Educational Background

CTU / Chicago (MA)

       Major: Latin and Theology

Teaching Style:

Philosophy offers an opportunity to critically assess topics and practice constructive criticism. The goal is to gain an understanding of important questions for which there are rarely uncomplicated answers. Having lived in different countries throughout my life, I have always been fascinated with the diversity of ideas, patterns of thought, beliefs and values in this world. This experience certainly shapes an awareness of the need to examine those contexts critically and an interest to work interdisciplinary in the context of COD’s global studies program. 

An all important goal in teaching is to provide my students with a thorough foundation of knowledge that allows them to critically assess the problems and questions raised in Philosophy.  In this context, the classroom becomes a forum where teacher and students work on complex questions, beliefs, concepts, and ideas in the experimental realm as preparation for life itself. Accordingly, teaching Philosophy is an opportunity to be involved in a process of continuous learning for my students as well as the teacher.

Areas of Research Interest:

Continental Philosophy

Environmental Ethics

Philosophy of Art

Selected Publications:

• Räpple, Eva Maria. "Art of Life: Gauguin’s Language of Color and Shape" (2011). Philosophy Scholarship. Paper 27. College of DuPage Digital Commons. Web. 08/09/2011.

• Räpple, Eva Maria. “The Seductive Serpent” Religion, Culture, and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives. Eds. David Gay and Stephen R. Reimer. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2010. Print.

• Räpple, Eva Maria."Setting the Word into Motion: Textual Visuality in the Bible Moralisée, Vienna Codex 25542 (2010). Philosophy Scholarship. Paper 20. College of DuPage Digital Commons. Web. 08/09/2011.

• Räpple, Eva Maria. "'Experience Does not Err'" (Leonardo Da Vinci) - Artwork as a Mirror of Nature" (2009). Philosophy Scholarship. Paper 7. College of DuPage Digital Commons. Web. 08/09/2011.

• Räpple, Eva Maria. Rev. of  Doubting Thomas, by W. Glenn Most.
  Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology 39 (2009): 52-53.

• Räpple, Eva Maria. "Divan Japonais: Toulouse-Lautrec and Japanese Art" (2008). Philosophy Scholarship. Paper 1. College of DuPage Digital Commons. Web. 08/09/2011.

• Richter, Kent, E. Eva Maria Räpple, John C. Modschiedler, R. Dean Peterson. Understanding Religion in Global Society. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2005.

• Räpple, Eva Maria. The Metaphor of the City in the Apocalypse of John. Studies in Biblical Literature 67. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

• Räpple, Eva Maria. "The City in Revelation" Bible Today 34/6 (1996) 359-65.

• Räpple, Eva Maria. "Verschiedene Dienste - ein Herr" Bibel im Jahr (1988) 38-45.

• Several Articles in J. Hainz, A. Sand Ed. Münchner Theologishes Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament (Düsseldorf/ Germany: Patmos 1997).

Courses Taught:

• Philosophy 1100 - Introduction to Philosophy

• Philosophy 1110 - Global Ethics

• Philosophy 2250/2216 - Philosophy of Art

• Philosophy 1116 - Environmental Ethics

• Western Philosophy I 2210: Greek Philosophy – Renaissance

• Western Philosophy II 2211: Enlightenment – Present

• Religious Studies 1100 - Introduction to Religion

• Religious Studies 2160 - Judaism, Christianity, Islam

• 2007-2008 Co-director and author of the faculty seminar entitled, "Philosophical Ideas and Artistic Pursuits in the Traditions of Asia and the West" funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Workshop Grant. Project Period: May 2007 through October 2008. Under the tutelage of 16 pre-eminent scholars from the fields of philosophy, fine arts, and Asian Studies, the seminar offered 14 full- and part-time College of DuPage faculty members with the opportunity to use exemplary Western and Asian philosophical traditions as a lens through which to analyze the often lesser-known world of Asian arts and humanities. Grant products included: a new scholarship/grant program initiated for the professional development of part-time Liberal Arts faculty; the development of fourteen curriculum enhancements which have emerged from the workshop series content with selected projects published online; at least 20 conference and seminar papers which have been delivered about the workshop series and/or subjects from the series.

• 2008 "Philosophical Ideas and Artistic Pursuits in the Traditions of Asia and the Omaha West" was awarded the Exemplary Humanities Project Award the Central
  Division Conference of the Community College Humanities Association.

• 2002-2003 Director for a major grant awarded to the College of DuPage by the Illinois Humanities Council for the development of a photographic exhibit, lecture series and Web site offering resources to Middle Eastern Cultures
  Title: Place and Space: A Window to Middle Eastern Culture

• 2002-2003 Participant in a faculty seminar entitled, "Death, Grief, and Mourning as Windows on East Asian Traditions," College of DuPage, funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Focus Grant

International Tour

January 2006 and March 2010: Co-director for "Convivencia," a field exploration of the historical-cultural context in Al-Andalus, Spain, a study of architectural, artistic, literary, and cultural evidence of a society that fostered an exchange of philosophical ideas, religious worldviews, political, and economic advances during the period of the Caliphate of Cordova in 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492.