Gregory Burgin
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UNIVERSITY ACTIVITY CENTER TEMPE, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 0604Campus: Otherus
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Dr. Gregory Burgin is an Instructor with Writers' Studio in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts and the School of Applied Sciences and Arts. Dr. Burgin has been teaching first-year composition for Writers' Studio since 2015. With a specialization in Continental and Comparative Philosophy, his scholarship seeks to foster a more global and intercultural approach to addressing topics related to identity, ethics, reality, thought, discourse, and society. His work is informed by Phenomenology and draws widely from the Continental tradition—19th Century to Contemporary Theories as well as Mahayana Buddhist philosophies like Chan/Zen.
- Ph.D. in English (Rhetorics)
- Master of Letters in Philosophy
Continental Philosophy—19th Century to Contemporary Theories, Comparative Philosophy.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
(2025). "The Convergence-Centered Classroom: Teaching and Learning in a Posthuman Context." Journal of Posthuman Studies 9(1): 98-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud.9.1.0098.
(2024). “More Than Death: Rethinking the Philosophy of Halloween.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 30(1-2): 217-238. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/pcw2024301/213.
(2024). “The Hand of Thought: A Cross-Tradition Examination of Kosho Uchiyama and Martin Heidegger.” Comparative Philosophy 15(1): 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/2151-6014(2024).150104.
(2015). “Danto’s Error: Sustaining Art’s Narrative with the Primacy of the Aesthetic.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 22(1): 37-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/pcw20152214.
Essays:
(Summer 2019). Rhetorical Realism: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things. Scot Barnett, New York: Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-138-64821-0,Reviewed for Frontiers of Philosophy in China 14(2): 357-362.
"Beauty as Restraint: Ethically Caring for the Twofold Locality of Beauty." Paper presented at Fonte Aretusa: The Fourth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece: with a special emphasis on τὸ καλόν to kalon: the beautiful, good, noble, fine at the Sicily Center for International Education, June 2018.
“The Rhetoric of Ruins.” Paper presented at The Twelfth Annual Meeting of The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle at Arizona State University, March 2017.
“The Original Ethics of our Poetic Dwelling in a Technological World.” Paper presented at the Critical Issues in Eastern and Western Philosophy Conference at the Nepal Academy, Nepal, Kathmandu December 2016.
“The Path of the Wounded Healer: The Shamanic Journey in T.S. Eliot’s, Four Quartets.” Paper presented at the Apothecary’s Chest: Magic, Art, & Medication symposium at the University of Glasgow, November 2007.
Courses
2026 Spring
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2025 Fall
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2025 Summer
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Spring
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Fall
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Summer
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Spring
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Fall
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Summer
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Spring
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Fall
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |