Hannah Bacon
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy Director of Graduate Studies for Philosophy 117 Coates Hall 225-578-2380 |
Professor Bacon studies contemporary and twentieth-century continental philosophy with special interest in the intersections of social, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law and incarceration, and critical phenomenology of race, gender, and embodiment. Before joining the philosophy faculty at LSU, Professor Bacon was the Ferraro Melon Fellow in Prison Higher Education and a Visiting Professor of Public Philosophy at Marymount Manhattan College. In addition to having four years of experience teaching and doing advocacy in prisons, Professor Bacon is a certified birth and death doula.
B.A. in Philosophy, Earlham College (2007)
M.A. in Philosophy, The New School (2014)
Ph.D. in Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook (2020)
PHIL 2006 Philosophy of Life, Death, & Dying
PHIL 2025: Bioethics
PHIL 3001: Existentialism
PHIL 3062: Problems in Political Philosophy
PHIL 4945: Problems in Political Philosophy
PHIL 4947: Topics in Philosophy of Law
PHIL 4948: Phenomenology
Recipient of the Provost’s Fund for Innovation in Research, Co-PI, LSU (2024)
Ferraro Mellon Fellow in Prison Education and Public Philosophy Visiting Faculty Member at Marymount Manhattan College (2020-2022)
Nominated for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching (2018)
Recipient of Stony Brook Teaching Assistantship (2014-2016)
Recipient of the New School Dean's Scholarship (2010)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters
"The Intersubjective Responsibility of Durational Trauma: Contributions of Bergson and Levinas to the Philosophy of Trauma," Continental Philosophy Review 55 (2021):159-75
"Perverse Witness: The Role of Photography and Shock Compulsion in Contemporary Trauma Discourse," in The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves, ed. Ana Falcato and Sara Graça da Silva (Springer, 2020), 101-21.
Book Reviews
Review of Richard I. Sugarman, Levinas and the Torah: A Phenomenological Approach (SUNY Press, 2019) in Phenomenological Reviews (26 January 2020)