Leroy Searle is a distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

, author, musician, and poet. His lifelong areas of study are American literature, history and theory of criticism,

modernism Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

, European and comparative romanticism, music arrangement and performance, photography, intellectual history and philosophy, and computer science. Specifically, Searle explores, and has published works on, philosophers such as

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of ph ...

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake ...

Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aest ...

, and

Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for t ...

. He also specializes in notable American authors such as

Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...

William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most o ...

, and

Walt Whitman Walter Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among ...

. In 2007, Searle was named the first Hanauer Honors professor. In this University of Washington Honors Program founded by Northwest Businessman Joff Hanauer, Searle teaches an annual class on topics related to Western Intellectual History. In addition, he is actively involved in the Honors Program, which includes serving on the Honors Faculty Council. Searle was the founding director of the UW Humanities and Arts Computer Center, the former director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Humanities Center, and the director of the College Studies Program. He is one of the founding faculty members of the Program in Criticism and Theory, Comparative History of Ideas Program, and the Textual Studies Program. He has extensively served as the Graduate Program Coordinator in Comparative Literature. He served for three decades on the UW Intellectual Property Management Advisory Committee, and as chair in the year before the committee's function was integrated into UW Co-Motion. Searle's current project is the establishment of the "Tautegory Institute," for the development of cross disciplinary conversations, critical reading, and research. Searle received his bachelor's degree in English at Utah State University in 1965. Five years later, he acquired a master's (1968) and Ph.D. degree (1970) in English at the University of Iowa.

Current works in progress

*"Plato, Aristotle, and the Poets" *"Visible Intelligence: Essays on Photography, Theory and Criticism" *"Imaginative Reason: Essays in Philosophical Criticism"

Partial bibliography

*''Radical, Rational, Space, Time: Idea Networks in Photography'' (1983) *''Critical Theory since 1965'' (1985) *''Conceptual Structures: Fulfilling Peirce's Dream; Fifth International Conference on Conceptual Structures'' (1997) *''Concerning the Power of the Preposition: The Photographs of Nathan Lyons'' (2004) *''Technology and the Perils of Poetry; or Why Criticism Never Catches Up'' (2004) *''Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies'' (2004) *''Critical Theory Since Plato'' (coedited with Hazard Adams) (2005) *''Textual Authority, Textual Integrity: The Cultural Importance of Editorial Ethics'' (2006) *''Literature Departments and the Practice of Theory'' (2006) *''From Inference to Insight: a Peircean Model of Literary Reasoning'' (2008) *''Prospects for Theorizing'', vol. 25 (2007), 37-79 (published 2009)

References

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