Dr. Becky Vartabedian is an engaged and creative teacher, offering courses in the history of philosophy, in metaphysics, in philosophy’s relationship to art, and philosophy’s intersections with race, gender, and sexuality. Dr. Vartabedian contributes to the First-Year Experience, to the Integrative Core, and to the Peace and Justice and Women’s and Gender Studies programs.
Dr. Vartabedian maintains an active research program. She is a specialist in 20th and 21st century Continental philosophy, with interests in metaphysics (questions of being, becoming, and change), philosophical logic, critical phenomenology (especially critical race phenomenology and whiteness studies), aesthetics, art-making, and the environmental humanities. This work is informed by her rigorous training in the history of philosophy. She attends to ideas in their original contexts, and she contends that this attention is helpful for understanding any idea’s contemporary significance.
Dr. Vartabedian believes in collaborative research practices and works directly with students to research and write toward academic publication. Most recently she has worked with a group of Philosophy majors and minors to produce a book chapter on the work of contemporary American philosopher George Yancy. This book chapter is part of the forthcoming volume from Rowman and Littlefield Press titled George Yancy: a Critical Reader.
Before returning to Regis in 2012 - Dr. Vartabedian is a 2001 graduate of Regis - she taught at the Community College of Aurora, at Metro State University of Denver, and at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where she completed her Ph.D.
