Philosophy and/of/as/in literature
A group of scholars working at the junction of philosophy—particularly aesthetics/the philosophy of art—and literature (broadly construed).
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@pfessenbecker.bsky.social
@gadberry.bsky.social
comp lit prof |📕Cartesian Poetics (Chicago 2020) |working on: a book about causality, another book on clapping (really)| andreagadberry.com |📍NYC
@aobrandel.bsky.social
Anthropologist; politics of language; translation; literature; anticolonialism; ordinary language philosophy New book is out now: https://utorontopress.com/9781487543693/moving-words
@kqandrews.bsky.social
“poetry person,” university of ottawa. displaced pennsylvanian. www.kqandrews.com.
@lauraashe.bsky.social
Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused. Never knowingly underdressed. New book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
@erin-e-greer.bsky.social
lit prof at UT Dallas working with novels, ordinary language philosophy, political theory, eco/animal stuff, and ethics| book: https://tinyurl.com/IdealOfConversation (intro’s free via Resources tab)| https://profiles.utdallas.edu/erin.greer
@torilmoi.bsky.social
Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.
@kevinspencer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Wenzhou-Kean University. First-generation college graduate. Writing a book on the American influence on and inheritance of French existentialism. 경기도 안산, 浙江温州, Alberta. https://wku.edu.cn/faculty/kevin-spencer/
@jocarruthers.bsky.social
Writing a long book on roughness & class in Victorian Britain & a short book on biblical allusion in Victorian Lit; otherwise: Bible & literature, aesthetics & politics; sand & coastlines; teaches Eng Lit at Lancaster Uni, UK. Cat convert. She/her
@bendavies.bsky.social
Contemporary Literature, Novels, Theory, Time, Readers, Reading, Sociology of Literature. New book - Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Currently working on reading practices, times, and spaces.
@tashaalden.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction at @AberUni. Lit & philosophy/theology, esp. Iris Murdoch & M Robinson, language of fertility, queer historical fiction, MedHums. Schools / access. Buddhisty-Quaker. LWithTheT
@dissentum.bsky.social
Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; occasional translator. Assoc. prof. Not on xitter. Views/prons: his. Books: Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent/Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (ed.) both @uminnpress.bsky.social
@freihanddenker.bsky.social
PhD on Metaethics. Virtues, Moral Phenomenology, The Good Life. Currently unemployed. GER/ENG They/Them | Dey/Deren 🪻🖤 🏳️⚧️
@wiglet1981.bsky.social
Philosopher at University of Bristol 🏳️🌈 he/him https://richardpettigrew.com/ Books: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality | Choosing for Changing Selves | Dutch Book Arguments | Accuracy and the Laws of Credence | Who Are Universities For?
@ladyartaud.bsky.social
poet/critic/mfa/lesbian/trans/etc. literally schizophrenic. she/her/thou/thy. a severe object with pleasing geometry
@briceezell.bsky.social
Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL. PhD in English, University of Texas. Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy. Writing a book on Tom Stoppard. https://boxd.it/1rEO5
@bonniehonig.bsky.social
PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic, and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind). New article on Singin in the Rain ☔️ and Sorry to Bother You 🐴 out now in Cultural Critique
@ritafelski.bsky.social
Currently finishing "Reading with the New Frankfurt School." PSA: postcritique is not anti-critique. Corgi lover
@simoncd.bsky.social
Bookish married English professor, living between Brisbane and Berlin. Interested in way too much, reads indiscriminately, and, cant seem to help myself, has opinions on pretty much everything.
@jmja.bsky.social
Professor of English at Johns Hopkins / Senior Editor of ELH / Incoming Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. Books etc. at jeannemariejackson.com
@yipingong.bsky.social
Philosophy & Literature at JHU | Aesthetics | Ethics | Moral Psychology | Existentialism | The Novel | Writer, Teacher, Humanities Advocate.
@pfessenbecker.bsky.social
Teaching writing and ethics to engineers, writing a book on George Eliot.