Dooley, Mark 1970-

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DOOLEY, Mark 1970-

PERSONAL:

Born January 12, 1970, in Dublin, Ireland; married Laura Connaughton, July 21, 2000. Education: University of Dublin, B.A., 1991, M.A., 1993, Ph.D, 1997. Politics: "Center."

ADDRESSES:

Home—9 Bayview Park, Killiney, Dublin, Ireland. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Fordham University Press, Box L, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, 10458. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Educator and author. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, assistant lecturer and senior tutor, 1993-95, faculty of arts fellow, 1995-97, assistant lecturer, 1997-99, Newman Scholar in theology, 1999-2002, visiting research fellow in philosophy, 2002-03; National University of Ireland, Maynooth, lecturer in philosophy, 1998-99.

AWARDS, HONORS:

St. Olaf College, Hong and Hong Kierkegaard Research fellowship, 1995; University College, Dublin, Faculty of Arts Teaching fellowship, 1995.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Richard Kearney) Questioning Ethics, Routledge (New York, NY), 1999.

The Politics of Exodus: Søren Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility, Fordham University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

(Editor, with John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon) Questioning God, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 2001.

(Translator, with Michael Hughes) Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, Routledge (New York, NY), 2001.

(Editor) A Passion for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2003.

The Catastrophe of Memory, McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Canada), 2004.

The Philosophy of Jacques Derrida, Acumen (London, England), in press.

Contributor to books, including Kierkegaard: The Self and Society, edited by George Pattison and Steven Shakespeare, Macmillan, 1998. Contributor to journals, including Philosophy and Social Criticism, Philosophy Today, and Imprimatur.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

After Theism and Atheism: Kierkegaard, Derrida, and Rorty.

SIDELIGHTS:

Educator Mark Dooley has edited a number of works that focus on the ethics-based philosophies of twentieth-century thinkers. He has also worked as a translator, collaborating with Michael Hughes to present two essays by French philosopher Jacques Derrida to English-language readers in On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. Derrida is also the focus of Questioning God, a 2001 work coedited by Dooley, in which essayists "deal almost exclusively with the significance (or lack thereof) of Derrida's de-constructive method for philosophical theology," according to W. David Hall in the Journal of Religion. While noting that the collection is "not a book for the faint of heart" due to the scholarly tone of the writers included—most contributions are papers delivered at a conference titled "Religion and Postmodernity 2: Questioning God," held at Villanova University in 1999—Hall nonetheless noted that Questioning God serves as "worthwhile read[ing] for those interested in the intersection of postmodern philosophy and (largely Christian) theology" and presents "a set of questions and debates that characterize the contemporary situation of theology and the study of religion."