Philosophy Department Faculty
Vanessa Parks Rumble
Associate Professor
Vanessa Parks Rumble
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall North Room 239
Telephone: 617-552-3865
Email: vanessa.rumble@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D. Emory University
Courses
- German Romanticism and Idealism, Kierkegaard
- Freud and Philosophy
- Perspectives on Art
Research Interests
- Søren Kierkegaard, German Romanticism, History of Philosophy
- Psychoanalysis
Department
Professional Activities/Awards
Keynote: “Taking on the Idols of the Tribe: Kierkegaard as Existentialist,” Ninth International Kierkegaard Conference (virtual), Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, May 6, 2022.
Conference Organizer: “Love and Mourning in the Constitution of the Subject: Recent Psychoanalytic Perspectives, October 17, 2016. ILA Major Grant, 2016.
Conference Organizer: “After the Unspeakable: Trauma, Nachträglichkeit, and Coming to Terms,” March 22-24, 2012. ILA Major Grant, 2011.
2005 Phi Beta Kappa Award for Teaching Excellence.
1999 Boston College’s Nominee: CASE U.S. Professor of the Year.