Troy
Camplin, Ph.D.
707
Pinehurst Dr.
Richardson,
TX 75080
214-708-9833
troycamplin@gmail.com
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2004) The University of Texas at
Dallas, Aesthetic Studies, School of Arts & Humanities (Fields:
Bioaesthetics, Novel, Tragedy)
M.A. (2000) The University of Southern
Mississippi, English (Field: Creative Writing)
B.S. (1993) Western Kentucky University,
Recombinant Gene Technology (Minor in Chemistry)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012 – Present University of North Texas at Dallas
Lecturer -- English
2012-2013 Adjunct Professor
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Taught Developmental Writing, English Composition
I and II; developed the developmental writing NCBO for the department
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Developed classes: Contemporary Moral
Issues, Writing for Performance
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Developed online classes: Intro. to
Philosophy, Contemporary Moral Issues
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Attended professional development
seminars/conferences on developmental writing
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Same as Collin College
July – Dec 2012 The George W. Bush Center
Writing Consultant
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Consulted on writing for Eric Bing and Marc
Epstein on their book on global health, Pharmacy
on a Bicycle
2008 – 2012 The
Emerson Institute for Freedom and Culture
President and Editor
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Editing the Emerson Institute online
journal; writing editorials and reviews for the journal; recruiting authors to
publish in the journal
2009-2010 Richland
College
2004 - 2006 Adjunct Professor
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Same as Collin College
2009-2010 Collin
College
Adjunct Professor
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Worked with various educational
institutions; formed relationships with students and staff; planned, organized,
and prepared for various classes; created assessments; organized, planned and
prepared oral presentations; worked with very limited supervision; developed
plans and strategies which I then implemented; organized information easily;
have provided guidance to students and colleagues
2009-2010 Dallas
Hub Theater
DFW Playwrights’ Alliance
Producer/Playwright
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Recruit playwrights to participate in
festivals; recruit actors for plays; advertise festivals; collaborate with
DFWPA partners on several projects; conduct meetings; wrote an award-winning
play
2008 The
Prometheus Institute
Adjunct Scholar
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Wrote popular articles on current events and
issues
2006 – 2007 A+
Academy Charter School
Honors Instructor
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Worked closely with members of the
community, including directors, principals, colleagues, parents, and students;
collaborated to develop plans and strategies to better serve my students; implemented
plans and strategies to better serve my students; implemented plans to improve
student learning; organized, planned, and prepared for various classes; created
assessments; generated reports to track achievement gaps; developed
intervention strategies for struggling students
2000 – 2004 University
of Texas at Dallas
Professor’s
Assistant
SKILLS
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Excellent communication skills, including public
speaking and writing skills
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Scholarly research, including the creation and
revision of publications
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Word processing
FIELDS
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Composition – including developmental
writing and undergraduate English composition courses
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Literary Studies – particularly using Darwinian and
Austrian economics approaches
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Philosophy – particularly complex systems,
self-organization/spontaneous order, information theory, neurophilosophy,
ethics, evolution, time, aesthetics/beauty
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Economics – particularly Austrian economics
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Education
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Interdisciplinary Studies
BOOKS
PUBLISHED
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Diaphysics.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 2009
ARTICLES
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“Innovation, Complex Systems and
Computation: Technological Space and Speculations on the Future” (coauthored
with Euel Elliott) Studies in Emergent Order, Vol. 6 (2013): 184-206
<online>
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“The
Theater of Tensions” Studies in Emergent
Order, Vol. 5 (2012): 86-102 <online>
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“The Spontaneous Orders of the Arts” Studies in Emergent Order, Vol. 3 (2010):
195-211 <online>
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“From the Sensory Order to the Moral Order: Bridging
Hayek to Hayek (Part I)” NOMOI, Vol. 1 (2010): 3-5
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“Interdisciplinarity
versus Multidisciplinarity” Time’s
News: <online>
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Reprint – "Literature as a Game:
Game-Play in Reading, Creating, and Understanding Literature” Esophy <online>
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"Literature as a Game: Game-Play in
Reading, Creating, and Understanding Literature” Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume
7 Number 2, August 2006 <online>
BOOK CHAPTERS
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“Basic Income Guarantee and the Negative
Income Tax: A Comparative Spontaneous Orders Approach” Basic Income and the Free Market: Austrian Economics and the Potential for
Efficient Redistribution. Guinevere
Liberty Nell, ed. Palgrave Macmillan (2013)
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“Getting to the Hayekian Network” Advances
in Austrian Economics, Vol. 15, Leslie Marsh, ed.
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS (Poems and Short
Stories)
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“Dithyramb”
and “Paean to God” Harbinger Asylum, Spring 2012
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“My Night Off” Medusa Literature: <online>
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“A
World” Medusa Literature: <online>
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“Geographies
of Nostalgia” Medusa Literature: <online>
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“Mountain Lakes” Poetry Renewal <online>
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“False Memories” Sojourn
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“Iguanodon”
(Short Story) Art Times
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“The Comfortless Comfort” 13 Windows
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“Campfire” 13 Windows
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“In the Land of Butterflies” 13 Windows
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“B-52” (Short Story) product14
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“The Carpenter at Little Pawpaw Lake”
product14
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“Wishful Thinking” (Short Story) The
Gargoyle
BOOK
REVIEWS
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LisaZunshine. “Strange Concepts and the
Stories They Make Possible” Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts, Vol.
13, No. 3 December 2012
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Paul Cantor and Stephen Cox, eds.
“Literature and the Economics of Liberty” The Freeman, April 2012
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Roger Scruton “Beauty” Philosophical Practice, Vol. 4.3
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Craig Dove “Nietzsche’s Ethical Theory:
Mind, Self and Responsibility” Philosophical Practice, Vol. 4.1
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Lou Marinoff “The Middle Way” Philosophical
Practice, Vol. 3.2
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Madison Jones' “Nashville 1864: The Dying
of the Light” Bibliophilos
POPULAR
PUBLICATIONS
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“Microaggression or Neglect?” The Pope Center, Feb. 7, 2014
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“Bridging the Two Cultures” The Pope Center,
Aug. 1, 2013
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“Before Turning Students Into Writers,
Teach Them Grammar” National Academy of Scholars, June 24, 2013
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“The Beautiful City” The Freeman, April 30,
2013
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“Scientists and Engineers Need Literature”
The Pope Center, Apr. 7, 2013
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“Spiral Dynamics: An Overview” The Freeman,
Jan. 7, 2013
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“The Free-Lance Professor” The Pope Center,
Apr. 24, 2011
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“Egypt’s Revolution and Higher Education”
The Pope Center, Feb. 6, 2011
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“The Fading Hope of Interdisciplinary
Studies” The Pope Center, Jan 30, 2011
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“Freshman Composition and the Sonnet” The
Pope Center, Jan. 16, 2011
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“At Home With the Kids and My Ph.D.” The
Pope Center, Dec. 7, 2010
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“From Trivium to Triviality” The Pope
Center, Oct. 15, 2010
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“Suppose There Were Food Insurance” Mises Daily, LVMI, July 22, 2010
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“Zoning Laws Destroy Communities” Mises
Daily, LVMI, Apr. 30, 2010
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“Local Theaters Should Champion Local
Playwrights” The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 12, 2010
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“School Needs to Get Physical” The Dallas
Morning News, July 16, 2009
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“School Can’t Be All About Academics” The
Dallas Morning News, June 26, 2009
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“Schools Are Teaching Teachers Not to Teach”
The Dallas Morning News, April 17, 2009
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“The Tragic Institutions” TCSDaily:
<online>
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“Son of the UMWA, Husband of the AFT” The
Prometheus Institute
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“Why Libertarians are Annoying” The
Prometheus Institute
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“On Evil Property Owners...Like My Wife’s
Grandfather, Jesus” The Prometheus Institute
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“Rebuttal: Paul Krugman’s: Voodoo Health
Economics” The Prometheus Institute
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“If I Were a Captain Planet Supervillain” The
Prometheus Institute
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“It’s Time We Gave the Poor a Tax Break” The
Prometheus Institute
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“Once
Upon a Time There Was a Great Democracy” The Prometheus Institute
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“The
Government Makes Easy Things Complicated” The Prometheus Institute
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“The
Three Liberalisms” The Prometheus Institute
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“Government
and Power Laws” The Prometheus Institute
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A weekly opinion piece in The Messenger out
of Madisonville, KY from 1994-1995
CONFERENCES/READINGS
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“The Theater of Tensions” Fund for
Spontaneous Orders Conference, “Coping With Tensions,” Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2011
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Liberty Fund, “F. A. Hayek,” June 7-12,
2009
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“The Spontaneous Orders of the Arts” Fund for Spontaneous Orders Conference,
“Organization and Emergence: Tensions and Symbiosis,” Dec. 3-6, 2009
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“Spontaneous Order and Emergent Phenomena:
An Interdisciplinary Approach” Fund for Spontaneous Orders Conference, “Orders
and Borders,” Nov. 2008
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“Hubris: The Virtuous Vice” International
Society for the Study of Time Conference, August 2007
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“The Emergence of Everything” Dallas
Philosopher’s Forum, 2005
EDITORSHIPS
2008 – 2009 American
Philosophical Practitioners Association
Reviews Editor, Philosophical Practice
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Organized information; solicited book
contributions for review from publishing houses; worked closely with partners
to get 3-4 books reviewed by various reviewers on a strict deadline; edited
submissions and recommended revisions
PERFORMANCES
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Almost Ithacid – Play Performed at Dallas Hub Theatre for Cyberfest,
May 29-30
AWARDS
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PIA Award –
for Cyberfest performance of “Almost Ithaciad” at Dallas Hub Theatre, May 30,
2009
SCHOLARLY/LITERARY BLOGS
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Austrian Economics and Literature – http://theliteraryorder.blogspot.com
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Evolution and Literature – http://evolutionandliterature.blogspot.com
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Troy Camplin Poetry
– http://troycamplinpoetry.blogspot.com
CURRENT PROJECTS
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Essay –
“On the Varieties of Spontaneous Orders”
– Austrian
Economics Perspectives on Individualism and Society, Guinevere Nell, ed.
DISSERTATION
Evolutionary Aesthetics: The Evolution of
Complex Systems, the Appreciation of Beauty, and the Creation of Art and
Literature
Supervisors: Alexander Argyros - chair,
Frederick Turner, Robert Nelsen, Pamela Gossin
