Faculty

Shannon Sullivan

Professor of Philosophy, Women's Studies,
and African and African American Studies,
Philosophy Department Head

Shannon Sullivan Education:
  • B.A., Trinity University (Texas)
  • M.A., Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Areas of Specialization:
  • Feminist philosophy
  • American Pragmatism
  • 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy
  • Critical Philosophy of Race
Recent Courses:
  • Seminar on Simone de Beauvoir
  • Is Race Real? Philosophy and Critical Race Theory
  • Seminar on John Dewey
  • French Feminism: Beauvoir, Irigaray, Kristeva
  • Feminist Epistemologies
  • Whiteness and White Privilege
  • Seminar on Josiah Royce
  • Philosophy and Feminism
Recent Publications:
  • Race Questions and Other Essays by Josiah Royce, Fordham UP American Philosophy Series (Fordham UP, 2009). Co-edited with Scott Pratt.
  • Difficulties of Ethical Life, Fordham UP Perspectives on Continental Philosophy Series (Fordham UP, 2008). Co-edited with Dennis Schmidt.
  • Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, SUNY Series on Philosophy and Race, (SUNY Press, 2007). Co-edited with Nancy Tuana.
  • Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (Indiana University Press, 2006)
  • “White World-Traveling,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2004, 18(4): 300-04
  • “From the Foreign to the Familiar: Confronting Dewey Confronting Racial Prejudice,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2004, 18(3): 193-202.
  • “Ethical Slippages, Shattered Horizons, and the Zebra Striping of the Unconscious: Fanon on Social, Bodily, and Psychical Space,” Philosophy and Geography, February 2004, 7(1): 9-24.
  • “Racialized Habits: Dewey on Race and the Roma,” in Pragmatism and Values: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume One, eds. John Ryder and Emil Višòovský (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2004) 139-48.
  • “The Unconscious Life of Race: Freudian Resources for Critical Race Theory,” in Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis Through Philosophy, ed. Jon Mills (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2004) 195-218.
  • “W.E.B. Du Bois,” in The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, eds. Armen Marsoobian and John Ryder (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004) 199-209.
  • Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism (Indiana UP, 2001).
  Current Projects:
  • I currently am working on what it might mean to transform whiteness into something other than a category of racial oppression.

 

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