Dr. Becky Vartabedian is an engaged and creative teacher, offering courses in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy and art, and philosophy’s intersections with race, gender, and sexuality. She also contributes courses to the Peace and Justice Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and First Year Experience programs. Before returning to Regis in 2012 -Dr. Vartabedian is a 2001 graduate of Regis College – she taught philosophy at the Community College of Aurora, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where she earned her Ph.D.
Dr. Vartabedian’s primary areas of expertise are contemporary Continental philosophy and critical phenomenology, addressing figures like Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jane Bennett, George Yancy, and Fred Evans. She is the author of Multiplicity and Ontology in Deleuze and Badiou (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and authored the entry on Alain Badiou at the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers, forthcoming in 2020.
Dr. Vartabedian’s research demonstrates philosophy’s share in our contemporary world, with particular interests in philosophy’s conversation with aesthetic practices (especially photography), urban development, history, and social and political concerns. Her current work concerns philosophical approaches to hospitality and their import for addressing issues of urban life, namely gentrification and economic development; this theoretical project has its practical focus on the Brighton Boulevard corridor and River North neighborhoods in Denver.
Dr. Vartabedian is an avid baseball fan, especially of the Pittsburgh Pirates. She appeared on an episode of Jeopardy! In 2008; she did not win, though she is occasionally handy to have around at a trivia night.
Dr. Vartabedian is on sabbatical during the 2020-2021 academic year.
