David Ross Fryer Explained

David Ross Fryer is an American ethicist and writer working in phenomenology, queer theory, Africana thought, existentialism (in particular Black Existentialism), contemporary Jewish thought, and psychoanalytic theory.[1]

Education

Fryer completed a B.A. (honors) in Intellectual History and Religious Studies at The University of Pennsylvania, studying under Alan Kors and Stephen Dunning; doctoral research in Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh, studying under Vincent Hope; and an A.M and Ph.D. in Contemporary Religious Thought and Gender Studies at Brown University, studying under Wendell Dietrich and Elizabeth Weed.

Career

Fryer's first book, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan,[2] received positive reviews in both philosophical[3] and psychoanalytic[4] circles. His second book, Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity[5] and the work within it has both been cited by prominent academics[6] [7] and received attention in the queer blogosphere.[8] 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.[9] He has taught at institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University. Since 2021 he has been recovering from a heart transplant.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: David Ross Fryer, Scholar . Institute for the Study of Race & Social Thought . Temple University . 19 July 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101129021921/http://www.temple.edu/isrst/People/fryer2.asp . 29 November 2010 .
  2. Book: Fryer, David Ross. The Intervention of the Other. 2004. Other Press. New York. 978-1-59051-088-9.
  3. Turner . Donald . The Psychoanalyst and the Philosopher . Janus Head . 2006 . 9 . 1 . 260–265 . 19 July 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928172828/http://www.janushead.org/9-1/fryer.pdf . 28 September 2011 .
  4. Web site: Lichenstein . David . Publications: Book Reviews Review of The Intervention of the Other Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan . Division of Psychoanalysis . American Psychological Association . 19 July 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120327210055/http://www45.pair.com/divisdyp/pub_reviews_detail.php?book_id=212 . 27 March 2012 .
  5. Book: Fryer, David Ross. Thinking Queerly. 2010. Paradigm Publishers. Boulder, CO.
  6. Book: Gordon, Lewis R. An introduction to Africana philosophy. 2008. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-67546-8. 186.
  7. Web site: Gržinić . Marina . DE-LINKING EPISTEMOLOGY FROM CAPITAL AND PLURI-VERSALITY – A CONVERSATION WITH WALTER MIGNOLO, part 3 . Reartikulacjia . 19 July 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110502031651/http://www.reartikulacija.org/RE6/ENG/decoloniality6_ENG_mign.html . 2 May 2011 .
  8. Web site: Thinking Queerly: A Review.
  9. Web site: The Phenomenology Roundtable . Temple University . 19 July 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121012032601/http://www.temple.edu/isrst/Events/PhenomenologyRoundtable.asp . 12 October 2012 .

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