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Kieran Aarons
Originally
from Vancouver, Canada,
Kieran completed a bachelors degree in Philosophy at the University of Oregon,
and a Master's degree at the Centre for Theory and Criticism at the University of Western
Ontario in London.
His current interests lie in the period subsuming the transition from
modern philosophy to German Idealism and the inheritance of these
problematics in contemporary French philosophy. More generally, his
interests lie in philosophy of time and the event, theories of the
transcendental and philosophical logic, formalism versus vitalism,
philosophy of history, libidinal economics and contemporary Marxist and
non-Marxist accounts of the State and revolutionary practice.
Jeremy
Bell
Jeremy received his BA from the University of Oregon,
where he focused primarily upon late 19th century German and contemporary
French philosophy. He received his MA from DePaul, where he is currently
working towards his PhD, and studying Ancient philosophy, late 19th and
early 20th century German philosophy, and contemporary French philosophy,
with a special focus on the history of desire in philosophy since Plato.
Genevra Csipkay
Nev received her BA from the University of Oregon
in 2006 and spent the following year as a research student in Japan. She is most often preoccupied with the questions and concerns of feminist and queer theory,
race and postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, meta-philosophy, and the relationship between the European
philosophical canon and its outside(s).
Rick Elmore
Rick
received his B.A. from Appalachian State University, where he studied
Contemporary French philosophy, Media Theory, Feminism, and Social/Political
philosophy. He is currently completing his M.A. thesis on television and
the history of representation since Kant.
Daw-Nay Evans
Daw-Nay received his BA in philosophy from George
Mason University
and his MA in philosophy from Virginia Polytechnic and State University.
He is the Assistant Book Review Editor for Philosophia Africana. Daw-Nay is
working on a dissertation entitled "Nietzsche and Classical Greek
Philosophy: Essays on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle." His areas of
specialization include Africana philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy and
19th-century German philosophy.
Benjamin Frazer-Simser
My
current philosophical interests include: Ancient Greek, Early Modern, and
18th and 19th century philosophies. In particular,
Philosophical psychology: Eros, the Philosophy of Happiness; the
relationship between Rhetoric and Philosophy; political philosophy; and all
things Spinozistic and Nietzschean.
David Hart
David
received his B.A. from the University
of Memphis, where he
studied phenomenology in Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas. His recent
interests included Marxism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the intersections
of these fields with phenomenology. He is currently writing his M.A. thesis
on the critiques of Levinas in the works of Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek.
Liam
Heneghan
Liam
is an ecosystem ecologist currently working at DePaul University
where he is a Professor of Environmental Science. Heneghan
is co-director of DePaul
University's
Institute for Nature and Culture and is co-chair of the Chicago
Wilderness Science Team. His interests are primarily in the
relevance of continental philosophy for conservation biology and for
ecological dwelling.
Dilek Huseyinzadegan
Dilek
received her B.A. from Bogazici University, Turkey and her M.A. from DePaul University.
In addition to teaching several undergraduate classes at DePaul, she is
currently working on her dissertation on the legacy of Kant’s critical
philosophy, especially focusing on Enlightenment and its “critics”, such as
Adorno and Foucault. Her research interests include Kant and German
Idealism, Frankfurt
School,
social-political philosophy, aesthetics and philosophy of history.
O’Donavan Johnson
o'donavan
johnson is a first-year graduate student, interested in inquiries into the
relationship between the self and the other—more specifically, how one
might come to understand him/herself through the existence of an other or
others. While an undergraduate at College of the Holy Cross (Worcester,
MA), he wrote a thesis entitled, "Foucault, men, and feminist
movement," wherein he used Foucault's analysis of power to argue how
men might be more effectively approached and encouraged in (or into) to
feminist discourse(s).
Sina
Kramer
I
received my BA from Earlham College in Richmond,
Indiana. I received my MA from DePaul, and wrote my
thesis on sexual difference in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit through the
critiques of Irigaray, Derrida, and Butler.
Currently I am pursuing my PhD. at DePaul, and am interested in political
theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and the ways in which 20th
century thinkers have taken up Hegel.
Andrew LaZella
Andrew
received his BA from Hamline
University, where he
studied the phenomenologies of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. He was
also the recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship for the Humboldt University
in Berlin. At
DePaul, his MA focused on Bildung in Hegel. Andrew now plans to work
on theories of individuation for his dissertation.
Kristina Lebedeva
Kristina
received her B.A. from DePaul
University. Her
research interests broadly include German and contemporary French
philosophy. More specifically, she's interested in the relationship between
time and individuation as well as in aesthetic theory.
James Manos
James received his BA from
Appalachian State University and his MA from Miami University of Ohio. His
work focuses on the relationship between the law and the body, with an
emphasis on post-colonial and critical race theory.
Kristin
McCartney
Kristin McCartney's main
areas of interest are political philosophy with a focus in feminism, queer
theory, postcolonial theory, and critical race theory. She teaches classes in multiculturalism
and race in philosophy.
Kristin's research examines
the political philosophies that have emerged from social justice movements
in the United States. Beyond looking for great leaders, she
privileges anonymous and collective interventions; besides great works, she
reads ephemeral media: letters, pamphlets, newspapers, and, lately, blogs;
in tandem with careful arguments, she looks for manifestations of emotion,
egoism, and chance. By
problematizing (not dismissing or lionizing) the production of 'identity
politics', Kristin aims to underline how political identities themselves
can become critical, philosophical projects.
Kristin depends upon the
kindness of archivists, librarians, activists, and strangers. Send her an email if you are interested
in her work; she might buy you a cup of coffee in exchange for some good
stories.
Maureen Melnyk
Maureen received a BA in
philosophy from The University of Alberta and an MA in Theory and Criticism
from The University of Western Ontario, both in Canada. Her main interests include
contemporary French philosophy, phenomenology, feminist theory, and
aesthetics.
Stephen Meinster
Having
taken his B.A. from Duquesne
University and his
M.A. from DePaul, Steve Meinster is completing a dissertation on
phenomenological approaches to theoretical economics. His research focuses on the influence of
Husserlian phenomenology in the work of Alfred Schütz and Pierre
Bourdieu. This phenomenological
approach to economics is contrasted with Austrian free-market economics to
illustrate the limitations and distortions of postivist approaches to
economic theory-building. Steve is
also engaged in promoting a Continental philosophical approach to business
ethics. An example of Steve’s work
will be published in an anthology called Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics: Continental Challenges to
Theory and Practice (Springer, 2008), Edited by Mollie Painter-Morland
and Patricia Werhane. Click here to view Steve’s Curriculum Vitae.
Holly Moore
In
addition to teaching, Holly is currently writing a dissertation entitled,
"Plato's Analogical Thought." There she treats the subjects of
Plato's metaphysics, cosmology and methodology with readings of pivotal
analogies of the dialogues, which demonstrate that Plato's philosophy is
not merely attended by images but in fact thought through analogy. Holly is
also working with Molly Sturdevant, Amanda Parris, Andrew LaZella and Rick
Lee on a manuscript translation of a series of Latin texts on the subject
of occult causes. Her current writing projects include work on
Plato's Timaeus, Statesman, Republic, Phaedo and Philebus.
Jeff Pardikes
Jeff Pardikes
earned his B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy from Bolton
University, UK
and his M.A. in Philosophy from DePaul
University. His
research interests broadly include Hellenic Philosophy, Hermeneutics and
Gender Studies. Jeff is presently working on questions of purity in Plato's
Phaedo and on the formulations of
Bildung in Gadamer's Truth and Method.
David Pekerow
David received his B.A. from Hampshire
College and his M.A.
from DePaul. His work focuses on the intersection of political
philosophy and contemporary European thought. Currently he is preparing a
dissertation on Badiou and Foucault.
Heather Rakes
I did my undergrad at La Salle University in Philadelphia with a double major in
philosophy and english and minors in religion and history. My interests are
social and political philosophy, feminist studies, critical race theory and
mysticism.
Cavin Robinson
Cavin
did his undergrad at Penn State University
and received his M.A. from DePaul
University. His
thesis was on the ontological roots of Hobbes' aversion to civil war.
His interests include critical race theory, the history of science, early
modern and political philosophy. He is currently working on a
dissertation involving narrative theory and political identity.
Molly Sturdevant
Molly Sturdevant, B.A., Colorado
State University
(2000), M.A., DePaul (2003) is now working on her dissertation in
scholastic and early modern philosophy. Primary interests include problems
of inculsion and identity in the texts of Fransisco Suarez and John
Duns Scotus, and the possible interpretations of Cartesian thought
opened by these problems. Contemporary continental philosophers
working on similar questions, such as Jean-Luc Marion and
Gilles Deleuze, are also of interest.
Samuel Talcott
Samuel did undergraduate work at Penn
State University
and earned his master's on aesthetics and social-political philosophy at DePaul University. He is currently working
on a dissertation that investigates the changing conceptual relations of
life, power, and error in early modern and contemporary French
philosophical and medical discourses.
David Volfe
David is currently working on a project for his Ph.D dissertation involving
the problem of judgment and its relationship to the question of the common.
His interests include phenomenology and hermeneutics, especially Heidegger,
Gadamer, and Hannah Arendt.
Joseph Weiss
Joe
is generally interested in contemporary issues of Continental aesthetics.
He also has an interest in Critical Theory, as well as Kant and Hegel. For
his masters thesis he is working on Adorno's concept of Erfarung and its
role in the comportment of "modern" artworks.
Robin Weiss
Robin’s
interests are in Stoic and Epicurean philosophy. A thesis on the
relationship between rationality and desire in Hellenistic texts is
forthcoming. In addition, she works in aesthetics and ethics, as well as in
Spanish philosophy.
Thomas Floyd Wright
Floyd
received his BA from Seattle
University, where he
became interested in the promise of critical philosophy for providing
sounder foundations for raising practical questions of political life. He
is currently pursuing leads in this vein in Greek thought as well as in
German idealism, especially Hegel, inspired by the traditions of Gadamer's
philosophical hermeneutics and Heideggerian phenomenology.
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