 Assistant Professor of English
Phone Number:
(951) 343-4924
Email Address:
bbiermann@calbaptist.edu
Office Location:
W. E. James Building, Room 481
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Education/Degrees Earned:
Ph.D.
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Humanities
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Universiteit van Amsterdam
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2006
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M.A.
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Theological Studies - Christianity and Culture
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Knox Theological Seminary
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2006
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M.A.
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English Education
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Maryville University
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1997
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B.A.
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English Literature
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University of Missouri at Columbia
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1995
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Additional Education:
International TESOL Certification - Prague, CZ
Academic Areas:
- Literary Theory (semiotics & narratology)
- Film Theory (dietetic / nondiegetic sound & filmic space)
- Pre-Socratic & Classical Philosophy (metaphysics)
- Modern Political Philosophy (ontological opposition of self & state)
- Phenomenology & Ontology (self-consciousness)
- Christian Philosophy/Theology (free will/election debate)
- Biblical Theology (genre analysis)
- Christian Apologetics (philosophical apologetics)
- History of Ideas
Classes Taught:
- English 580: Film Theory
- English 530: Multicultural Theory & Pedagogy
- English 520: Narrative Literature & Theory
- English 407: Major Directors in Film
- English 306: Decade in Film
- English 113: Composition I
- English 123: Composition II
- History 343: 20th Century Europe
- History 333: 19th Century Europe
- English 525: Graduate Non-Western Literature Seminar
- Film 350: Literature and Film
- Film 305: Christianity and Film
- English 263: Survey of World Literature II
- English 201: Introduction to Literature of Majors / Minors
- History 353: Renaissance & Reformation
- Design 240: Movements in 20th Century Design
Teaching Experience:
Maryville University, 2007
James Cook Language Institute, 2006
Saint Louis University, 2002
Research, Presentations and Publications:
"Spatial Distributions of Power: Illegal Billboards as Graffiti in L.A." International Crime, Media & Popular Culture Conference, Terre Haute, Oct. 2009.
"The Postmodern American Church: Paving the Road to Tyranny." Christianity and Literature Conference, Portland, April 2009.
"Travelling Philosophy: From Literature to Film." Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2007.
“Diegetic-Nondiegetic Sound: Spatial & Temporal Markers in Solaris." ASCA Theory Seminar, Amsterdam, February 2004.
“Burgess’ Christianity, Kantian Freedom, & the Illusion of Freewill.” Moral Theory Seminar, St. Louis, April 2003.
Church Membership/Activities:
Mosaic Church - LA
Community Service/Invlovement:
- Biermann's Beard for Books
Interests/Hobbies/Travel/Family:
- Hobbies: Film, Philosophy, Literature, Art, Design, Music, Skateboarding, Writing
- Travel: often
- Family: Beautiful wife Lea
Personal Quote/Scripture/Philosophy of Education:
Personal Quote: "We bounded up, he first and I second, until, through a round opening, I saw some of the lovely things the heavens hold: from there we came out to see once more the stars."
- Dante's Divine Comedy
Scripture: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
- Revelation 21:1-2, NASB
Philosophy of Education: At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive someone saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision...
- Plato's Republic
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