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GREGG M.

HOROWITZ Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee 37240 (615) 322-2637 2600 Westwood Avenue Nashville, Tennessee 37212 (615) 460-9088 Summer Address: 32 Morton Street #8C New York, New York 10014 EDUCATION Ph.D. in Philosophy, Rutgers University, May 1992. M.A. in Philosophy, Boston University, January 1983. B.A. in Philosophy and Film, Sarah Lawrence College, May 1980. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art History Critical Theory of Culture Philosophy and Psychoanalysis AREAS OF COMPETENCE Social and Political Philosophy Philosophy of Film, Photography, and Painting Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Philosophy TEACHING EXPERIENCE Vanderbilt University, Associate Professor, 2000- . University of Chicago, Heinz Kohut Visiting Professor, Spring 2006. Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor, 1993-2000. Sarah Lawrence College, Member of the Faculty (there are no ranks), 1987-1991. School of Visual Arts, Adjunct Professor, Spring 1991. Rutgers University, Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Fall 1986 and 1988-1989. Drew University, Lecturer, Spring 1987. Bentley College, Instructor, 1985-1986. University of Massachusetts - Boston, Lecturer, 1984-1985. Boston University, Teaching Fellow and Instructor, 1981-1985.

PUBLICATIONS Books Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life (Stanford University Press, 2001). Edited and co-written with Thomas Huhn, The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste. Essays by Arthur C. Danto. Commentary by Gregg Horowitz and Thomas Huhn (Gordon and Breach Publishers, May 1998). Essays The Authority of Dreams in Barbara Hahn and Meike Werner, ed., Sleeping, I Am More Awake (Rodopi, forthcoming 2009). A Late Adventure of the Feelings: Loss, Trauma and the Limits of Psychoanalysis in Kristen Brown and Bettina Bergo, ed., The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues (SUNY Press, forthcoming, 2009). The Residue of History: Dark Play in Schiller and Hegel in German Idealism - An International Yearbook (Walter de Gruyter, 2007), pp.179-98. Photoshop, or, Unhanding Art in Daniel Herwitz and Michael Kelly, ed., Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur Danto (Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 82-103. Thierry de Duve in Diarmuid Costello and Jonathan Vickery, ed., Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers (Berg, 2007), pp.60-64. Aesthetic Knowing and Historical Knowing in James Elkins, ed., The Art Seminar: Art History versus Aesthetics (Routledge, 2006), pp. 211-220. Old Media in Gertrud Koch and Christiane Voss, ed., Zwischen Ding und Zeichen (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2005), pp. 61-79. I sat Food on my knees: The Promise of Beauty in Arthur C. Dantos The Abuse of Beauty, Inquiry 48:2 (April 2005), pp.155-71. Sublimation and Disappointment, Southern Journal of Philosophy 42 supplement (2004), pp.137-143. Art as Objective Praxis, in Carol Gould, ed., Constructivism and Practice: Developing a Social and Historical Epistemology (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pp.153-165. The Aesthetics of the Avant-Garde, in Jerrold Levinson, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp.748-60. 2

Art and Lamentation, Constellations 7:2 (June 2000), pp.208-29. Sustaining Loss: Gerhard Richter and Historical Witness, at Wexner Center for the Arts Website (http://www.wexarts.org/ thefold), Stephen Melville, ed., September 1998. ! French translation in La Part de lOeil no.17/18 (2001/02), pp.206-13. E.H. Gombrich, in Michael Kelly, ed., The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, August 1998). Form und Geschichte in Art after the End of Art, Deutsche Zeitschrift fr Philosophie 45:5 (1997), pp.759-63. Art History and Autonomy, in Thomas Huhn and Lambert Zuidervaart, editors, The Semblance of Subjectivity (The MIT Press, 1997), pp.259-85. Public Art/Public Space: The Spectacle of the Tilted Arc Controversy, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 54:1 (Winter 1996), pp.8-14. ! Reprinted in Alex Neil and Aaron Ridley, ed., Arguing About Art ,2nd edition (Routledge, 2002), pp.446-56. Theory and Other Thoughts: Daniel Herwitz's MakingTheory/Constructing Art - A Review Essay, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 53:2 (Spring 1995), pp.203-09. Suddenly One Has the Right Eyes : Illusion and Iconoclasm in the Early Gombrich, in C.C. Gould and R.S. Cohen, editors, Artifacts, Representations, and Social Practice (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), pp.253-70. Objectivity and Valuation in Contemporary Art History, in Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell, editors, Explanation and Value in Literary and Visual Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp.127-45. Avoiding the Subject, Social Epistemology 5:3 (January 1991), pp.187-92. Reviews Charles Harrisons Painting the Difference Modernism/Modernity 14:2 (2007), pp.773-74. Jonathan Lears Therapeutic Action, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (August 2004). Gilberto Perez's The Material Ghost, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57:3 (Summer 1999), pp.381-83. Raphael Sassower's Technoscientific Angst, Social Theory and Practice, 25:1 (Spring 1999), pp.168-71. 3

Nol Carroll's A Philosophy of Mass Art, The Journal of Philosophy, 96:2 (February 1999), pp.99-105. Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx, Constellations, 3:1 (April 1996), pp.120-24. Richard Serra's Writings/Interviews, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 53:4 (Fall 1995), p.450. Rosalind E. Krauss's The Optical Unconscious, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 52:4 (Fall 1994), pp.488-89. Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell's The Language of Art History, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 52:2 (Spring 1994), pp.249-50. Stuart Sim's Beyond Aesthetics, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 13:2 (April 1993), pp.6668. Julian Young's Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 12:6 (December 1992), pp.447-51. Trevor Whittock's Metaphor and Film, Film Quarterly 45:4 (Summer 1992), pp.52-54. John Gilmour's Fire on the Earth: Anselm Kiefer and the Postmodern World, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 11:3 (June 1991), pp.191-93. Jon Elster's Making Sense of Marx, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19:2 (June 1989), pp.232-35. Doctoral Dissertation Looking at Pictures: Appearance and Subjectivity in Mimetic Representation Supervisors: Professor Peter Kivy, Rutgers University Professor Marx Wartofsky, City University of New York

PRESENTATIONS Freud and the Politics of Intimacy, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (June 2009). Flesh Made Paint, Frist Center for the Visual Arts (April 2009). Voice Thrown, Voice Caught: Ventriloquism in the Art of Tony Oursler, The American Academy in Berlin (April 2008) and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (May 2008). On David C. Woods Time After Time, Vanderbilt University, November 2007. Puppets: A Theory of Artistic Substance, Miami University, April 2007. Puppets and Artworks, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, February 2007. Juice, or the Art of the Everyday, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, December 2006. The Authority of Dreams, Heinz Kohut Lecture, University of Chicago, May 2006. Fundamentalism, Paternity and Politics, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, May 2006. The Weak Father: Psychoanalysis and Politics, University of Notre Dame, April 2006. The Authority of Dreams, International Conference on Sleeping, I am more awake, Vanderbilt University, March 2006. The Weak Father, Richardson History of Psychiatry Seminar, Weill Cornell Medical College, February 2006. On Michael Fried on Jeff Wall (Response to Michael Frieds Trilling Seminar), Columbia University, November 2005. Michael Kellys Iconoclasm in Aesthetics, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, October 2005. Old Media, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, October 2004. Fruit and Meat: On Chardins A Bowl of Plums and Gauguins The Ham, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, April 2004. Arthur Dantos The Abuse of Beauty, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, October 2003. Sublimation and Disappointment in the Work of Julia Kristeva, The Spindel Conference, University of Memphis, September 2003. 5

A Late Adventure of the Feelings: Trauma and the Valorization of Violence, Millsaps College, April 2003. The Concept of The Arts, University of California at Berkeley, February 2003. Unhanding Art, University of South Carolina, September 2002; Columbia University, October 2002; University of Maine, February 2003. The Lack of Imagination in Psychoanalytic Theory, Northwestern University, April 2002. Photo-shop, Northwestern University, April 2002. Freud, Atheism, and the Problem of Modern Political Authority, New School University, December 2001. Forum on Gregg M. Horowitz, Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, October 2001. New and Not Improved: On the Question of Progress in the Arts, Vanderbilt University, April 2001. Richter's Ghosts: Between Photography and Painting, Northwestern University, April 2000. Shipwreck without Spectator: Kabakov's Boat of My Life, University of Memphis, February 2000. Art as Objective Praxis, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, October 1999. Garbage as Medium, Medium as Garbage, Deutsche Gesellschaft fr sthetik, Hannover, Germany, May 1999. Art as Reflective Praxis, Conference on the Philosophy of Marx Wartofsky, March 1999. Death After Contempt, College Art Association Annual Conference, February 1999. Forum on Horowitz, Huhn, and Danto, The Wake of Art, The New Museum, New York, November 1998. The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, November 1998. Autonomy as Normativity, Workshop on Autonomy and Formalism in Art and the Law, Columbia University Law School, October 1998. 6

Freudian Trauma, Modernist Innovation, Fourteenth International Congress of Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 1998. Art as Objective Praxis, World Congress of Philosophy, August 1998. Sustaining Loss: Techniques of Suffering, Vanderbilt University Philosophy Department, April 1998. Gerhard Richter and Historical Witness, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, October 1997. Art as Reflective Praxis, Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, September 1997. The End of History in Arthur Danto's Art after the End of Art, Zentrum fr interdisziplinare Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Germany, April 1997. Sustaining Loss: Art and Historical Witness, University of Maine, October 1996. On Lenn Goodman's On Justice, Vanderbilt University Philosophy Department, March 1996. Painting and Postmodernity, Vanderbilt University Humanities Center, March 1996. The Poetry of Robert Pinsky, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, November 1995. Flux and History in Science and the Arts, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, May 1995. Art and Lamentation, Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, March 1995. Museums and the American Avant-garde, American Studies Program, Vanderbilt University, November 1994. On Daniel Herwitz's Making Theory/Constructing Art, American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Meeting, April 1994. Art History and Autonomy, Columbia University, January 1994. Public Art/Public Space: The Tilted Arc Controversy Revisited, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, October 1993. Comment on Eddy Zemach's Metaphors Good and True, American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting, March 1993. 7

Eye-Catching Metaphors, Lynd Colloquium, Sarah Lawrence College, January 1991. Comment on Jane Duran's On Decadence, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, October 1990. Comment on Martin Donougho's Interpreting The Interpretation of Pictures and Carl Hausman's Figurative Language in Art History, American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting, April 1990. Realistic Visual Representation, Naturalism, and Ideology, American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, October 1989. There's More Than One Way to Skin an Angel: On Photographic Objectivity and the Visually Real, American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting, April 1989. Toward a Social Theory of Images, Western Social Science Association Conference, April 1989. Reflecting on Photographic Representation, Rutgers College General Honors Program, February 1987.

GRANTS AND AWARDS AT VANDERBILT Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 2008. University Central Research Scholar Fellowship, Funding for Research Leave, 2001-02. The Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1998. Small Grants Award, University Research Council, Travel to Fourteenth International Congress of Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1998. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, Fellowship for Research Seminar Person-Centered Approaches to Culture, 1997-1998. Vanderbilt University, University Research Council, Funding for Writing of Manuscript Sustaining Loss, 1996-97. OTHER ACADEMIC AWARDS Berlin Prize, Berthold Leibinger Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin, 2008. Teaching Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1986 and 1988-1989. Research Fellowship, The Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, 1986-1987. Borden Parker Bowne Fellowship, Boston University, 1985-1986. University Teaching Fellowship, Boston University, 1984-1985. University Graduate Fellowship, Boston University, 1980-1984. COURSES TAUGHT (1) Political and Social Philosophy (2) The Sublime, the Beautiful and the Ugly (3) Philosophy and the Aesthetic Experience: A History of Aesthetic and Cultural Theory (4) Contemporary Problems of Aesthetics (5) Philosophy and Film (6) Freud (7) Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (8) Structuralism, Post-structuralism, and the Human Sciences (9) The Origin of the Work of Art (10) Expressionism in Films (11) Philosophy and Popular Culture (12) Theories of Visual Representation (13) Theories of Property (14) Contemporary Moral and Social Problems (15) Introduction to Philosophy (16) Philosophy and Literary Theory (17) Marx (18) Kantian Aesthetics (19) Hegelian Aesthetics (20) Cavells Philosophy of Film LANGUAGES Italian German - reading AFFILIATIONS American Philosophical Association American Society for Aesthetics College Art Association Society for Cinema Studies

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Organizer of the Annual Vanderbilt Conference on Politics, Criticism and the Arts, 2005- . Co-editor of Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism and the Arts (Book Series), 2005-. Selection Committee, American Academy in Berlin, 2009-. Fellowship Reviewer for the American Academy in Berlin, 2001-2006, 2007. Member of the Program Committee for the American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, 2008. Manuscript Referee for Ashgate Press, 2008-09. Manuscript Referee for Stanford University Press, 2006. Manuscript Referee for Columbia University Press, 2004-2005. Manuscript Referee for SUNY Press, 2003. Manuscript Referee for Penn State University Press, 2002. Grant Reviewer for the American Council of Learned Societies, 2001-04. Proposal Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, 2001. Manuscript Referee for Northwestern University Press, 2001. Symposiast for the American Council of Learned Societies on Post-tenure Career Development, 2001. Grant Reviewer for Israel Science Foundation, 2001. Organizer of Conference at Vanderbilt University, Aesthetics/Ethics/Politics: New Readings of Kant's Critique of Judgment, February 1996. Co-organizer of College Art Association Panel, Rereading Kant and the Object of Art History, 1996 Meeting. Co-Chair of the Program Committee for the American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting, 1995. Manuscript Referee for Rowman, Littlefield, 1995. Co-organizer of Seminar at the Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, Ahumanist Writing, Spring 1994. Manuscript Referee for Vanderbilt University Press, 1994. Member of the Program Committee for the American Society for Aesthetics Fiftieth Anniversary National Meeting, 1992. Member of the Columbia Film Seminar, 1992. Referee for The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1991- .

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SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE Chair of Faculty Council, 2009-. Faculty Council, 1999-2001, 2002-04, 2006-07, 2008- . Presenter of International Lens Films, 2008-. Outside Advisor to Department of Art Search Committee, 2008-2009. Provosts Task Force on Graduate Education, 2008-09. Committee on Educational Programs, Chair, 2008-09. Committee on Film Studies, 1998-2007. Co-director of Robert Penn Warren Research Seminar Between Word and Image, 2006-07. Junior Faculty Mentor, 2006-07. Co-chair of Holocaust Lecture Committee, 2002-04. Strategic Academic Planning Committee of the College of Arts and Science, 2001. Secretary of Faculty Council, 2000-2001, 2003-04. College Program Committee, 2000-1. Committee on Individual Programs, 1997-01. SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT Chair of W. Alton Jones Chair Search Committee, 2008-. Director of Graduate Studies, 2002-2007. Chair of Graduate Program Review Committee, 2004. Departmental Planning Committee, 1999-2001. Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1995-96, 98-2001. Chair of Speakers Committee, 1998-99, 2002-03. Member of Speakers Committee, 1997-98, 99-2000. Member of Graduate Program Review, 1998. Library Representative, 1995-96, 97-98. Reporter for Department Meetings, 1997-98. Member of Undergraduate Major/Minor Revision Committee, 1996.

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DISSERTATION SUPERVISION Completed Anne O'Byrne on The Politics of Self Questioning (May 1999) Clark Buckner on Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of History (March 2004) David Osipovich on Theater and Morality (March 2004) Sarah Cunningham on Kant's Aesthetic Theory (November 2004) Stefan Bird-Pollan on Contemporary Kantian and Hegelian Ethics (October 2007) Kathleen Eamon on the Politics of Symbolism (November 2008) In Progress Erin Bradfield on Art and Silence Johanna Matocha on Hegels Absolute Spirit Yusuf Oz on Foucault, Wittgenstein, and the Concept of Liberation Nat Vaprin on Kants Political Philosophy Matthew Whitt on the Concept of Sovereignty DISSERTATION COMMITTEES Completed Amani al-Bedah Jason Aleksander Robin Ambrose Thomas Anderson (English) Claudia Baracchi Jeffrey Bernstein Scott Borchers Alan Bourassa (Comparative Literature) Curtis Bridgeman Sarah Childress (English) Joanna Crosby Bret Davis Sean Erwin Andrew Fiala Katherine Fusco (English) Heather Garrett (French) Sarah Goodrum (MA, Art History) Jeffrey Jackson Jennifer Holt Gordon Hull Apple Igrek Pascal Massie Jeffrey Menne (English) Joseph Partain Forrest Perry Brian Ribeiro 12

Kenneth Sacks Nicholas Smith Matthew Statler Dylan Suzanne Diane Williamson Jason Winfree Patricia Yahrmatter Scott Zeman In Progress Marianne Allen Joel Beaupre Jens Frederiksen (Political Science) Gesa Frmming (German) Joshua Houston Wesley Lim (German) Mark Looney (German) Brian Rabinovitz Norman Whitman GRADUATE DIRECTED STUDIES Anne O'Byrne on Aesthetics and Politics - Spring 1993 Alan Bourassa on Classical Film Theory - Fall 1994 Jon Mills on Freud - Spring 1995 Jon Mills on Hegel's Logic - Summer 1995 Scott Zeman et al. on Logic of Social Explanation - Fall 1995 Marianne Allen et al. on Classical Psychoanalysis - Spring 2000 Sara Papanek on Contemporary Art Theory - Fall 2000 Scott Borchers et al. on Baudrillard - Fall 2000 Sara Papanek on Hegel's Aesthetic Theory - Spring 2001 Kathleen Eamon on Twentieth Century Marxism - Spring 2003 Katharine Loevy on Kant and Hegel - Spring 2003 Erin Bradfield on Eisenstein, Brecht, and Bazin - Fall 2004 ominic Eggert, Joshua Houston, and Matthew Whitt on Neo-Marxism - Spring 2005 Jens Frederiksen on the Frankfurt School - Spring 2006 Matt Whitt on Frankfurt School Political Theory - Spring 2007 UNDERGRADUATE DIRECTED STUDIES Michael O'Rorke on Philosophical Theories of Cruelty - Fall 1994 Donald Strawser on Film Theory - Spring 1995 Margot Clark on Gender and Performance - Spring 1995 Allison Arnold on Marx - Fall 1995 Brandon Partridge on Political Philosophy - Spring 1996 Andrea Becksvoort on Death and Representation (Honors) - 1995-96 Erica Doerhoff on Benjamin - Fall 1997 13

Ryan Salva on Aesthetics and Politics - Summer 1998 Eothen Alapatt on the Aesthetics of Sampling - Fall 1999 Carrie Cooke on Hegel and Danto - Fall 1999 Sheila Misra on Psychoanalytic Theories of the Body - Fall 2000 Michael Muskhelishvili on Marx - Spring 2001 Alec Rojas on Aesthetic Implications of New Recording Technology - Fall 2004 Dustin Feigerle on Evolution and Social Progress (Honors Thesis) - Fall 2004 Jake LaManna on Contemporary Architectural Theory - Fall 2005

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REFERENCES Professor Peter Kivy Department of Philosophy Davison Hall PO Box 270 Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Professor Lydia Goehr Department of Philosophy 1150 Amsterdam Avenue Columbia University New York, New York 10027 Professor John Compton Department of Philosophy Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37240 Professor Jay M. Bernstein Department of Philosophy 65 Fifth Avenue New School University New York, NY 10003 Professor Arthur C. Danto Department of Philosophy 1150 Amsterdam Avenue Columbia University New York, New York 10027

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