Biography

Dr. Keith Dromm is a Professor of Philosophy in the Louisiana Scholars' College at Northwestern State University. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. from The Evergreen State College. 

He was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award for the Louisiana Scholars' College in 2019. He was awarded the Mildred Hart Bailey Research Award from Northwestern State University in 2008. 

He teaches a variety of courses, including Introduction to Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Film, and courses in the Scholars' core curriculum. He has also created some unique courses for NSU, including Post-World War II American Avant-garde and Proust, Autobiography, and the Philosophy of Self. 

He has written the books Wittgenstein on Rules and Nature (2008) and Sexual Harassment: An Introduction to the Conceptual and Ethical Issues (2012). He co-edited, with his wife Heather Salter, the anthology The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy (2012). He has contributed chapters to several anthologies, such as The Philosophy of Documentary Film (2017), Jane Austen and Philosophy (2016) (co-written with Heather Salter), and Inception and Philosophy (2011). He has also written articles for various academic journals and presented his research at conferences throughout the United States and Europe.

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