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Philosophy and Theory:

• Ancient Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle)

• Analytic Philosophy (Wittgenstein, Russell)

• Continental Philosophy (existentialism, ontology, epistemology, phenomenology)

• Critical Theory (Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Gender, Postcolonialism, Marxism, Critical Race, Cultural Studies)

• Hermeneutics (philosophical, theological, biblical interpretation)

• Literary Theory (emphasis in applications to Shakespeare)

• Modern French Philosophy (Foucault, Derrida, Sartre)

• Modern German Philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger)

• Posthumanism (Animal Studies, Philosophy of Technology, Race) 

• Rhetoric (Classical, Argumentation Theory, Modern)

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Theology:

• Christian and Systematic Theologies (Macquarrie, Bultmann, Rahner, Tillich)

• Christian Existentialism (Kierkegaard)

• Existential Theology (Heidegger-influenced: Macquarrie, Rahner, Bultmann, Tillich)

• History of Christianity (primitive Christianity, the Early Church, Reformation)

• New Testament (Canonical Texts and Non-Canonical Literature)

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