Andrew Slade

• B.A., French and English, Seattle University
• B.Phil and First Licentiate, Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• M.S., Clinical Mental Health Counseling, University of Dayton
• Ph.D., Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook

Andrew Slade is a professor of English and an academic leader with extensive experience in departmental, graduate, international, and faculty-development leadership. He has served for nine years as chair of the English department and was graduate director for four years prior to that. He has also led the University of Dayton's undergraduate international student pathway program.

Andy’s academic leadership is particularly focused on faculty formation, deepening academic community, and institutional mission. He is chair of the board of Collegium, a national faculty-development program serving Catholic colleges and universities, where he has contributed to the formation of faculty as teachers, scholars, mentors, and members of intellectual communities.

Earlier in his career, he developed and led faculty formation initiatives supporting teaching, scholarship, professional mentoring, and graduate education.

His interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching are grounded in a longstanding interest in the question, What is a human person? Increasingly, this work has developed in conversation with psychoanalysis and questions of human formation and experience. He is a licensed counselor and is completing advanced psychoanalytic training with adults, children, and adolescents while maintaining clinical work with children and adults. His current scholarly project explores how psychoanalytic thinking illuminates the experiences that literature and film make possible for readers and viewers.

Across his academic leadership, interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching, faculty formation, and inter-professional practice, Andy integrates his intellectual ambition, institutional experience, and a sustained commitment to the formation of persons and academic communities. His work is especially concerned with the relationship among liberal education, professional formation, human flourishing, and the mission of Catholic higher education.

"Since I began teaching here in 2001, I have found UD to be a congenial place for teaching and research. My colleagues are very supportive of my teaching, interested in my research, and more than willing to share their expertise. Students are bright, excited by learning, and willing to take intelligent risks that deepen the questions that press upon them."

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UD 2003-07
• Assistant Professor of English, 2007-12
• Associate Professor of English, 2012-22
• Professor, 2022-present
• Director of Graduate Studies, 2009-14
• Department Chair, 2014-23

• Psychoanalysis and literature and film
• Theories of masculinity and gender
• Aesthetics and the philosophy of the sublime

• Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
• Literary Theory
• Literature and the Holocaust
• Marx, Freud and Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion (in the Department of Religious Studies), History and Philosophy of Tragedy
• Gender and Film

"Differend, Sexual Difference, and the Sublime: Lyotard, Irigary, Duras," Gender After Lyotard. Margret Grebowicz, ed. SUNY Publishing. 2004.

"Hiroshima, mon amour, Trauma, and the Sublime," Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations. Ban Wang and E. Ann Kaplan, eds. (Hong Kong UP) 2004. 165-182.

"La tragedie, la scene, et l'image: Lecture d'Othello," Scene et Image. La Licorne, Hors serie colloques XI. Dominique Moncond'huy and Francois Noudelmann, eds. (Poiters UP) 2000. 61-74.