New Faculty Position:
The Department is pleased to announce one new Associate Professor position, described below. A search to fill this opening is underway, and applications and nominations are invited.
Social and Political Philosophy
Professor John Lysaker appeared on Digital Dialogue, where he discussed his recent book, Emerson and Self-Culture. Click the link to hear the discussion.
The 2009 annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) showcased the work of many in our department. Professors Tom Flynn, David Carr, Andrew Mitchell, Rudi Makkreel, John Stuhr, Michael Sullivan, Geoffrey Bennington, Lynne Huffer, and Elissa Marder all delivered papers. Professor Sullivan also commented on another paper, and Professors John Lysaker and Sean Meighoo chaired sessions. Recent Emory Ph.D.s Emily Parker (Santa Clara) and Denise James (Dayton) also gave papers, and Peter Milne (Santa Clara) served as a session chair. Professor Cindy Willett is Co-Executive Director of SPEP...Find out more
Professor Jack Zupko promotes joy of intellectual debate at Dekalb’s Shamrock Middle School…Find out more
We are very pleased to announce the appointment, effective Fall 2009, of John T. Lysaker as Professor of Philosophy. Professor Lysaker's primary research and teaching interests lie in Philosophical Psychology, focusing upon the nature of the self, including its fate in schizophrenia, and in Social and Political Philosophy, with a focus on reconstructing individualism and the nature and social function of social criticism and the arts. He is the author of three books, including the most recent "Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self" (Oxford U P, 2008 -- co-authored with Paul Lysaker) and "Emerson and Self-Culture" (Indiana U P, 2008). His articles have appeared in journals such as "The Georgia Review," "Journal of Speculative Philosophy," "New German Critique," "Research in Phenomenology," "Schizophrenia Bulletin," and "Tri-Quarterly." Currently he is Vice President of the International Society for Dialogical Science (and an editor of its journal, IJDS) and he is completing a three-year term on the executive board of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Professor Lysaker received his A.B. from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Since 1996, he has been at the University of Oregon, where he currently is Chair of the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Program Faculty in The Program of Comparative Literature. Professor Lysaker is an avid fan of music of all sorts (Bach to Joan Tower to Will Oldham and Mogwai) and sings for the band, "No! I am Spartacus," based in Eugene, Oregon. Professor Lysaker and his wife, Dr. Hilary Hart, are thrilled to join the Emory community. He writes: "Emory's long-standing commitment to the liberal arts and to the Humanities in particular is exemplary. It is an honor to join a Philosophy Department and University so dedicated to the ongoing project of humanity."
The Department happily announces the appointment, effective August 2009, of Sean Meighoo as Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the Liberal Arts. In 2005, Professor Meighoo received his Ph.D. in social and political thought from York University, and he has taught the last three years in the department of philosophy and the liberal arts and sciences graduate program at San Diego State University. His principal teaching and research interests are in 20th century European philosophy and literary theory and also postcolonial, feminist, queer, and posthumanist studies. His most recent, "Derrida's Chinese Prejudice," was published in 2008 in Cultural Critique, and he now is working on a follow-up paper "Derrida's Last Word," as well as a book project on the complicated relationship between twentieth-century continental philosophy and postcolonial theory, called The End of the West. At Emory he will teach in both the Department of Philosophy and the ILA, and he notes “I look forward to joining such an intellectually diverse department, and to collaborating with both my colleagues and my students on new areas of philosophical research.” |
