Instructor: AARON BEASLEY

AARON BEASLEY

Aaron Beasley is an associate instructor and independent scholar specializing in Literature and Critical Theory. He completed his PhD in English at the University of Utah in 2022, and he currently teaches for the Honors College and the Department of English. His dissertation examines modern literary form and the hermeneutics of mortality within several French texts between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. His ongoing research in everyday life studies pursues various intersections between theories of the sacred and the political, between philosophical and erotic imaginations, among writers as varied as Isidore Ducasse, Clarice Lispector, Georges Bataille, Colette (Laure) Peignot, Aime Cesaire, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean Genet and Simone Weil. His teaching aims to incite curiosity within, and beyond, the limits of the habitual or familiar. Taking a cue from Henri Lefebvre's claim that 'the familiar is not necessarily the known,' the goal of learning should include re-learning and reflecting upon what was presumably learned, so that our habitual life becomes habitable, as the ancient wisdom has held, habit is the human's second nature.

AARON BEASLEY is currently teaching:

Class Title	Semester	Date(s)	Program
Intermediate Writing: Academic Writing and Research	Summer, Fall	Multiple	Academic Noncredit