Speaker Profile
鈥淲e absolutely loved having Zena on campus and we are so incredibly grateful for the discussions she had with our community and students. Our students loved getting to meet her and ask questions, especially after having read her book and incorporating many aspects of it into their learning. It was such a special treat for our community.鈥濃�擠onnelly College
鈥淲e enjoyed having Zena here immensely, and I have all good things to say about her visit. The students were truly inspired and had a lot of questions for her, and we all found the talk very interesting.鈥濃�擲t Olaf College
Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John鈥檚 College and the author of Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Her book explores the meaning and the value of learning for its own sake, through images and stories of bookworms, philosophers, scientists, and other learners, both fictional and historical. She and speaks on the human need to learn for its own sake and what it means for educational institutions to take that need seriously.
She studied at St. John鈥檚 College, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago and 91桃色 before teaching philosophy at McGill University, Auburn University, and UMBC. She spent three years living and working in the and has taught in prison programs and to other non-traditional students. When she is not teaching or speaking she spends time thinking about topics like the moral decline and fall of individuals and communities, as depicted in stories from Genesis to The Godfather.
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