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Name
Zena Hitz
Title
Tutor, St. John's College
Bio
Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John’s College. Her book Lost In Thought (Princeton University Press) 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 also give lectures at colleges for the Thomistic Institute, recently on the theme of leisure and its necessity for human beings.
After graduating from St. John’s College herself, Zena Hitz studied classics and philosophy at Cambridge and the University of Chicago before finishing up her PhD at Princeton. After finishing her degree she taught philosophy, briefly at McGill University, then at Auburn University and finally for some years at UMBC. She spent three years living and working in the Madonna House Apostolate before coming back to teach at St. John’s in 2015. She has also taught in prison programs and has a general interest in bringing humanist studies to non-traditional students.
After graduating from St. John’s College herself, Zena Hitz studied classics and philosophy at Cambridge and the University of Chicago before finishing up her PhD at Princeton. After finishing her degree she taught philosophy, briefly at McGill University, then at Auburn University and finally for some years at UMBC. She spent three years living and working in the Madonna House Apostolate before coming back to teach at St. John’s in 2015. She has also taught in prison programs and has a general interest in bringing humanist studies to non-traditional students.
