Resumé for Christopher Colvin

Foreign Languages:

German (fluent), French (conversational), Italian (reading), Ancient Greek and modern Turkish (rudimentary), residues of Latin and Lithuanian.

University positions (1987-1995, summer 2004-present)

Boğaziçi University, Bebek-Istanbul, Turkey, Assistant Professor (summers 2004-05, 2007-14, 2017-2024).

Courses include seminars on Plato, Hegel, Being, Schopenhauer, as well "unorthodox" political theory; also survey courses in Ancient, Modern, and German philosophy.

St. Edward's University, Austin Texas, Adjunct Professor (2024-2025).

Austin Community College, Austin, Texas; Lecturer (1995 - 1996).

Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania; Visiting Lecturer with the Civic Education Project, Inc. (1994-1995).

Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania: Visiting Lecturer with the Civic Education Project, Inc. (1995).

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Lecturer (1991-92 and 1993-94).

Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas; Visiting Assistant Professor (1992-1993).

The University of Dallas, Irving, Texas and Rome, Italy; Visiting Assistant Professor 

(1988-1989, Irving; and 1989-1991, Rome).

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; Visiting Assistant Professor (1987-1988).

School positions:

St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Austin, Texas; Instructor in History and in Geometry
(1995 - 2023, retired)

Casady School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; instructor in English, French, and Latin
(1976-1978) 

Publications:

"Platon'un Parmenides'inde (127d-130a), Zeno'nun Benzirlik ve Farklilik Paradokslari Üzerine Ontolojik Noter" in Felsefe Tartişmalari, 47. Kitap.

"Fichte, Schlegel, and the Infinite Interpretation of Plato" a translation of Hans Krämer, "Fichte, Schlegel und der Infinitismus in der Platondeutung" in the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, New School for Social Research, Vol. 21, No. 2, 69-112.

"Plato and the Ontological Square" in Southwest Philosophy Review 8, no.2 (July, 1992): 67-75.

Book Review: H.-G. Gadamer, Plato's Dialectical Ethics, in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66, no.4 (Autumn 1992): 513-516.

"Postcards from Staré Mesto: Is This the Same Place?" in The Prague Post July 21-27, 1992.

Unpublished translations:

"The Current State of Tübingen Plato Scholarship" a translation of Hans Krämer, "Zwischenbilanz der Tübinger Platonforschung" for the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, New School for Social Research

"Aristotle and the Academic Eidoslehre" a translation of H.J. Krämer, "Aristoteles und die Akademische Eidoslehre."

Recent Conferences:

Commentator for West Coast Plato Society 2024 Workshop on the Apology at Seattle University.

Chaired session at West Coast Plato Society 2022 Workshop on Republic I-IV at Stanford University (virtually).

Chaired session on Anaximander at 2016 International Association for Pre-Socratic Studies at University of Texas at Austin.

Sample St. Stephen’s Chapel Talks (linked, the latter three were not presented).

“Space” - inaugural chapel talk at St. Stephen's.

“Petrarch” - on education.

"Affirmative Action"

"Geometry"

"Social Recognition" 

"Five Non-Political Words"

"The Synoptic View"

Ukraine & NATO

St. John's Sante Fe Science Institute

"Euclid and Lobachevsky" (2015)

"The Origins of Algebra" (2016)

Teacher Institutes at St. John's (online) 

Plato's Meno (2021)

Arendt "Crisis of Education" (2023)

Plato's Euthyphro (2023)

The Buddha's Middle Length Discourses (2024)

NEH Summer Seminar

"Petrarch and Provence: Between Seclusion and the World" (Avignon, France, July 2006)

Invited Participant in Liberty Fund Colloquia (2001-2006)

"The Historical and Philosophical Roots of American Constitutionalism" (Pasadena, California, June 2006)

"Liberty and Markets" (Vancouver, Canada, March 2005)

"Liberty and Responsibility in Verdi's Rigoletto" (Indianapolis, Indiana, May 2004)

"Liberty and Responsibility in Madison and Jefferson" (Chicago, Illinois, July 2003)

"Liberty and Responsibility in John Milton's Paradise Lost" (New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2002)

"Beauty and Transcendence: Liberty and Responsibility in Emerson, Thoreau, and the Hudson River School of Painters" (West Point, New York, October 2002)

"The Development of Liberal Culture" (New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2001)

"Beauty and the Education of the Passions in Aristotle and Shaftesbury" (Charleston, South Carolina, June 2001)

Teachers as Scholars Program, The Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

"The Cultures of Cities" Professor Steven Hoelscher, 2009.

"Human Rights and Foreign Policy" Professor Karen Engle, 2006. 

"Darwin and Society" Professor Sahotra Sarkar, 2003.

"Understanding Russia from Gorbachev to the Present " Professor Thomas Garza, 2003

"Mathematics in History " Professor David Saltman, 2001

Opera Supernumerary:

The Pearl Fishers, Austin Opera 2023

The Barber of Seville, Austin Opera 2022

Tosca, Austin Lyric Opera, 2004, 2014, 2021

Silent Night, Austin Opera 2019

The Flying Dutchman, Austin Opera 2016.

Don Giovanni, Austin Opera, 2015.

Elisir d'amore, Austin Lyric Opera 2014.

Turandot, Austin Lyric Opera, 2003, 2012.

Cosi fan tutte, Austin Lyric Opera, 2004.

Aida, Austin Lyric Opera, 1991, 2000.

Otello, Austin Lyric Opera, 1998.

Don Carlo, Dallas Lyric Opera, 1988.