Brian Treanor
Brian Treanor is the current Casassa Chair in Social Values, Professor of Philosophy in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the academic director of the Academy of Catholic Thought & Imagination at Loyola Marymount University. He received his Ph.D. from Boston College where he studied with Richard Kearney and Jacques Taminiaux.
Early life
Brian Treanor was born in California. He completed his undergraduate degree in political science at University of California, Los Angeles and attended both California State University, Long Beach and Boston College for his graduate work.Research
Treanor's research is in the area of philosophical hermeneutics, with significant focus on environmental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and ethics. He is the author or editor of six books:Carnal Hermeneutics, co-edited with Richard Kearney Being in Creation: Human Responsibility in an Endangered World, co-edited with Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, co-edited with Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur, co-edited with Henry Isaac Venema Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel and the Contemporary DebateHe has also written numerous article related to his field.