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Megan CraigAssociate Professor Ph.D. The New School for Social Research, 2007
Harriman Hall 244 Tel: (631) 632-7570 |
Megan Craig is an artist and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, where she teaches courses in Aesthetics, Phenomenology, and 20th-century continental philosophy. Her research interests include color, synesthesia, autism, psychoanalysis, and embodiment. She is the author of Levinas and James: Towards a Pragmatic Phenomenology (Indiana University Press, 2009) and is currently at work on a book on Levinas, Derrida, and palliative care in America. Her paintings, installations, performances, and public works have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Emmanuel Levinas's ethics; the relationship between Levinas's phenomenology and William James's radical empiricism; and the aesthetic dimensions of Levinas's prose; memory and trauma in Freud and Kristeva; subjectivity and embodiment; and notions of experience, limits, and pivots phenomenology and painting; considering the state of painting after the "death" of painting; the challenges contemporary art poses to traditional aesthetic categories; and the value of phenomenology for destabilizing philosophic discourse on art.
Professor Megan Craig's Curriculum Vitae