Chase Clow

Chase Clow

Director, Humanities and Cultural Studies
Interim Director, Planning and Programming, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Instructor, Humanities
School of Art, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Phone: 415-482-1821
Email: chase.clow@dominican.edu

Education

Ph.D. (in progress)  Environmental Humanities in Transformative Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies.
My main inquiry centers around the epistomology of nature via the arts and the transformative value of reciprocity with the more-than-human world, aka nature.
M.A. Humanities, Dominican University of California.
Graduate Thesis: Making Peace with Contradictions: Reflections of Territory and Identity in Israel/Palestine.

Research Interests

  • Environmental Art and Philosophy; History and Practice of Nature Photography
  • American Cultural Pluralism
  • Indigenous Cosmology and Resource Management
  • Native American Literature
  • Land, Borders, and Cultural Identity
  • 19th and 20th Century American Literature
  • Sufi Poetry and other poetic expressions of transcendence

Courses Taught

Literature and Writing

  • Food in Literature – ENGL 4040 (F2007)

  • Monsters in the Literary Imagination -- ENGL 1000  (F2004)

  • African American Literature -- ENGL 3062  (SP2005)

  • Poetry Analysis -- ENGL 2302 and 3302 (F2003, F2005)

  • Critical Inquiry & Reflective Writing -- ENGL 3442  (SP2005)

  • Expository Writing -- ENGL 1004  (F2005, SP2005, SP2006)

Humanities & Cultural Studies and Religion

  • Spirit of the Earth -- RLGN 1070/3170 (SU2010)
  • Foundations: Immigrant Nation, Pluralistic Culture – SCS 3160 (every semester since F2004)

  • Humanities Seminar: Great Books  – HUM 4930 (F2007, F2009)

  • Humanities Senior Workshops I and II – HUM 4920 (F2007)

  • Radical Response: Human Rights and Social Activism in a Changing World – CQHO 4040 (F2006)

Online Courses

  • Humanities Seminar: Great Books  – HUM 4930U (SU2008)

  • Foundations: American Pluralistic Culture – SCS 3160U (SP2005, F2005)

Other

  • Capstone Project Reader for Humanities and Cultural Studies Students

  • Independent Study Faculty