Joe M. Balay
Center for Sustainability in Education - Department of Philosophy and Religion
Associate Professor
McMurran Hall 259F
(757) 594-7171
joe.balay@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University
- BA in Philosophy, Seattle University
- MA in English, California State University, Northridge
- BA in English, Pepperdine University
Teaching
Phil 317: Existentialism; PHIL 386: Values and Postmodernity; PHIL 203: 19th/20th Century Western Philosophy; PHIL 376: Environmental Ethics; PHIL 207: Ethical Issues in Business; Phil 312: American Philosophy; PHIL 451: Great Philosophers (Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche, Sartre)
Research
19th/20th Century Continental Philosophy (Existentialism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Post-Modernism); Environmental Philosophy; Philosophy of Art, Film, and Literature; Applied Ethics.
Recent Books: The Environmental Gaze: Reading Sartre through Guido van Helten's No Exit Murals (Lexington, 2023).
Biography
Dr. Balay joined the faculty of Christopher Newport University in 2015. His research interests concern the interdisciplinary intersections of Continental Philosophy (esp. Heidegger, Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Nietzsche, and Derrida), Aesthetics, and Environmental Philosophy. He co-leads the CNU Summer Study Abroad Program: Environmental Encounters in Iceland, and he is the coordinator of the campus Philosophy and Film series. Outside of class, he enjoys hiking and birdwatching.