Curriculum Vitae
Michael K. Raiger
Office:
Department of Philosophy
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3859
(617) 552-3973
e-mail: michael.raiger.1@bc.edu
Present Academic Position
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Fall 2002-present
Past Academic Positions
Lecturer, Department of English, Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, Spring 2004
Assistant Professor, Department of Literature and the Arts, St. John’s Seminary College of Liberal Arts, Brighton, Massachusetts, Fall 2002-Spring 2003
Lecturer, Department of Literature and the Arts, St. John’s Seminary College of Liberal Arts, Brighton, Massachusetts, Fall 2000-Spring 2002
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
Lecturer, Department of English, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, Fall 1999-Fall 2000
Education
Ph.D., English and American Literature, New York University, 2002
M.A., Philosophy, Boston College, 1989
B.A., cum laude, Philosophy, History, The University of Iowa, 1986
Dissertation
Coleridge, Hartley, and Berkeley: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics, 1794-1796.
Manuscripts in Progress
Materialist and Radical: A Study of Coleridge’s Philosophical, Political, and Religious Thought from 1795 to 1798 (Submitted for review to Fordham University Press)
Scholarly Articles
“‘The translucence of the Eternal through and in the Temporal’: Coleridge’s Theory of Symbol and the Distinction between Reason and Understanding.” Forthcoming in the Radical Orthodoxy Series, Ed. John Milbank and Graham Ward (Routledge, 2004).
“The Intellectual Breeze, the Corporeality of Thought, and the Eolian Harp: Coleridge’s Early Natural Philosophy.” The Coleridge Bulletin 20 (2002): 76-84.
“Coleridge, Freud, and the Interpretation of Dreams.” Philosophy Today 45 (2001): 286-309.
“Coleridge’s Metaphysics and the Method of Deconstruction from Bacon to Heidegger.” The Coleridge Bulletin 14 (1999): 16-25.
“‘Poised, but on the Quiver’: The Paradox of Free Will and Grace in Hopkins’s ‘Spring’ and ‘(Carrion Comfort)’.” Religion and the Arts 3 (1999): 64-95.
“Sidney’s Defense of Plato.” Religion and Literature 30 (1998): 21-57.
“‘Large and Startling Figures’: The Grotesque and the Sublime in the Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor.” In Seeing Into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religious Experience. Ed. John L. Mahoney (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998): 242-270.
“The Poetics of Liberation in Imaginative Power: Coleridge’s ‘This Lime Tree Bower My Prison’.” European Romantic Review 3 (1992): 65-78.
“The ‘Epitaph’ of S.T.C. and the Path to God: Coleridge’s Later Poems.” The Wordsworth Circle 21 (1990): 101-105.
“Plotinus on Matter.” Lyceum 2 (1990): 37-51.
Invited Lectures
“The Recantation of Liberty in Coleridge’s ‘France: An Ode’.” Plenary Lecture presented at the Ninth Coleridge Summer Conference, July 22-28, 2004, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, England.
“Freud and Tolkien on Fantasy and Desire.” Lecture delivered to Perspectives Program students and faculty. April 16, 2003. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Conference Presentations
“The Location of Coleridge’s ‘France: An Ode’.” Presented at the Eleventh Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, August 1-5, 2003, Fordham University, New York, New York.
“‘The translucence of the Eternal through and in the Temporal’: Coleridge’s Theory of Symbol and the Distinction between Reason and Understanding.” Presented at the conference “Illumination: Reason, Revelation and Science,” July 23-26, 2002, St. Stephen’s House, Oxford, England.
“The Intellectual Breeze, the Corporeality of Thought, and the Eolian Harp: Coleridge’s Early Natural Philosophy.” Presented at the Eighth Coleridge Summer Conference, July 18-24, 2002, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, England.
“‘I am a compleat Necessitarian’: Corporeality and the Motion of Thought in Coleridge’s Theory of Association.” Presented at the Seventh Coleridge Summer Conference, July 20-26, 2000, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, England.
“The Appearance of the ‘Uncanny’ in Coleridge’s Distinction between Dream and ‘Night-mair’.” Presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of The Nineteenth Century Studies Association, March 23-25, 2000, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia.
“Coleridge’s Metaphysics and the Method of Deconstruction from Bacon through Kant to
Heidegger.” Presented at the Sixth Coleridge Summer Conference, July 23-29, 1998, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, England.
“Coleridge, Freud, and the Interpretation of Dreams.” Presented at the First Joint Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the British Association for Romantic Studies, July 6-10, 1998, St. Mary’s University College, Strawberry Hill, England.
“The Psalms and Ignatian Spirituality: Hopkins’s ‘Spring’ and ‘(Carrion Comfort)’.” Presented at the Fifth Annual St. Charles Borromeo Conference on Catholicism and Literature, April 22-24, 1998, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas.
“Coleridge, Kierkegaard, and the Dialogic Imagination in the Discourse of Faith.” Presented at the Fourth Coleridge Summer Conference, July 22-27, 1994, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, England.
Referee/Consultant
Fordham University Press
Routledge
Professional Organizations
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
The Friends of Coleridge
The Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Academic Awards
Robert Halsband Dissertation Fellowship for Eighteenth-century study, Department of English, New York University, 1998-99 Academic Year
University Scholarship, Department of English, New York University, 1993-94 Academic Year