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Kevin Miles
Professor of Philosophy

Kevin Miles’ philosophy classes span centuries, continents, and languages — drawing on texts from “Antigone” to “Are You My Mother?” Kevin also teaches Film Studies, and often incorporates films into his seminars for first-year students.  Kevin regularly presents his research, and serves on the faculty advisory committee for the humanities research semester at Newberry Library in Chicago.

“I have chosen to teach at Earlham because of Earlham's commitment to a teaching and learning process dedicated to awakening and cultivating the ‘teacher within’ our students,” Kevin says.

Contact Info

Campus Mail
Drawer 148

Phone
765-983-1684

E-mail

Office
333 Carpenter Hall

Programs/Departments

  • Philosophy
  • African and African American Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Legal Studies
  • Honors Program

Degrees

  • Ph.D., DePaul University
  • M.A., Villanova University
  • M.A., Villanova University
  • B.A., Philadelphia College of Bible

Selected Courses:

Ancient Greek Philosophy: In Search of a "Pure" Politics in Plato's Republic
Earlham Seminar: 'Are You My Mother' & Other Questions Concerning Identity
Earlham Seminar: Enemies of the State in "The Dark Knight Returns" & "V for Vendetta"
Ethics: Antigonistic Ethics
Introduction to Philosophy: The Ethics of Ancient Greek Philosophy
May Term: "King Kong, the White Woman, & Other Degenerates"
Seminar: Anti-Black racism in the History of Philosophy  Seminar: Philosophy and Ethics in an Age of Technology
Seminar: Philosophy & Violence  W. E. B. Du Bois and the Economy of the Color Line

“Paradigmatic Failure: Politics Without Guarantee in Plato’s Republic.” At Central Indiana Reading Group for Ancient Philosophy, November 21, 2013, Ball State University, Muncie Indiana.

Book Review of “Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Society” by Tina Chanter, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, (6) Winter/Fall 2013, SUNY Press. 

“Through Thick & Thin Blackness: A Response to “Black Identity and Collective Action: A Critique of Tommie Shelby’s We Who Are Dark” at the Indiana Philosophical Association, November 16, 2012, University of Indianapolis. 

"Freedom in Community: Aristotle's Polis and Linklater's Actor's Quartet," in Mosaic 44 (1) 2011, 183-197. 

Freud After Derrida at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.  October 6-9, 2010: Going after the Father: Plato's Apology of Socrates and the Freudian Intention of Aggression.

Lynching as Post-Traumatic Metaphor & the Terror of Freedom.  Paper delivered at Fragmented Bodies of American Lynching: Religion, Politics, Representation, Haverford College, November 12 & 13, 2009. 

Plato’s Apology: A Critique of Democracy.  Paper delivered at Ball State University, Muncie Indiana, October 7, 2009. 

"Paternal Authority in Plato’s Apology"  Paper delivered at Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden, September 18, 2009. 

Freedom & the Phenomenological Voice. Paper presented at the Santorini Voice Symposium, Santorini, Greece, July 10, 2009. 

Suffering the Loss of Nothing: Birthing a Body Politic in an Age of Chaos. Paper Presented at Movement of Nothingness Conference, University of Houston, April 4, 2008.

Indiana Philosophical Association
Newberry Library Faculty Advisory Committee, Chicago

I have chosen to teach at Earlham because of Earlham's commitment to a teaching and learning process dedicated to awakening and cultivating the "teacher within" our students.

Five Earlham students joined me in a semester-long research project investigating Plato's "Republic" and the enterprise culminated with each of the students individually presenting their research findings at an undergraduate conference at Ball State University.

Cycling in Wayne County and racing at the Major Taylor Velodrome in Indianapolis.

Baking breads, cakes, cookies and pies.