Jonathan Cheek
Professor of Psychology
Professor of Personality Psychology. Research interests include shyness, self-concept, and identity orientations.
Education
- B.A., George Washington University
- M.A., University of Texas (Austin)
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Current and upcoming courses
Seminar: Narrative Identity
PSYC339
Narrative psychology explores the human propensity to create and use stories about significant figures and events in the process of identity formation. Topics will include an exploration of mermaids and related figures as cultural images, metaphors for personal transformation, and archetypal symbols of the collective unconscious. The Little Mermaid and La Sirene of Haitian Vodou will be examined as representations of men's fear of, and attempts to control, women's spirituality and sexuality. The personality theories of Jung and Reich provide the framework for the seminar.