Dennis Rothermel (Ph.D. Northwestern University) Dennis Rothermel received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. His areas of specialization are Aesthetics of Cinema, Kant and Nineteenth-Century German Philosophy, and Philosophy & Artificial Intelligence. He joined the faculty at California State University, Chico in 1981, served as department chair from 1997-2002, and again beginning in 2006. He served as Interim Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Undergraduate Education from 2002-2004. The classes he teaches include Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philosophy, Human Existence, Aesthetics, and Philosophy and Film. His current research interests lie in the intersection of philosophy and cinema. His essay on Jane Campion’s the Piano, Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, and Zhang Yimou’s Hero appeared in 2007 in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His essay on Mystic River appeared in an anthology on the films of Clint Eastwood published by University of Utah Press in 2007.
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