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Kevin Murphy PhD
Chair, Department of Humanities
k [dot] murphy [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215.596.8725
Dr. Murphy received his BA degree from Towson State University and his MA and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park. He arrived at University of the Sciences in August 2009 after fifteen years in the Midwest. He teaches a...
Jeffrey M. Brown, PhD
j [dot] brown [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215-596-8904
Dr. Brown received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where his research focused on intersections between British literature and theatrical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Prior...
Martin Oliver Carrion, MPP, PhD
m [dot] carrion [at] usciences [dot] edu
Dr. Carrion’s main research focuses on interdisciplinary readings of Andean and Mexican colonial texts, cultural productions, Transatlantic Studies, Post-colonial Studies, and Latino Studies. He currently teaches Latino/as Studies, Spanish...
Leah Comeau, PhD
l [dot] comeau [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215-596-8587
Dr. Leah Comeau is a scholar of religion in South Asia, material religion, intersectional feminist studies, and Tamil studies. She works on a wide array of South Indian authors and texts from the earliest attestations up until the present day....
Michael Dockray MA
m [dot] dockra [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215.596.8907
Michael Dockray began teaching at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (then Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science) in 1987 when he was hired to create and teach courses in English as a Second Language and to teach courses in...
Anne Marie Flanagan PhD
a [dot] flanag [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215.895.1132
Dr. Flanagan holds a PhD, MA and BA from Temple University. Her current research concerns the relationship of Henry James’s The Bostonians to anti-suffrage literature. Dr. Flanagan also studies modern British and American literature, film...
Christine Flanagan MFA
c [dot] flanag [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215.596.7543
In addition to developing travel-based coursework in the Humanities and a Minor in Creative Writing, Professor Flanagan’s teaching and scholarship reflects her varied interests and activities: writing fiction, nonfiction, and drama;...
Paul Halpern PhD
p [dot] halper [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215.596.8913
Dr. Halpern's areas of expertise include the history of physics, cultural aspects of physics and theoretical astrophysics & cosmology. He is the author of numerous books and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002....
Laurie G. Kirszner PhD
l [dot] kirszn [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215.596.8899
Laurie Kirszner teaches courses in composition, literature, and creative writing and works closely with students who are writing minors. Dr. Kirszner is coauthor of over a dozen popular college writing textbooks, including literature anthologies...
Clifford Robinson, PhD, BA
cl [dot] robinson [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215-596-8525
My research focuses on the relationship between ancient Greek and Latin literature, philosophy, and politics. My current book project treats the Latin consolatory literature of Cicero, Seneca, and Boethius. In these works, the authors offer...
Samuel Talcott PhD
s [dot] talcott [at] usciences [dot] edu | 215.596.7129
Dr. Talcott’s research interests cover topics from the history of philosophy, continental philosophy, ethics, philosophy of medicine, social-political philosophy, and philosophy of the life sciences. Dr. Talcott is developing and teaching...