Doctoral Candidate Lucy Schultz has accepted a tenure-track position in philosophy at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Midwestern State University is a public liberal arts university that enrolls approximately 6000 students and is one of 27 institutions that comprise the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC). Schultz is currently finishing her dissertation, Creative Climate: East-West Perspectives on Art, Nature, and the Expressive Body, which defends the need for a renewed conception of nature as seen through the lens of an artist engaged in artistic creation. By exploring the embodied foundations of the relationship between artists and their media as recounted by Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Nishida, and Watsuji, she offers a way of thinking about artistic expression that recognizes the active, expressive character of artistic media and, more broadly, nature itself. Her work has appeared in journals such as Philosophy East and West and Environmental Philosophy.

See related article in 2014 Summer Report from the Oregon Humanities Center:
http://ohc.uoregon.edu/SR_2014-Schultz.html