Wendy A. Wiseman
Tufekçi Salih Sok. No. 7, Apt. 4
Cihangir, Beyoğlu
Istanbul, Turkey
(09) 538 899 4036
wendy.wiseman@ozyegin.edu.tr
Education
University of California Santa Barbara. Phd in Religious Studies, June, 2010, specializing in
Philosophy of Religion. Master of Arts in Religious Studies, June 1999.
Middlebury College. Summer Intensive German Language Program, 2003.
Seattle University, Seattle, WA. EFL and ESL Certification. Teaching English as a Second Language
Certification Program, 1994.
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Bachelor of Arts in Comparative History of Ideas, December
1993.
American University of Avignon, France, in cooperation with University of Washington, January-June,
1991.
Areas of Specialization
Doctoral Exams:
 Modern Continental Thought with Dr. Thomas A. Carlson, Advisor and Committee Chair,
Religious Studies, UCSB.
 Medieval Christian Mysticism and Scholasticism with Dr. Thomas A. Carlson.
 Platonism and Christian Neo-Platonism with Dr. Christine Thomas, Religious Studies, UCSB.
 Cultural History of Religions with Dr. Richard Hecht, Religious Studies, UCSB.
Dissertation Title: “Nietzsche Wept: The Morality of Pity, Ambivalence, and the Gods.”
Dissertation committee: Dr. Thomas A. Carlson, Dr. Christine Thomas, Dr. Elisabeth Weber,
Chair, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies and Comparative Literature, UCSB.
Teaching Experience
Visiting Assistant Professor, August 2013-present, Indiana University, Department of Religious Studies.
Introduction to Religion; Religion, Existentialism, and the “Animal”
Assistant Professor, June 2010-present, Ozyegin University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Introduction to Philosophy; Globalization, Democracy, and Social Justice; Political Ideologies;
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Abrahamic Traditions; History of Art; History of Ideas I:
The Rise of Modernity and History of Ideas II: Critique of Modernity.
Instructor, September 2008-May 2010, Ozyegin University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. History of
Ideas I: The Rise of Modernity and History of Ideas II: Critique of Modernity.
Affiliate Instructor, Spring 2008, University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas Program,
Existentialism and Religion and The Question of Human Nature.
Winter 2008, On Beauty in Western Philosophical and Literary Traditions and Interpretation of
Texts and Cultures (core major’s colloquium; intensive theory course on representations of the
“other” in colonial, post-colonial, and neo-colonial discourses).
Autumn 2007, The Question of Human Nature and Religion, Nihilism, and the Question of Morality:
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky.
Summer 2007, University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas Program. The Question of
Human Nature.
Study Abroad Program Director and Instructor, Auckland, New Zealand, Spring, 2007, University of
Washington, Comparative History of Ideas Program.
Program title: Crossed Identities and the Genealogy of Memory in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Responsible for program development, administration, travel, budget, and instruction of two
courses (Interpretation of Texts and Cultures and Indigeneity, Local and Global) for twenty
University of Washington students.
Affiliate Instructor, Winter 2007, University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas Program.
Medieval Love Mysticism and Interpretation of Texts and Cultures.
Autumn, 2006: Existentialism and Religion and Interpretation of Texts and Cultures Spring 2006,
University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas Program. Modernism and
Postmodernism via Nietzsche.
Winter 2006, University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas Program. Interpretation of
Texts and Cultures.
Adjunct Instructor, Autumn 2005, Cornish College of the Arts. History of World Religions
Affiliate Instructor, Spring 2005, University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas Program.
Nihilism, Christianity, and the Question of Morality: Nietzsche and Dostoevsky.
Study Abroad Program Director and Instructor, Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, Winter
2005, University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas. Interpretation of Texts and
Cultures and Maori Religious Traditions and the Contemporary Cultural Renaissance.
Affiliate Instructor, Spring 2004, University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas Program.
Shadowing Nietzsche.
Instructor, University of California Santa Barbara, Religious Studies.
Spring 2003, Religion in Western Civilization: Modern (survey course examining key Western texts
and institutions; 400 students, eight Teaching Assistants).
Summer 2001, Religion in Western Civilization: Ancient.
Teaching Assistant, University of California Santa Barbara. 1997-2003.
Black Studies 2001-2003.
Film Studies, Winter 2001.
Women’s Studies, Fall 2000..
Religious Studies, 1997-2000.
English Teacher, Štredni Průmyslova Školá (public engineering high school), Liberec, Czech Republic.
1995-1996. Twenty five classes per week, 400 students.
Conference Papers and Presentations
. “What Was and What Will Be: Denial as a Form of Violence.” To be delivered at 11th Global
Conference on Violence, “Probing the Boundaries,” Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Prague, Czech
Republic, May 2013.
“In the Image of God: Byzantine Christology and the Veneration of Icons.” Presented to Global College
Comparative Religion and Culture Program, Long Island University, Istanbul, Turkey, April
2013.
“The First Four Centuries of Christianity: From Apocalyptic Judaism to Imperial Triumph.” Presented to
Global College Comparative Religion and Culture Program, Long Island University, Cappadocia,
Turkey, April 2013.
“Apocalyptic Futures and Messianic Hopes: The Order of Time in Ages of Anxiety.” Delivered at
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, February 2012.
“Nothing is Without Reason: Climate Change and the Global Future as Saturated Phenomena.” Delivered
at the 61st Annual Congress of Phenomenology: Phenomenology and the Human Positioning in
the Cosmos—The Life-World, Nature, Earth, Istanbul Kultur University, June 2011.
“Veiled Apocalypse: Nostalgia for Meaning and the Disavowal of the Future.” Delivered at the 13th
Annual Cultural Studies Conference, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, May 2011.
“Nietzsche’s Labyrinth: The Absence of God and Divinity in the Flesh.” Delivered at the American
Academy of Religion National Conference, Theology and Religion Reflection Section, The God
Question, Atlanta, 2010
“The ‘Enemy’ Within?: Turkey, The Armenian Question, and the Idea of Europe.” Delivered at American
Academy of Religion National Conference, Religion and Europe Group, The Idea of Europe,
Montreal, 2009.
“In the Beginning: Kristeva, Cixous, and the Abject Mother of Metaphysics.” Delivered at American
Academy of Religion National Conference, Philosophy of Religion Section, Feminism and the
Philosophy of Religion, Philadelphia, 2005.
“Rending the Veil: The Kantian Sublime and Nietzsche’s Dionysus.” Delivered at American Academy of
Religion National Conference, Philosophy of Religion Section, Kant’s Contribution to the
Philosophy of Religion, San Antonio, 2004.
“Tragic Masks: Nietzsche and the Specular Drama of Redemption.” Delivered at American Academy of
Religion Western Regional Conference, Religion and Literature, Santa Cruz, 2003.
“The ‘Perverted Imp’: Plotinus and the Metaphysics of Shame.” Delivered at American Academy of
Religion National Conference, Platonism and Neoplatonism Section, Neoplatonism and the Body,
Toronto, 2002.
“Freedom and the Cosmos in the Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky.” Delivered at American Academy of
Religion National Conference, Eastern Orthodoxy Group, Dostoevsky and Eastern Orthodoxy,
Denver, 2001.
“The Rape of the Sacral Body of Russia in Dostoevsky's The Demons.” Delivered at American Academy
of Religion Western Regional Conference, Religion and Literature, Azuza University, 2000.
“Dionysus vs. the Crucified: Nietzsche's Double Will and the Collapse of the Dialectic.” Delivered at
American Academy of Religion National Conference, Roundtable presentation, Boston, 1999.
Publications
“What Was and What Will Be: Denial as a Form of Violence.” Article, to be published in Violence:
Probing the Boundaries, Rodopi Press, January, 2014.
“The Politics of Teaching of Indigenous Traditions in Aotearoa/New Zealand.” Article, to be published in
Journal for Teaching Theology and Religion, January 2014.
“Nothing is Without Reason: Climate Change and the Global Future as Saturated Phenomena.” Article,
published in Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, Vol. CXIV,
2013.
“The Sublime Subject in Kant’s Metaphysic and Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology.” Article, published
in Epoché, Winter 2006.
“The Sophian Element in the Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky.” Article, published in St. Vladimir’s
Theological Quarterly, Spring 2005.
“The Trinity,” “The Crucifix,” “Blood.” Online encyclopedia articles, Wadsworth Publishing,
www.wadsworth.com
Fellowships and Honors
Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program participant, California State Universities, 2004-2007.
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara,
2003-2004 (merit award with stipend).
Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara, 2003-2004 (merit
award with stipend).
UCSB Affiliates Dissertation Fellowship, 2003 (merit award with stipend).
Graduate Division Fee Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara,
1997-2004 (merit and need-based tuition waiver).
Outstanding Faculty Award, Office of Residential Life, University of California Santa Barbara 19992000.
Rowny Fellowship, Department of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, 1996-2001
(full tuition coverage, full-time teaching assistantship, with research duties for Dr. Roger
Friedland on biological metaphors of cosmic generation in classical philosophy and early
Christianity, and on the “masculinization” of the national body in the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Little
Green Book).
Professional Affiliations and Positions
Panel Chair, 11th Global Conference on Violence, “Probing the Boundaries,” Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Prague, Czech Republic, May 2013.
Panel Chair, 13th Annual Cultural Studies Conference, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, May 2011.
Panel Chair, Teaching Religion Abroad, Teaching Religion Section, American Academy of Religion
National Conference, San Francisco, November 2011.
Organizer and Fundraiser, lecture by Bert Sacks: ”Between Two Wars: Iraq’s Children, US Sanctions,
and the Question of Justice,” University of Washington, March 1, 2007.
Moderator, Liberalism, Pluralism, and Social Ontology. Philosophy of Religion Section. American
Academy of Religion National Conference, Philadelphia, 2005.
Moderator, Seminar on Negative Theology and Modern Literature. Cultural Turn Conference, University
of California Santa Barbara, March, 2001.
Panelist, Teacher’s Assistant Training Workshop in Religious Studies, University of California Santa
Barbara, 1999 and 2002.
Graduate Student Liaison to the American Academy of Religion, 2000-2002.
Member, American Academy of Religion, 1997-present.
Member, The Nietzsche Society, 2005-present.
Member, International Society of Phenomenology and Literature, 2010-present.
Member, Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, 2010-present.
Member, International Association of Genocide Scholars, 2013.
Participant, Climate Reality Leadership Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, June, 2013.