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Faculty
Descriptions
Peg Birmingham, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Chair of the Department
Peg was educated at Duquesne
University. She
teaches and conducts research in the areas of political thought, ethics,
and feminist theory. In 1990 she directed the Collegium Phaenomenologicum
in Perugia, Italy on the topic:
"Ethics and Politics: The Question of Unity/Difference." She is
particularly interested in modern and contemporary political theory,
emphasizing the texts of Hobbes, Rousseau, Arendt, and Foucault. She is
also interested in exploring the issues of pleasure and embodiment and how
these issues are at work in ethical and political theories. At present she
is working on a book on Hannah Arendt, The Predicament of Common
Responsibility. (BACK)
Tina Chanter, Ph.D., Professor
Tina Chanter was educated at The State University of New York at Stony
Brook. She is author of Ethics of Eros: Irigaray's Rewriting of the
Philosophers (New York: Routledge, 1995) and Time, Death and the
Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger (Stanford University Press, 2001). She
is also editor of Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas
(Rereading the Canon series, Pennsylvania State Press, 2001), and of the
Gender Theory series for the State University of New York Press. Currently
she is writing on abjection and film. She has written articles on feminist
theory and continental philosophy, and has been invited to publish in such
journals as Differences, Signs, The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal,
and Research in Phenomenology, on topics including Sophocles’ Antigone,
film theory, and figures such as Beauvoir, Derrida, Heidegger, Hegel,
Irigaray, Kofman, Kristeva, Lacan, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty. (BACK)
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Emmanuel was educated at Fordham University in addition to universities in Nigeria and Zaire. He specializes in
African Philosophical Thought, Social and Political Theory, Postcolonial
Thought, Theories of Race and Racism, and Philosophy and Human Rights. He
edited Race and the Enlightenment:
A Reader (Blackwell 1997), Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader
(Blackwell 1998), and authored Achieving
our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future (Routledge,
2001). His recent articles have appeared in these journals: South Atlantic
Quarterly, Journal of the History of Ideas, Telos, Soundings, Philosophical
Papers, and Philosophia Africana. (BACK)
Avery Goldman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Programs
Avery was educated at the Pennsylvania
State University.
A more detailed biography will follow soon. (BACK)
Namita Goswami, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Namita was educated at Emory
University. She is
interested in Postcolonial Theory and Literatures, Transnational and
Multicultural Feminism, Nationalisms and Sexualities, 19th- and 20th
-century Continental Philosophy, History of Feminist Thought, Global
Feminisms, Asian and Diaspora Studies, and Feminist Philosophy. She is
currently working on her manuscript, Who
was Roop Kanwar?: The Subject in Question in Contemporary Feminist Theory.
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Jason Hill, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Jason was educated at Purdue
University. His areas
of specialization are ethics, social and political philosophy, and race
theory. He is the author of Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What it Means to be
a Human Being in the New Millennium (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
He was a 1999-2000 Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University.
He is also the author of two unpublished novels and is writing a book on
the subjects of cosmopolitan justice, sexuality, human rights, and
education. (BACK)
Sean Kirkland,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Sean was educated at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. A
more detailed biography will follow soon. (BACK)
David
Farrell Krell, Ph.D., Professor
David was educated at Duquesne
University. He has
taught at universities in Germany,
France, and England.
He works in the areas of early Greek thought, Plato, German Idealism,
Romanticism, and Contemporary European literature and thought. His books
include The Tragic Absolute: German
Idealism and the Languishing of God (Indiana, 2005); The Purest of
Bastards: Works on Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques
Derrida (Pennsylvania, 2000); Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and
Death in German Idealism and Romanticism (Indiana, 1998); The Good
European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image, w/Donald Bates
(Chicago, 1997); Archeticture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human
Body (SUNY, 1997); Infectious Nietzsche (Indiana, 1996); Lunar
Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought (Chicago, 1995); Daimon
Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy (Indiana, 1992); Of Memory,
Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge (Indiana, 1990); Intimations
of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being
(Pennsylvania, 1986; 2nd ed., 1991); and Postponements: Woman,
Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche (Indiana 1986). (BACK)
Mary Jeanne Larrabee, Ph.D., Professor
Mary Jeanne was educated at The University of Toronto. She served as
Director of the Women's Studies Program in the mid-eighties. She edited An
Ethic of Care, has published articles in phenomenology, Husserl
studies, and feminism, and is currently researching theories of experience
and the self within multiply cultural contexts. She has taught courses in
feminist ethics, epistemology, and peace studies; Husserl's time theory, Ideas,
Crisis, and genetic phenomenology; theories of subjectivity;
postmodernism; logic; and Asian philosophies (Hinduism and Buddhism). (BACK)
Richard A. Lee, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Placement & Recruitment Director
Rick
was educated at New School University
and Jagiellonian University (Cracow,
Poland). He
teaches and works in the areas of Medieval and early modern philosophy, the
Frankfurt School, and social and political
philosophy. His recent published work includes Science, the Singular,
and the Question of Theology (Palgrave-St. Martin's, 2002) as well as
essays in journals such as Telos, Hobbes Studies, Vivarium, and The
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. He is currently working on a book
manuscript titled The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force,
dealing with the concept of force in ancient, Medieval, and early modern
European philosophy. (BACK)
Bill Martin, Ph.D., Professor
Bill was educated at the University
of Kansas. He works
in the areas of social theory and continental philosophy, as well as
aesthetics (especially literary and musical), philosophy of religion, and
analytic philosophy. He has published six books, the most recent being Avant
rock: Experimental music from the Beatles to Bjork (Open Court, 2002). He has two books
coming out with Open Court
in spring 2005: Ethical Marxism:
the categorical imperative of liberation, and the
co-authored
volume Marxism and the call of the
future: conversations on ethics, history, and politics.
Among his current writing projects are texts on sexuality, the question of
community, and the culture of postmodern capitalism. (BACK)
William McNeill, Ph.D., Professor
Will was educated at the University of Essex, England. He specializes in
the work of Heidegger, and has research interests in modern French and
German philosophy and in Ancient Greek thought. He is author of The
Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory (SUNY,
1999). He is also editor and translator of a number of Heidegger texts,
including Pathmarks (Cambridge,
1998); Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister," co-translated with
Julia Davis (Indiana, 1996); The
Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude,
co-translated with Nicholas Walker (Indiana,
1995); and The Concept of Time (Blackwell, 1992). He has also
published Continental Philosophy: An Anthology, co-edited with Karen
Feldman (Blackwell, 1998). He is currently working on a second book, The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos.
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Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Elizabeth was educated at The State University of New York at Buffalo. She works on
early German Romanticism and Latin American Philosophy. She has taught
philosophy in Germany
and Venezuela.
She has published translations of two books: Mauricio Beuchot's Mexican Colonial Philosophy
(Catholic University Press, 1998) and Manfred Frank's The Philosophical Foundations of Early German
Romanticism (SUNY, 2004). She is co-editor of Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century:
Sources and New Directions: the human condition, values, and the search for
philosophical identity, co-edited with Jorge J.E. Gracia
(Prometheus, 2004) and The Role of
History in Latin American Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives,
co-edited with Arleen Salles (SUNY, forthcoming 2005). Recent articles
include: “El Análisis Filosófico en América Latina”, co-authored with Leo
Zaibert, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 627 (September 2002): 29-36; "A
Method for the New Millennium: Calvino and Irony," in Literary
Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco, eds. Gracia, Korsmeyer, and Gasche
(Routledge, 2002); “Romantic Rationality”, Pli. The Warwick Journal of
Philosophy, special volume entitled, Crises of the Transcendental: From
Kant to Romanticism 10 (2000): 141-155. She has held research fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2001) and the Alexander von
Humboldt Fellowship (2004-5). She is currently on leave in Germany
doing research for a book-length project on Alexander von Humboldt’s
‘romantic’ conception of science (BACK)
Darrell Moore, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Darrell was educated at Northwestern
University. He
teaches and conducts research in the areas of aesthetics, political
philosohpy, and critical race theory. He is interested in the ways in which
philosophy's project of modernity contributed to the idea of race as well
as the ways in which race is at work in modern and contemporary political
theory and aesthetics. He is also interested in the tensions created by the
confluence of Black diasporic thought with the major texts and arguments of
modern political and aesthetic theory. He was a Fellow at the Frederick
Douglass Institute at the University
of Rochester in
1998-1999. At present he is finishing a manuscript entitled Aesthetics
and Agency: On Beauty, Race, and the Practices of Freedom. (BACK)
Michael Naas, Ph.D., Professor, Director of Undergraduate
Programs
Michael was educated at The State University of New York at Stony Brook and
the École des Hautes Études Pratiques in Paris. He teaches courses and conducts
research in the areas of ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary French
philosophy. His approach to the classics is informed by thinkers such as
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, and Levinas. His recent published
work includes co-translations of Jacques Derrida, The Other Heading (Indiana, 1992), Memoirs of the Blind (Chicago, 1993), Adieu (Stanford, 1999), and Rogues (Stanford, 2004). He is
co-editor of Jacques Derrida's The
Work of Mourning (Chicago,
2000) and Chaque fois unique, la
fin du monde (Galilee,
2004). His is the author of Turning:
From Persuasion to Philosophy (Humanities, 1994) and Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the
Legacies of Deconstruction (Stanford, 2003). He has also
published articles on themes in ancient and contemporary philosophy in such
journals as Philosophy Today, Continental Philosophy, Research in
Phenomenology, and The Oxford Literary Review. (BACK)
Mollie
Painter-Morland, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Mollie
was educated at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. A more detailed
biography will follow soon. (BACK)
David W. Pellauer, Ph.D., Professor
David was educated at the University
of Chicago. He is
editor of Philosophy Today. His areas of research are twentieth
century French philosophy, especially the work of Paul Ricoeur, including Figuring
the Sacred: Religion, Narrative and Imagination; Thinking Biblically:
Essays in Exegesis and Hermeneutics; The Just; and Time and
Narrative (co-translated with Kathleen Blamey), as well as Sartre's Notebook
for an Ethics. (BACK)
Franklin Perkins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Franklin was educated at the Pennsylvania
State University
and has taught at Vassar College, HoHai
University (in Nanjing)
and Foreign Affairs College (in Beijing).
His main teaching and research interests are in early modern philosophy,
Chinese philosophy, and the history of philosophy more broadly, with
particular interests in issues of cultural exchange, intercultural philosophy,
self-cultivation, and the intersections of ethics and metaphysics. Franklin has won several awards and fellowships,
including a DAAD fellowship for research at the Leibniz Archive in Hannover, Germany
and a Blakemore Fellowship for study in Taiwan. His publications range
from Leibniz's doctrine of ideas to Mencius's view of self-cultivation, and
he is the author of Leibniz and
China: A Commerce of Light (Cambridge Unversity Press,
2004). For more information please visit his webpage. (BACK)
Elizabeth Rottenberg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Elizabeth was educated at The Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins
University. She
teaches courses and works in the areas of early modern philosophy,
contemporary French philosophy, and psychoanalysis. She is the author of Inheriting the Future: Legacies of Kant, Freud,
and Flaubert (forthcoming at Stanford University Press).
She is the editor and translator of Negotiations:
Interventions and Interviews (1971-2001) by Jacques Derrida
(Stanford, 2001). She is the translator of The Instant of My Death / Demeure by Maurice
Blanchot /Jacques Derrida (Stanford, 2000), Friendship by Maurice Blanchot (Stanford 1997), and Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
by Jean-François Lyotard (Stanford, 1993).(BACK)
Peter Steeves, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Peter was educated at Indiana
University. He has
taught at Universidad del Zulia,
Venezuela.
His main areas of teaching and research include applied ethics (especially
animal/environmental and bioethics), social and political philosophy
(especially communitarianism), Philosophy of Culture and Philosophy of
Science, and phenomenology (especially the work of Edmund Husserl). He has
published Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry
(Kluwer, 1998) and is the editor and a contributor to Animal Others: On
Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life (SUNY, 1999). (BACK)
Kevin Thompson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Kevin was educated at the University
of Memphis. His areas
of specialization are German Idealism, Contemporary French Philosophy, and
the history of political theory. He co-edited and contributed to Phenomenology of the Political
(Kluwer, 2000) and has published articles on Kant, Hegel, and Foucault.
Kevin is the Book Review Editor of Continental Philosophy Review. (BACK)
Patricia Werhane, Ph.D., Professor and Wicklander Chair of
Business Ethics
Patricia was educated at Northwestern
University. She is
Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics in the
Kellstadt School of Commerce at DePaul
University with a joint
appointment as the Peter and Adeline Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics
and Senior Fellow at of the Olsson
Center for Applied Ethics in the Darden School
at the University
of Virginia. She was
formerly the Wirtenberger Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University
Chicago. Professor Werhane graduated from Wellesley
College, and received a Ph.D. in
philosophy from Northwestern
University. She has
been a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth,
Arthur Andersen Visiting Professor at the University
of Cambridge, and Erskine Visiting
Fellow at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). Professor Werhane
has published numerous articles and is the author or editor of fifteen
books including Ethical Issues in
Business (with T. Donaldson and Margaret Cording, seventh
edition), Persons, Rights and
Corporations, Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism,
and Moral Imagination and
Managerial Decision-Making with Oxford University Press.
Her latest book is Employment and
Employee Rights (with Tara J. Radin and Norman Bowie) with
Blackwell’s. She is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics
Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. Professor
Werhane is currently a faculty advisor for the newly created Business
Roundtable Ethics Institute at the University of Virginia.
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Updated September 2004
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