Charles R. Embry

Charles R. Embry is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Texas A&M University–Commerce, where he joined in 1969. He has published "The Philosopher and the Storyteller: Eric Voegelin and Twentieth-Century Literature" with the University of Missouri Press. Embry previously edited "Robert B. Heilman and Eric Voegelin: A Friendship in Letters, 1944–1984" and co-edited "Philosophy, Literature, and Politics: Essays Honoring Ellis Sandoz." He studied under Ellis Sandoz at Louisiana Tech University and John Hallowell at Duke University. Embry is an active member of the Eric Voegelin Society, presenting at many annual meetings. In 2005, he chaired a panel at the Eric Voegelin Society Conference in Washington, D.C., titled "The Evocation of Experience: Poetry and Eric Voegelin's Theory of Symbolization." In 2004, he presented "The Literary Criticism of Eric Voegelin in his Correspondence with Robert B. Heilman" at the 20th Annual Eric Voegelin Society conference in Chicago, Illinois. In 2003, he presented "Show me something snaky" at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia.