March 2008 Archives

Professor Robert Bernasconi will join the philosophy faculty at Penn State in Fall 2009 as Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy.  Professor Bernasconi’s primary research and teaching interests lie in critical philosophy of race, particularly in relation to the history of philosophy, and Continental philosophy, especially figures such as Sartre, Levinas, and Heidegger. He is the author of How to Read Sartre (W.W. Norton, 2007), Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (Humanities Press, 1993), and The Question of Language in Heidegger’s History of Being (Humanities Press, 1985).  

He is the editor or co-editor of thirteen books, including Race, Hybridity, and Miscegenation (Thoemmes, 2005), Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy (Indiana UP, 2003), The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (Cambridge UP, 2002), Race (Blackwell, 2001), The Idea of Race (Hackett, 2000) and Re-Reading Levinas (Indiana UP, 1991).

We are very excited to welcome Robert to the department.

Professor Kathryn Gines will join the philosophy faculty at Penn State in Fall 2008. In 2008-09 she will be a Philosophy and Africana Research Center Post-doctorate Fellow and beginning fall 2009 she will be an Assistant Professor in Philosophy. 

Henry Wang has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, GA.  His dissertation was entitled Conscience and Ethics, Thinking across the limits of Normativity. Henry writes:

I am delighted to have accepted a position in the department of History, Geography and Philosophy at Georgia College and State University. This is a small but dynamic department and its teaching and research orientations are in good accord with my own specialties, ie. Continental and Asian Philosophy. 

I am especially excited to have the freedom to design upper level courses that will bring the Western and Eastern traditions into active dialogue with each other.

We want to congratulate Henry on his successful placement and wish him great success in his future endeavors.  Henry has been an extremely productive and conscientious member of our department and he will be missed.

Bryan Lueck, who defended his dissertation in 2007 entitled, Imperative Sense and Libidinal Event, has accepted a position in the Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.  Bryan writes:

I am very happy to have accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. SIUE is a part of the Southern Illinois University system and is located approximately 20 miles outside of St. Louis, MO. I am especially excited about the opportunity I will have there to teach regularly in my area of specialization (Contemporary Continental Philosophy). 

I am grateful to the Department of Philosophy at Penn State for doing so much to help me get to this point and I am extraordinarily proud to have earned my Ph.D. here.