Know Your Professor: Wanda Torres Gregory
Meet Professor Wanda Torres Gregory. Professor Gregory is chair of the Philosophy Department and her passion for the Simmons vision and women's empowerment makes her a perfect fit to feature during Women's History Month! She has been the recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and has taught over fifteen different courses at Simmons.
- What is your favorite class to teach?
- I love teaching the Seminars in Philosophy, where I've taught Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein--my favorite philosophers.
- What book are you currently reading?
- Une mort tres douce (A Very Easy Death) by Simone de Beauvoir. I've read it in English, but I wanted to practice reading French literature as I prepare for my Existentialism course in which we will discuss this book.
- What's your favorite book?
- Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. I love it so much that I don't own a copy presently because I'm always giving mine away to others who have not read his stories!
- If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, dead or alive, who would it be?
- I would love to have dinner with my late Grandmother; her cooking, of course!
- What's your favorite band/artist?
- Lucecita BenÃtez - a Puerto Rican singer with a powerful voice that gives me goosebumps.
- Fill in the blank: When I was in college, I ______
- was most definitely a NERD!
- What's your favorite website or social network?
- I love to browse the books on amazon.com and post pictures of my garden on Facebook.
- What's your favorite restaurant in Boston?
- Brasserie Jo at the Colonnade Hotel
- If you could travel to anywhere in the world right now, where would you go and why?
- I would visit Amsterdam because for some reason or other, I have not been able to visit the Van Gogh Museum, yet.
- When I'm not teaching, I'm ______
- Either working on my next book (The Development of Martin Heidegger's Concept of Language) or thinking about it.
- Do you have a hidden talent?
- My hidden talent is gardening--a "budding" talent that was "hidden" even to myself until a few years ago.
- Favorite quote?
- "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." --Nietzsche
- What song is your personal anthem?
- "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, a disco hit that I still sing to myself (and even dance to!) whenever I feel afraid or have self-doubt in the face of an adversity.
- Fill in the blank: I love Simmons because _____
- I get to help empower younger women by teaching them what I love: philosophy!
- Describe Simmons in one word:
- Woman-empowering!
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