Biography

Dr. Julia Jansen, PhD (Stony Brook, NY), joined the department in 2002 after having studied and taught philosophy in Germany (Tübingen and Marburg) and in the United States. She received her Ph.D. in 2002 in connection with the Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum (a transatlantic cooperation of philosophy scholars and doctoral students from Stony Brook, Emory, Marburg and Wuppertal/Germany).

Dr. Jansen has worked mainly on Kant’s theoretical philosophy, Husserlian phenomenology, and aesthetics. She is the author of ‘Imagination in Transcendental Philosophy: Kant and Husserl Reconsidered’ (under review with Cambridge UP). She is co-editor of ‘Rediscovering Aesthetics’, with Tony O’Connor and Francis Halsall (Stanford University Press, 2008) and of ‘Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices’, with Sinead Murphy and Francis Halsall (under review with Springer).

Currently Dr. Jansen is working on a critical analysis of phenomenological aesthetics.

Areas of Specialization:

Phenomenology, esp. Husserl, and Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy; Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics

Areas of Competence:

Philosophy of Mind; Consciousness Studies; Philosophy and Cognitive Science; Feminist Philosophy; Critical Theory

Links

CV: [Click Here for PDF] 

"Phenomenology, Imagination and Interdisciplinary Research" :[Click here for PDF]