Denis Dutton
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Denis Dutton is a libertarian academic philosopher at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He founded and edits the website Arts & Letters Daily and the journal Philosophy and Literature.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Teaching positions
Dutton is a native of Los Angeles, California, where his family owns an eponymous chain of bookstores. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dutton taught philosophy at the University of Michigan-Dearborn for eleven years before moving to New Zealand to take up a post at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch in 1984.
[edit] Bad Writing Contest
In 1995, Dutton, as the founding editor of Philosophy and Literature, created a "Bad Writing Contest" to expose what he deemed to be the wilfully obscurantist prose styles of many literary and cultural theorists. The contest highlighted the prose of figures such as Homi K. Bhabha and Fredric Jameson and Judith Butler. The Bad Writing Contest ceased in 1998.
[edit] Radio work
Dutton has also worked in radio through much of his career and served for seven years (1995 - 2002) as Director of Radio New Zealand.
