DEREK MICHAUD. Curriculum vitae EDUCATION

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1 PO Box 486 Fairfield, Maine USA DEREK MICHAUD Curriculum vitae EDUCATION 2015 Ph.D., Theology Boston University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Reason turned into Sense: John Smith on Spiritual Sensation, Ray Hart, Garth W. Green (McGill University), Douglas Hedley (Cambridge University), and Boyd T. Coolman (Boston College) 2003 STM, Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics Boston University School of Theology 2001 MA, Theology Bangor Theological Seminary The Centrality of the Doctrine of Creation in the Theological Anthropology of Paul Tillich and Paramahansa Yogananda, Oscar E. Remick 1999 BA, Psychology University of Maine TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2015-present 2012-present Instructor, Philosophy, University of Maine Contemporary Moral Problems Introduction to Philosophy Methods of Reasoning Introduction to Religious Studies Ethics Instructor, Philosophy, University of Southern Maine Introduction to Philosophy: World Philosophy Introduction to Philosophy: Why do Philosophy? Philosophy of Religion Humanity s Spiritual Heritage (World Religions Survey) Eastern Philosophy (Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism) History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Instructor, Philosophy, Middlesex Community College 1

2 Ethics & Society Introduction to Philosophy Teaching Assistant, Boston University School of Theology Theology I: History of Christian Theology Theology II: Christian Doctrine The Confucian Way Theologies of Dialogue (Interreligious Dialogue and Comparative Theology) 2002 Instructor, Thomas College 20th Century Humanities Teaching Assistant, Bangor Theological Seminary The Theology of Paul Tillich Theology in World Perspective Book Forthcoming PUBLICATIONS Reason Turned into Sense : John Smith on Spiritual Sensation, Studies in Philosophical Theology, Leuven: Peeters. Articles & Chapters Under contract Submitted Submitted John Smith among the Cambridge Platonists, in Plotinus Legacy: Studies in the Transformation of Platonism from Early Modernism to the Romantics, Stephen Gersh, ed. Cambridge University Press. Varieties of Spiritual Sense: Cusanus and John Smith, in Nicholas of Cusa in Early Modern Reform, Joshua Hollmann, Eric Parker and Simon Burton, eds. Brill. The Legacy of a Living Library : The Transatlantic Reception of John Smith, in Revisioning Cambridge Platonism, Douglas Hedley, Sarah Hutton, and David Leech, eds. The International Archives of the History of Ideas. Springer The Patristic Roots of John Smith s True Way or Method of Attaining to Divine Knowledge, in Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body: Mystical Sensuality, , Thomas Cattoi and June McDaniel, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, "Toward an Adequate Model for the Theology of Religions," Engaging Particularities, Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College escholarship Health as a Metaphor for the Created Condition, Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society 31(2) (Spring 2005):

3 2003 Reflections on Ecology, Theology and Ethics, Quodlibet Journal 5(4) October Reviews 2015 "Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza, Carlos Fraenkel, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Reviews In Religion & Theology 22.3 (July 2015): DOI: /rirt Personal Identity: How do we Survive Our Death? [Georg Gasser, ed., (Ashgate, 2010)] The Heythrop Journal, 54, Issue 2 (March, 2013): DOI: /j _1009.x 2011 Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, [Diarmaid MacCulloch, (Viking, 2010)] Symposia, 3 (June 2011) A Theology of Engagement, [Ian Markham, (Blackwell, 2003)] The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 6(1) (2004): Chaos and Tehomophobia, [Catherine Keller s The Face of the Deep (Routledge, 2002)] The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 4(3) (August 2003): Other 2014-present 2013-present 2010-present Editor, Cambridge Platonism, PhilPapers.org, Contributor, Cambridge Platonist Research Group, Editor, Cambridge Platonism, Assistant Editor, Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology, Contributing Editor, Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion, continued as Science on Religion, CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION 2016 John Smith on The Great Principles of Religion : The Natural Theology of a Cambridge Platonist, Maine Philosophical Institute 71 st Annual Meeting, University of Maine, 30 April

4 2013 John Smith's Lasting Influence: The Transatlantic Reception of a 'Living Library', invited paper, Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Workshop 3: Reception and Influence, Clare College, Cambridge University, 1 June St. Bonaventure on Divine Unity and the Inner Life of the One, at the Christian Platonism session of the Platonism and Neoplatonism Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, November, "The Cambridge Platonist John Smith's debt to Origen for an Early Modern Doctrine of the Spiritual Senses," invited paper, Boston Colloquy of Historical Theology, Boston College, 30 July Respondent: Mark McInroy (Harvard Divinity School) Sacrifice, Bodies, and the Image of God, response paper on the panel, Sacrifice, Bodies, and the Image of God: An Interdisciplinary Conversation about the Roles and Relevance of Christian Theologies in Changing Times, with Marla Marcum and Sean Delmore of Boston University School of Theology, at Bodies in Motion: Graduate Student Conference, University of Rhode Island, 28 March The Patristic Roots of John Smith s True Way or Method of Attaining to Divine Knowledge, at the Eastern Orthodoxy and the Spiritual Senses, joint session of the Mysticism and Eastern Orthodox Studies Groups, the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, 3 November In Search of a Theology of Religions, Engaging Particularities Conference, Boston College, March Health as a Metaphor for the Created Condition, at the annual meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Society in San Antonio Texas, 19 November CAMPUS TALKS 2013 Toward an Adequate Response to Religious Pluralism, University of Southern Maine Philosophy Lecture Series, 27 February Martin Luther: Faith and Reason in the Early Modern World, guest lecture, Boston University School of Theology, TT 704 Theology I: History of Christian Theology, 23 March The Community Beyond Unity (College), invited lecture in the Flying Fish series at Unity College on the socioeconomic situation of the greater Unity area, Unity, Maine, 30 November The Centrality of the Doctrine of Creation in the Theological Anthropology of Paul Tillich and Paramahansa Yogananda, Bangor Theological Seminary, April

5 AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS Doctoral Fellow, Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion Travel Grant ($2,500) from Boston University School of Theology for research at Cambridge University & 2009 Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship ($8,000) from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Humanities Foundation, Boston University, for research at Cambridge University John F. Richardson Fellowship from Boston University School of Theology Promising Scholar of 2004 whose work merits the support of the wider church, The Education Committee of the Episcopal Church Foundation, February Frank D. and Bertha Howard Fellowship from Boston University School of Theology, & academic years Graduated With Honors and received the Seminary Prize for Highest Overall Academic Achievement ( Summa Cum Laude ) from Bangor Theological Seminary, May LANGUAGES Native/Fluent Research English French, German, Greek, Latin MEMBERSHIPS 2000-present 2012-present 2012-present 2015-present 2010-present 2011-present 2011-present American Academy of Religion American Philosophical Association Centre for Research on Religion, McGill University Council for Research in Values and Philosophy International Society for Neoplatonic Studies Metaphysical Society of America Renaissance Society of America 5

6 REFERENCES Garth W. Green Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology McGill University, Faculty of Religious Studies Birks Building 009, 3520 rue University Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A7, Canada Jessica P. Miller Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Interdisciplinary Programs, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy University of Maine, Department of Philosophy The Maples, Orono, Maine, 04469, United States of America Douglas Hedley Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics Cambridge University, Faculty of Divinity West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9BS, United Kingdom Ray L. Hart Professor of Philosophical and Systematic Theology, Emeritus Boston University, Department of Religion 147 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, United States of America