Peg Birmingham, Ph.D., (email) Professor, Duquesne University Tina Chanter, Ph.D., (email) Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Fordham University Avery Goldman, Ph.D., (email) Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Programs, The Pennsylvania State University Namita Goswami, Ph.D., (email) Assistant Professor, Emory University Jason D. Hill, Ph.D., (email) Associate Professor, Purdue University Sean Kirkland, Ph.D., (email) Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook David Farrell Krell, Ph.D., Professor, Duquesne University (contact by postal mail only) Mary Jeanne Larrabee, Ph.D., (email) Professor, University of Toronto Richard A. Lee, Jr., Ph.D., (email) Professor and Chair of Department, New School University Bill Martin, Ph.D., (email) Professor, University of Kansas William McNeill, Ph.D., (email) Professor, University of Essex Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert, Ph.D., (email) Associate Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo

Darrell Moore, Ph.D., (email) Associate Professor, Northwestern University Michael Naas, Ph.D., (email) Professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook Mollie Painter-Morland, Ph.D. (email) Assistant Professor, University of Pretoria David W. Pellauer, Ph.D., (email) Professor, University of Chicago Franklin Perkins, Ph.D., (email) Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs, The Pennsylvania State University Elizabeth Rottenberg, Ph.D., (email) Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University Peter Steeves, Ph.D., (email) Associate Professor, Indiana University Kevin Thompson, Ph.D., (email) Associate Professor, University of Memphis Patricia Werhane, Ph.D., (email) Professor, Northwestern University Parvis Emad, Ph.D.,  Professor Emeritus, University of Vienna Manfred S. Frings, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Cologne James Keating, Ph.D., Catholic University of America Gerald F. Kreyche, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa Thomas N. Munson, S.T.L., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Louvain

Faculty Biographies Peg Birmingham, Ph.D., Professor Peg was educated at Duquesne University. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of political thought, ethics, and feminist theory. She is particularly interested in modern and contemporary political thought, emphasizing the texts of Hobbes, Rousseau, Arendt, Heidegger, Kristeva, and Foucault. She has published in journals such as Research In Phenomenology, Hypatia, and The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal on topics that include radical evil, human rights, and the temporality of the political. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (Indiana University Press, 2006) and co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (Koros 1995). She is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled, "A Lying World Order: Deception as a Philosophical and Political Problem." (BACK) Tina Chanter, Ph.D., Professor, Placement & Recruitment Director Tina Chanter was educated at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is author of Ethics of Eros: Irigaray’s Re-writing of the Philosophers (Routledge, 1995); Time, Death and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger (Stanford University Press, 2001); Gender: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum, 2007); and The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference (Indiana University Press, 2007). She is editor of Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas (Penn State University Press), co-editor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis (State University of New York Press, 2005), and co-editor of Sarah Kofman’s Corpus (SUNY Press, forthcoming, 2008). She is also editor of the Gender Theory series at the State University of New York Press. Her current book project is The Political Legacies of Antigone. (BACK) Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Ph.D., Associate Professor Professor Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (1963-2007) died after a short illness on December 30, 2007 in Lewisburg, Pa at age 44. Emmanuel was born in Agbokete, in what was Northern Region of Nigeria to Nigerian parents, Daniel and Rebecca, who are Igbo and devout Catholics. Because of his parents' ethnicity and religion they fled the North during the Nigerian Civil War to Nsukka, in the eastern part of the country. He received his Masters (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) from Fordham University. In 1993 Emmanuel joined the philosophy faculty at Bucknell University. In 2000, Emmanuel moved to Chicago, Illinois to take up a position as Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University where Emmanuel was a well-known specialist in postcolonial philosophy. He was the founding editor of Philosophia Africana, and also published influential postcolonial histories of philosophy in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. From 1996–97 he was a post-doctoral visiting scholar at Cambridge University, UK. He also held many visiting appointments in the U.S. and in Africa. His latest book, On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism will appear posthumously with Duke University Press. (BACK) Avery Goldman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Programs Avery was educated at the Pennsylvania State University. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of Late Modern Philosophy, particularly Kant, and Phenomenology, focusing on issues concerning both epistemology and aesthetics. He has published articles in collections such as the Proceedings of the International Kant Congress, and the Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, and has one forthcoming in Kant-Studien. Avery was a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow at Fordham University. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Kantian Hermeneutics, which deals with the question of method in transcendental philosophy. (BACK) Namita Goswami, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Namita was educated at Emory University. She works in 19th- and 20th -century Continental Philosophy and Postcolonial, Critical Race, Feminist, and Queer Theory. Selected publications include “Auto-Phagia and Queer Trans-Nationality: Compulsory Hetero- Imperial Masculinity in Deepa Mehta’s Fire,” SIGNS: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 33, Number 2, Winter 2008; “Existence Authoritarian: Compulsion, Facticity and the Philosophy of Identity,” Rethinking Facticity, (Albany: State University of New York Press), edited by François Raffoul and Eric Sean Nelson, forthcoming March 2008; “Shifting Grounds: Identity, Partition, and the Anglo-Indian Subject of History,” South Asian Review: A Journal of South Asian Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume 27, Number 1, 2006. She also co-authored with Dr. Paul Courtright, “Who was Roop Kanwar? Sati, Law, Religion, and Post-Colonial Feminism,” in Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), edited by Dr. Gerald J. Larson, 2001. She is currently completing a manuscript on philosophy, feminism, and postcolonial theory. (BACK) Jason Hill, Ph.D., Associate 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. Jason has recently completed his second book on cosmopolitanism, Tribalism: A Moral Diagnosis. His articles have been published in anthologies and journals in Germany, the Czech Republic and The Netherlands. His current project is on the right to permanent residency as a human right. (BACK) Sean Kirkland, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Sean was educated at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and also in Germany at the Bergische Universität, Wuppertal. His primary interest is in ancient philosophy, but he also does work in contemporary philosophy, specifically phenomenology. He is currently busy with two book manuscripts. Ontology and Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Early Dialogues, a revised version of his dissertation, is a phenomenological interpretation of Socratic philosophical method. The other manuscript, now at an early stage, is a study of temporality or the ontological structure of the present moment as it appears in Aristotle’s Physics, Ethics, Politics, and Poetics. His work has been published in various collections, festschrift, and journals including Ancient Philosophy, Epoche, Research in Phenomenology, and the Bochumer philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter. (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, feminism, Asian philosophy, and gender studies, 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., Professor and Chair of Department 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 The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force (Palgrave-St. Martin's, 2002), and 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 project on the possibility of materialism that takes Hobbes as a clue. (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 Time of Life: Heidegger and Ēthos (State University of New York Press, 2006), and 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). (BACK) Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Programs Elizabeth was educated at The State University of New York at Buffalo and at the Eberhard-Karls Universität in Tübingen. She works on aesthetics, German Idealism/Romanticism and Latin American Philosophy. Before coming to DePaul, Elizabeth taught at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela. She has held fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy (SUNY, 2007). She is co-editor (with Arleen Salles) of The Role of History in Latin American Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives (SUNY Press, 2005) and with Jorge Gracia of Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: the human condition, values, and the search for philosophical identity (Prometheus, 2004), and with Bärbel Frischmann of The New Light of German Romanticism (Schöningh Verlag, forthcoming, 2008). She is translator of Manfred Frank’s, The Philosophical Foundations of Early-German Romanticism (SUNY, 2004). Recent articles include: “The Revival of Frühromantik in the Anglophone World,” Philosophy Today (Spring 2005), “Borderline Philosophy? Incompleteness, Incomprehension, and the Romantic Transformation of Philosophy,” Yearbook on German Idealism 6 (2008), “A Great Vanishing Act? The Latin American Philosophical Tradition and How Ariel and Caliban Helped Save It from Oblivion,” CR: The New Centennial Review (2008). She is currently at work on a book-length study of Alexander von Humboldt’s Romantic 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 philosophy, 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 Michael was educated at The State University of New York at Stony Brook and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales 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), Rogues (Stanford, 2004), and Learning to Live Finally (Melville, 2007). 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), Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (Stanford, 2003), and Derrida From Now On (Fordham, forthcoming 2008). He has also published numerous articles on themes in ancient and contemporary philosophy in such journals as Philosophy Today, Continental Philosophy, Research in Phenomenology, Mosaic, Epochē, Paragraph, and The Oxford Literary Review. (BACK) Mollie Painter-Morland, Ph.D., Associate Professor Mollie Painter-Morland (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University and Associate Director of its Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. She was educated at the University of Johannesburg and the University of Pretoria in South Africa. For many years, she was the Director of the Centre for Business and Professional Ethics at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. In this capacity she acted as ethics management consultant to various business corporations and the South African government, and pursued research into proactive corruption prevention strategies. Since her move to DePaul University in Chicago in 2004, Mollie has been concentrating on her research, which focuses on understanding the emergence of a certain ethos in various organizational contexts. In 2007, she completed two book projects. The first book, with Cambridge University Press (2008), is entitled: Business Ethics, Business Ethos. In this book she argues that we should replace ethics programs in organizations with an interactive process aimed at facilitating the emergence of an ethical corporate ethos. The second text, Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics: Continental Challenges to Theory and Practice (Springer, 2008) is a volume that Mollie co-edited with colleague Patricia Werhane. This volume is one of the first of its kind to invite scholars to apply Continental philosophy to the field of Business Ethics. Mollie serves as Editor of Springer’s series in Business Ethics. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), the Ethics Oversight Board of PwC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) South Africa, and the Editorial Board of AJOBE, the African Journal of Business Ethics. In addition to her book projects, Mollie continues to publish peer reviewed articles in many of the most prominent journals in her field, including Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Ethics: A European Review. As the Associate Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, she also provide continuing professional education by offering short training workshops in professional ethics to CPA’s and other professionals. (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. David's published work includes translations of the following works of Ricoeur: 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). He has also translated Sartre's Notebook for an Ethics. (BACK) Franklin Perkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor Franklin received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University and has taught at Vassar College, HoHai University (Nanjing) and Foreign Affairs College (Beijing). His main teaching and research interests are in early modern philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and in comparative philosophy and the challenges of doing philosophy in a comparative or intercultural context. Franklin spent a year doing research at the Leibniz Archive in Hannover, Germany, with a DAAD fellowship, and has spent four years in China, most recently on Fulbright Research Grant in affiliation with Peking University. His publications range from Leibniz's doctrine of ideas to Mencius's views of self-cultivation, and he is the author of Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum Press, 2007). Franklin is currently chair of the committee for DePaul’s Chinese Studies program and is on the editorial board of the Journal for Chinese Philosophy. (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 (Stanford University Press, 2005). 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., Associate 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 H. Werhane is the Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics 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 over twenty books including Ethical Issues in Business (with T. Donaldson, eighth edition), Persons, Rights and Corporations, Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism, Organization Ethics for Health Care, and Moral Imagination and Managerial Decision-Making with Oxford University Press, and Employment and Employee Rights (with Tara J. Radin and Norman Bowie) with Blackwell’s. She has written numerous cases in business ethics. 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 member of the academic advisory team for the Business Roundtable Ethics Institute housed at the University of Virginia. Her current research projects focus on feminism in business and poverty reduction through for-profit initiatives. (BACK) This page last updated January 22, 2008