Victor E Taylor
Victor E. Taylor (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Extended Studies/Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at South Dakota State University. He oversees the Graduate School, the Center for Continuing and Distance Education (CDE), the Center for Instructional Design Services (IDS), and the Center for Professional Enrichment and Teaching Excellence (CPETE). His work also supports initiatives in global education, XR-based instruction and design, and community engagement. In 2023-24, he served as the Interim Dean of SDSU's College of Education and Human Sciences.
He currently is the editor of a new interdisciplinary book series with Parlor Press, Emerging Conversations in the Global Humanities, 2022: https://parlorpress.com/pages/emerging-conversations-in-the-global-humanities.
In his time at York College of Pennsylvania, he was the inaugural Senior Academic Officer (SAO/Director) of the Division of Graduate Studies and Professional Programs, Director of the Institute for Civic Arts and Humanities, Chair of the English and humanities department, Interim Dean of the Graham School of Business, and director of the Presidential Research Fellows Honors Program. He also served as the program coordinator and committee chair for English literary studies, the coordinator for "disciplinary perspectives" in the college-wide general education program (GenNext), and the principal investigator for a Center for Teaching and Learning grant on the urban humanities.
His areas of scholarly interest are in comparative literature, philosophy, religious theory, and civic humanities, with a recent focus on higher ed. leadership. He is co-founder and executive editor of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (www.jcrt.org), the former director of academic publishing for Davies Group, Publishers, the founding director of the YCP Institute for Civic Arts and Humanities, and the co-founder, with Carl A. Raschke (University of Denver), of The Global Art and Ideas Nexus (www.global-art-ideas.com), a digital critical discourse aggregator. In 2015, he completed the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education Management Development Program (MDP), which is an international higher ed. leadership program.
Dr. Taylor has published widely in the humanities. He is the author of Para/Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture (Routledge 2000), The Religious Prayed, The Profane Swear (Pen Mark Press 2002/ Second expanded edition, 2012), Religion After Postmodernism (The University of Virginia Press 2008), and Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral Heritages (Palgrave MacMillan 2017). He is the co-editor of Postmodernism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 1998) , The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, with the late Charles E. Winquist, (2000: Spanish 2002, Russian 2003), Jean-François Lyotard: Critical Assessment, vols. I-III, with Gregg Lambert, (Routledge 2005), Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition, with Keith Gilyard, (Davies, 2009), Conversations in Cultural and Religious Theory (Davies 2013) and Divisible Derridas, with Stephen G. Nichols, (Davies 2017).
Dr. Taylor has been a research associate at the Jacques Derrida Archives at the University of California, Irvine and a visiting scholar in comparative literature at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania. From 2004 to 2016, he was a research associate and continuing visiting scholar at The Johns Hopkins University. He has been the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship for advanced literary studies seminars held at Yale University and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. He also has been the recipient of grants from The Pennsylvania Humanities Council, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. The NEH and DAAD awards included participation in a teacher's seminar on the culture of psychoanalysis through the Institute for German Cultural Studies at Cornell University.
He is an alumnus of The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University and series co- editor, with Stephen G. Nichols, of Rethinking Theory with The Johns Hopkins University Press, and series editor for Critical Studies in the Humanities and Emergence with Davies Group, Publishers.
He currently is the editor of a new interdisciplinary book series with Parlor Press, Emerging Conversations in the Global Humanities, 2022: https://parlorpress.com/pages/emerging-conversations-in-the-global-humanities.
In his time at York College of Pennsylvania, he was the inaugural Senior Academic Officer (SAO/Director) of the Division of Graduate Studies and Professional Programs, Director of the Institute for Civic Arts and Humanities, Chair of the English and humanities department, Interim Dean of the Graham School of Business, and director of the Presidential Research Fellows Honors Program. He also served as the program coordinator and committee chair for English literary studies, the coordinator for "disciplinary perspectives" in the college-wide general education program (GenNext), and the principal investigator for a Center for Teaching and Learning grant on the urban humanities.
His areas of scholarly interest are in comparative literature, philosophy, religious theory, and civic humanities, with a recent focus on higher ed. leadership. He is co-founder and executive editor of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (www.jcrt.org), the former director of academic publishing for Davies Group, Publishers, the founding director of the YCP Institute for Civic Arts and Humanities, and the co-founder, with Carl A. Raschke (University of Denver), of The Global Art and Ideas Nexus (www.global-art-ideas.com), a digital critical discourse aggregator. In 2015, he completed the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education Management Development Program (MDP), which is an international higher ed. leadership program.
Dr. Taylor has published widely in the humanities. He is the author of Para/Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture (Routledge 2000), The Religious Prayed, The Profane Swear (Pen Mark Press 2002/ Second expanded edition, 2012), Religion After Postmodernism (The University of Virginia Press 2008), and Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral Heritages (Palgrave MacMillan 2017). He is the co-editor of Postmodernism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 1998) , The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, with the late Charles E. Winquist, (2000: Spanish 2002, Russian 2003), Jean-François Lyotard: Critical Assessment, vols. I-III, with Gregg Lambert, (Routledge 2005), Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition, with Keith Gilyard, (Davies, 2009), Conversations in Cultural and Religious Theory (Davies 2013) and Divisible Derridas, with Stephen G. Nichols, (Davies 2017).
Dr. Taylor has been a research associate at the Jacques Derrida Archives at the University of California, Irvine and a visiting scholar in comparative literature at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania. From 2004 to 2016, he was a research associate and continuing visiting scholar at The Johns Hopkins University. He has been the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship for advanced literary studies seminars held at Yale University and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. He also has been the recipient of grants from The Pennsylvania Humanities Council, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. The NEH and DAAD awards included participation in a teacher's seminar on the culture of psychoanalysis through the Institute for German Cultural Studies at Cornell University.
He is an alumnus of The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University and series co- editor, with Stephen G. Nichols, of Rethinking Theory with The Johns Hopkins University Press, and series editor for Critical Studies in the Humanities and Emergence with Davies Group, Publishers.
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