| Philosophy), and has taught our capstone seminars, Integrative Studies 5 and 6. He is also the humanities curriculum developer for the Teaching Fellows Program, a graduate program for teachers currently under development. Fernandez received Mellon postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University from 1984 to 1986, and at the University of Chicago from 1990 to 1993 where he taught in the humanities core. He was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the College of William and Mary from 1986 to 1990.
“At Shimer detachment from either the class discussions or the life of the community is difficult. I think this makes Shimer College an intellectually and psychologically demanding school, a tough school, a great school.”—Albert Fernandez
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1982
M. Phil., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1974
M.A., English and Comparative Literature (High Honors), Columbia University, 1971
RECENT ELECTIVES AND TUTORIALS TAUGHT
Looking Back on the Twentieth Century
Contemporary Critical Theory
History and Philosophy of Education
The Culture Wars and Beyond: Issues in Contemporary Liberal Education
PUBLICATIONS AND COLLOQUIA
"The Almighty Facts" The Common Review, The Magazine of the Great Books Foundation, Winter 2007
For a more extensive critique of Hirsch’s "The Knowledge Deficit," please click here.
“Don Quijote Turns 400” Great Books Foundation, Chicago April 22, 2005.
“Cultural Literacy and Discussion-Centered Pedagogy: A Critique of E. D. Hirsch’s The Schools We Need” Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, November 7, 2003.
“Deconstruction: A Primer” Shimer College Public Lecture Series, May 10, 2002.
“The Hutchins College Is Alive and Well in Waukegan” University of Chicago Alumni Reunion, June 3, 2000.
“Etched in Stone? The Great Books and the Theories of Greatness.” Centennial Symposium On the Fate of Liberal Education. University of Chicago, 10 Feb. 1992.
Panel on the state of the humanities core curriculum. University of Chicago Alumni Association. University of Chicago, 11 June 1992.
“The Dead Author’ and the Revived Artist: Ortega’s Search for Velazquez.” Language and Thought Workshop Public Lecture. University of Chicago, 22 May 1991.
“Productivity Fetishism: The Tenure System and Undergraduate Teaching.” The Flat Hat 31 Aug. 1990:3.
“The Two Nauseas: Unveiling Existence and Covering Up Freedom.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, 22-24 Feb. 1990.
“José Ortega y Gasset.” in European Writers:The Twentieth Century Ed. George Stade. Vol. 9. New York: Scribners, 1989. 1119-50.
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