BRYAN SMYTH, PH.D.

INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Bryan Smyth is Instructional Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. His research deals primarily with phenomenology and Critical Theory, and how these traditions intersect methodologically with regard to nature and history, especially in terms of embodiment, agency, and how these relate to feminist and other forms of radical social critique. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles, his publications include Merleau-Ponty’s Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2014), an annotated translation of Merleau-Ponty’s Le monde sensible et le monde de l’expression (Northwestern, 2020), and a co-edited volume of essays on phenomenology and Marxism (Lexington, 2021). Among other things, he is currently preparing a monograph entitled Incarnating the Good: Rethinking Heroism as an Embodied Phenomenon.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Feminist Epistemology; Feminist Ethics and Political Philosophy; Phenomenology of Embodiment and Intercorporeality