Andrew Kania ~ Curriculum
Vitae
Employment
Assistant Professor, Trinity
University (2005-present)
Education
Ph.D. (Philosophy)
University of Maryland,
College Park (2005)
Dissertation: Pieces of Music:
The Ontology of Classical, Rock, and Jazz Music
M.A. with first class honours
(Philosophy)
University of Auckland, New
Zealand (1999)
Thesis: Not Just for the
Record: A Philosophical Analysis of Classical Music Recordings
AIKOM Study Abroad Program
University of Tokyo,
Komaba (1996)
B.A. (Philosophy and English)
University of Auckland, New
Zealand (1996)
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Music,
Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Film
Publications
Edited Books
Philosophers on
Memento (Routledge, forthcoming)
Refereed articles and chapters
‘Performances and Recordings’
Philosophy Compass (forthcoming).
‘Piece for the End of Time: In
Defense of Musical Ontology’ British Journal of Aesthetics
(forthcoming).
‘Philosophy of Music’ Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (forthcoming).
‘New Waves in Musical Ontology’ in
New Waves in Aesthetics, ed. Kathleen Stock and Katherine
Thomson-Jones (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
‘Works, Recordings, Performances:
Classical, Rock, Jazz’ in Philosophical Reflections on Recorded
Music, ed. Mine Dogantan Dack (Middlesex University Press,
forthcoming).
‘Worlds are Colliding! Explaining the
Fictional in Terms of the Real’ Philosophical Studies 135
(2007): 65-71.
‘Making Tracks: The Ontology of Rock
Music’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (2006):
401-14.
‘Against the Ubiquity of Fictional
Narrators’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63 (2005):
47-54.
‘The Illusion of Realism in Film’
British Journal of Aesthetics 42 (2002): 243-58.
Non-refereed articles and chapters
Review of Works of Music by
Julian Dodd. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
(forthcoming).
‘Introduction’ to Philosophers on
Memento, ed. Andrew Kania (Routledge, forthcoming).
‘Memento and the Ontology of
Popular Cinema’ in Philosophers on Memento, ed. Andrew Kania
(Routledge, forthcoming).
‘Against Them, Too: A Reply to Alward’
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (forthcoming).
‘Realism’ in The Routledge
Companion to Philosophy and Film, ed. Paisley Livingston and
Carl Plantinga (Routledge, forthcoming).
‘Memento’ in The Routledge
Companion to Philosophy and Film, ed. Paisley Livingston and
Carl Plantinga (Routledge, forthcoming).
Review of Art as Performance
by David Davies. Mind 114 (2005): 137-41.
Review of Arguing about Art
(second edition), ed. Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley. American
Society for Aesthetics Newsletter 24/2 (2004): 3-5.
Review of Musical Works and
Performances by Stephen Davies. Mind 112 (2003): 513-18.
Presentations
Forthcoming
‘Julian Dodd’s Works of Music’
American Society for Aesthetics,
Annual Meeting (2007)
Refereed
‘Fundamentalism, Scepticism, and
Higher-Level Musical Ontology’
American Society for Aesthetics,
Pacific Division Meeting (2007)
‘Gary Iseminger’s The Aesthetic
Function of Art’
American Philosophical
Association, Pacific Division Meeting (2007)
Comments on Nicholas Diehl’s
‘Fictional Narration and the Ontological-Gap Debate’
American Philosophical
Association, Central Division Meeting (2007)
‘All Play and No Work: The Ontology
of Jazz’
American Society for Aesthetics,
Annual Meeting (2006)
‘Working Backwards: Memento
and the Ontology of Popular Cinema’
Society for the Philosophic Study
of the Contemporary Visual Arts (2006)
‘In Defense of Musical Ontology’
American Philosophical
Association, Eastern Division Meeting (2005)
‘In Defense of Musical Ontology’
American Society for Aesthetics,
Annual Meeting (2005)
‘Works and Other Art Objects’
American Society for Aesthetics,
Annual Meeting (2004)
‘The Ontology of Rock Music’
American Society for Aesthetics,
Annual Meeting (2003)
Comments on Susan Purviance’s ‘The
Character of Moral Beauty’
Midsouth Philosophy Conference
(2003)
‘Against the Ubiquity of Narrators’
American Society for Aesthetics,
Annual Meeting (2002)
‘A Minimalist Theory of Narrators’
NEH Summer Institute: Art, Mind,
and Cognitive Science (2002)
‘The Illusion of Realism in Film’
American Society for Aesthetics,
Annual Meeting (2001)
‘Authentic Recording Practice’
American Society for Aesthetics,
Annual Meeting (1998)
‘Studio Performance: For an
Audience?’
Australasian Association for
Philosophy (NZ Division), Annual Conference (1998)
Invited
‘Pieces of Music: Works,
Performances, and Recordings in Classical, Rock, and Jazz Music’
Faculty-Research Dinner, Trinity
University (2006)
‘Art and the Aesthetic: Some Axes to
Grind’
Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy,
Oberlin College (2006)
‘“Write this Down!”: The Aesthetic
Implications of Memento’
Thinking on the Boundaries: The
Availability of Philosophy in Film and Literature. Seventh Annual
Comparative Literature Conference, University of South Carolina
(2005)
‘All Play and No Work: The Ontology
of Jazz’
Department of Philosophy, Trinity
University, San Antonio, TX (2005)
Commentator on Jenefer Robinson’s
‘Expression in Music’
American Philosophical
Association, Pacific Division Meeting (2004)
Grants
2006 Inaugural Lennox
Seminar, Trinity University
Awards
2005 Trinity University
Summer Stipend
2004 Philosophy Department
Summer Stipend
Distinguished
Teaching Assistant Award
American Society for
Aesthetics Graduate Travel Stipend
Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant
2003 American Society for
Aesthetics Graduate Travel Stipend
Cosmos Club
Foundation Grant-in-Aid for Scholarship
2002 American Society for
Aesthetics Graduate Travel Stipend
2001 American Society for
Aesthetics Graduate Travel Stipend
2000-04 University of
Maryland
Graduate Fellowship
1999 Choir of the World (as
a member of the NZ National Youth Choir)
Grand Prix Slovakia
(as a member of the NZ National Youth Choir)
University of
Auckland
Arts and Cultural Blue in Choral Singing
University of
Auckland
Tutor Training Certificate
1997-98 University of
Auckland
Masters Scholarship
Ryoichi Sasakawa
Young Leaders Scholarship
Extracurricular Activities
2003-04 Thomas Circle Singers
2002-03 Concertmaster, University
of Maryland
Repertoire Orchestra
Guest conductor,
University of Maryland Chorale
2000 Guest conductor,
University of Maryland Chamber
Singers
1999 Guest conductor, New
Zealand National Youth Choir
1997-99 New Zealand National Youth
Choir
1993-99 Auckland University
Singers (President, 1995-99)
Auckland Dorian Choir
(Committee member 1997-99, Chair 1998)
Recordings
Choir of the World
(New Zealand National Youth Choir:
Trust)
Winds that Whisper (New
Zealand National Youth Choir:
Trust)
Enzso2 (New
Zealand National Youth Choir: Sony)
New Zealand Choral Music
(Auckland University Singers: Kiwi)
Sing a Song of Sixpence
(Auckland Dorian Choir: Ode)