Megan Craig
MA Program Director • Associate Professor
Philosophy
Education: Ph.D. The New School for Social Research, 2007 • B.A. Yale University, 1997
Areas of Specialization: Aesthetics, Phenomenology, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Levinas
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.
To learn more about Professor Craig, please visit her website, Instagram and review her Curriculum Vitae.
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.
To learn more about Professor Craig, please visit her website, Instagram and review her Curriculum Vitae.