Becky Vartabedian

Dr. Becky Vartabedian teaches courses in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy and art, and philosophy’s intersections with race, gender, and sexuality. She is affiliated faculty in the Peace and Justice Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies programs and contributes to Regis College’s Integrative Core. Before returning to Regis in 2012 - Dr. Vartabedian is a 2001 graduate of Regis - she taught philosophy at the Community College of Aurora, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where she earned her Ph.D.

Dr. Vartabedian’s scholarly work brings resources of interdisciplinarity to her specializations in contemporary Continental philosophy and critical phenomenology, drawing on fields of philosophy, history, film studies, politics and political theory, aesthetics, art-making, religion, and mathematics. Her academic work has been published in Open Philosophy, in Philosophy for the Contemporary World, Evental Aesthetics, the American Philosophical Association Newsletter for Teaching Philosophy, and in other edited volumes in press or in the world. Her first book, Multiplicity and Ontology in Deleuze and Badiou, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2018. She has also contributed poetry and creative non-fiction to anthologies published by Arts, Letters and Numbers (Averill Park, NY). She is also a regular participant in activities sponsored by the Denver Project for Humanistic Inquiry (D-phi).