
Director, Humanities and Cultural Studies
School of Art, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Phone: 415-482-1821
Email: chase.clow@dominican.edu
Education
Ph.D. (in progress) Environmental Humanities in the Transformative Studies Dept., California Institute of Integral Studies
My research centers around the epistemology of nature via landscape photography and the dialogical possibilities between humans and the rest of the natural world.
M.A. Humanities, Dominican University of California
Thesis Title: 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
Native American Literature & Philosophy
Land and Cultural Identity
Sufi Poetry and other poetic expressions of transcendence
Courses Taught
Humanities & Cultural Studies
- Classics of the U.S. Environmental Movement -- CLQ 3300
- Foundations: Pluralistic American Culture – SCS 3160
- Humanities Seminar: Great Books of the West – HCS 4930
- Humanities Seminar: Great Books of the Non-West – HCS 4931
- Humanities Senior Workshop – HCS 4920
- Radical Response: Human Rights and Social Activism in a Changing World – CQHO 4040
Religion
- Spirituality of the Earth – RLGN 1070/3170
Literature and Writing
- Food in Literature – ENGL 4040
- Monsters in the Literary Imagination – ENGL 1000
- African American Literature – ENGL 3062
- Poetry Analysis – ENGL 2302/3302
- Critical Inquiry & Reflective Writing – ENGL 3442
- Expository Writing – ENGL 1004
Online Courses
- Humanities Seminar: Great Books – OL: HUM 4930U
- Foundations: American Pluralistic Culture – OL: SCS 3160
Other
- Senior Project Reader for Humanities and Cultural Studies Students, including arts-based research and environmental humanities
- Independent Study Supervisor