David Ross Fryer
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David Ross Fryer is an ethicist working in phenomenology, queer theory
, Africana thought
, existentialism
(in particular Black Existentialism
), secular Jewish thought
, and psychoanalytic theory
. He completed a B.A. (honors) in Intellectual History at The University of Pennsylvania, doctoral research in Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh, and an A.M and Ph.D. in Contemporary Religious Thought at Brown University
. His first book, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan, received positive reviews in both philosophical and psychoanalytic circles. His second book, Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity and the work within it has both been cited by prominent academics and received attention in the queer blogosphere. He has been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Judaic Studies, both at Temple University. He is a founding member of the Phenomenology Roundtable. He currently teaches in the Program in Women's Studies at Drexel University.
Queer theory
Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of LGBT studies and feminist studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself...
, Africana thought
Africana studies
In United States education, Africana studies, or Africology is the study of the histories, politics and cultures of peoples of African origin both in Africa and in the African diaspora....
, existentialism
Existentialism
Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...
(in particular Black Existentialism
Black existentialism
Black existentialism or Africana critical theory is a school of thought that "critiques domination and affirms the empowerment of Black people in the world". Although it shares a word with existentialism and that philosophy's concerns with existence and meaning in life, it "is predicated on the...
), secular Jewish thought
Jewish thought
Jewish Thought is a field of Jewish Studies that deals with the products of Jewish thought and culture throughout the ages, and their historical development...
, and psychoanalytic theory
Psychoanalytic theory
Psychoanalytic theory refers to the definition and dynamics of personality development which underlie and guide psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy. First laid out by Sigmund Freud, psychoanalytic theory has undergone many refinements since his work...
. He completed a B.A. (honors) in Intellectual History at The University of Pennsylvania, doctoral research in Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh, and an A.M and Ph.D. in Contemporary Religious Thought at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. His first book, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan, received positive reviews in both philosophical and psychoanalytic circles. His second book, Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity and the work within it has both been cited by prominent academics and received attention in the queer blogosphere. He has been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Judaic Studies, both at Temple University. He is a founding member of the Phenomenology Roundtable. He currently teaches in the Program in Women's Studies at Drexel University.