Wednesday Hobson – Qualia Teacher: Philosophy, Advanced Language Analysis

A Qualia Deep Dive: “Do Feelings Matter?’ That’s the question one of Qualia School’s Great Ideas classes has been pondering, but over the course of this year-long philosophy course, they have been considering it through the lens of affect theory and phenomenology, subjects that their teacher, Wednesday Hobson, a Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies at […]

JC Wright – Qualia Teacher: Great Ideas, History and Band

JC Wright Qualia Faculty

Where did you grow up and go to college?  Richmond, Virginia. I earned a bachelor’s and a master’s at Virginia Tech, then did some Ph.D. work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. What did you study? Philosophy. In undergrad, I also had a jazz minor. Why philosophy?  I enrolled in college with the goal of […]