About Us

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

Professor; Director: Center for University Studies and Programs

BA: Philosophy, University of Colorado
MAR: Religion, Literature, and Counseling, Yale Divinity School
MA: English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
PhD: Interdisciplinary Studies,  Emory University

Office: UW2 030C
Phone: 425.352.3670
Email: gklindgren@uwb.edu
Mailing: Box 358530 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246

Teaching

Teaching provides an opportunity for personal and social metamorphosis, that is accomplished through a changed relationship to different points in the network that we call culture. The success of this effort depends upon creating a space of dialogue, exchange, and trust so that we can all better learn how to direct our own learning. The hope is that this work will offer the possibility of ethics, engender new forms of making, and generate that sure marker of learning, a surprised pleasure.

Recent Courses Taught

BCUSP 104: Dreaming the Earth
BCUSP 117: Traveling Knowledge
BIS 460: Critical Theory: Ghosts in Contemporary Thought
BIS 493: Technologies of Expression: Book-Film-Computer

Research/Scholarship

My research, like my teaching, works to open up a deepened network of meanings through making cross-disciplinary and cross-genre connections. As I attempt to respond to some of the pressing questions facing us all, my current work focuses on the humanities and questions concerning technology, aesthetics, and the nature of the 21st century university. I am interested, among a host of other things, in cafés, ghosts, cyborgs, and the enigma of reading.

Selected Publications

Books

Articles