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MA Faculty Profiles
Listed below you will find brief profiles of faculty members who frequently teach M.A. courses and who you can expect to routinely engage with as an M.A. student in Philosophy and the Arts at Stony Brook University.
Peter Carravetta
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. New York University, 1983
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Megan Craig
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Practicing Multimedia Artist
Ph.D. The New School for Social Research, 2007
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Robert Crease
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1987
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Peter Carravetta holds a PhD in French & Italian from NYU and has taught comparative
literature, history of ideas, Italian literature and philosophy, cultural studies,
methods of critique, postmodernism, and the avantgardes. A published poet, he joined
the Philosophy Department in 2018 and is presently working on the concept of will
and the ideal society in humanism from the vantage point of the post-human age, as
well as a more historical project on identity, geography, and colonialism in the second
half of the XIX century. His latest book, Language at the Boundaries, is on the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy, and was published by Bloomsbury
in 2021. For more details, please see www.petercarravetta.com.
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Dr. Megan Craig is a core member of the Philosophy and Art program at Stony Brook
University and has been a faculty member since 2007. This term she is teaching a graduate
seminar entitled “Borderland Aesthetics.” Dr. Craig is a multimedia artist interested
in fostering the intersection of theory and practice. All of her graduate courses
encourage creative writing and collaboration. Dr. Craig was the Director of the M.A.
Program in Philosophy and the Arts from 2010 until 2017.
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Robert P. Crease is a professor in and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Stony
Brook University. He is a philosopher and historian of science and also writes about
the performing arts (robertpcrease.com). He has written about the aesthetic and cultural valence of science: The Prism and the Pendulum, the Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science, and The Great Equations.
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Anne O’Byrne
Doctoral Program Director
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1999
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Lorenzo Simpson
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Yale University, 1978
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Anthony Steinbock
Department Chair
Professor of Philosophy Ph.D. Stony Brook University, 1993
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Anne O’Byrne specializes in political philosophy and has recently been working on
the problem of time for radical democratic theory. How do democracies sustain themselves?
What does today’s demos owe the past, and how does it anticipate the future? These
questions and concerns connect to an interest in public art and to the practices of
remembering and forgetting that shape political life. Her research is informed by
the work of Arendt, Derrida, Rancière, Nancy, and others.
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Dr. Lorenzo Simpson has been a member of Stony Brook's philosophy faculty since 1998.
His research focuses on hermeneutics, Critical Theory, the philosophy of race, and
the philosophy of music. He is a saxophonist and is currently working on a book about
the jazz composer Duke Ellington's compositional practice. He has recently taught
graduate seminars entitled “Critical Theory and Aesthetics,” “Improvisation,” and
“Adorno's Negative Dialectics.” Dr. Simpson’s Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture was recently published (March 2021) by Columbia University Press.
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Anthony J. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University and works in the areas of phenomenology, contemporary German and French philosophy, philosophy of religion, and aesthetics, especially the philosophy of film. Two of his most recent books include Knowing by Heart: Loving as Participation and Critique (Northwestern, 2021), and It’s Not about the Gift: From Givenness to Loving (Rowman & Littlefield Int., 2018). |
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