troy jollimore
TROY JOLLIMORE is
Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Jollimore
studied in the Philosophy Department at
His
articles have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly and Midwest Studies in Philosophy, and in
the collections Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Philosophers on Film)
and Bioethics and the Movies. He spent the 2006-2007 academic year as an
External Faculty Fellow at the
His
first book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, was selected by former
US Poet Laureate Billy Collins for the 2005 Robert E. Lee & Ruth I. Wilson
Poetry Book Award, and won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. A chapbook of
recent work, The Solipsist, was
published by Bear Star Press in November 2008. His poems have appeared in
recent issues of Hayden’s Ferry Review,
McSweeney’s, The Believer, and
the New Yorker.
(Click
here
for details on The Solipsist, or here to read a
review. To read some online poems, click here.)
Professor
Jollimore’s areas of research interest include normative ethics, meta-ethics, political
philosophy, and philosophy of literature and film. He has taught courses on all
of these topics, and on epistemology, ancient philosophy, the history of modern
philosophy, and biomedical ethics, as well as a number of poetry workshops.
In
addition to serving as Director of the
Troy
Jollimore
Department
of Philosophy
tjollimore [at] csuchico.edu