Russell Guerrero

210-999-8406

rguerrer@trinity.edu

PENN STATE PROFESSOR TO SPEAK ON THE WORK OF PHILOSOPHER JOHN DEWEY

SAN ANTONIO – Shannon Sullivan, assistant professor of philosophy and women’s studies at Penn State University, will deliver a presentation titled “Pragmatism and Critical Race Theory: John Dewey on Racialized Habits.” The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. Monday, March 4 in Trinity University’s Chapman Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public. Dr. Sullivan completed her doctoral studies at Vanderbilt University. She specializes in feminist philosophy, American pragmatism, and 19th and 20th Century continental philosophy and critical race theory. Dr. Sullivan’s recent publications include Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism and the article “Pragmatism, Psychoanalysis and Prejudice: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s The Anatomy of Prejudice,” which was published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. She is also a graduate of Trinity University. The Trinity Philosophy department sponsors her lecture with support from the political science, religion, English and women’s studies departments. For more information, call the philosophy department at 999-8305.

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