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Hannah Bacon

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Studies

 

 

Biography

Hannah Bacon holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2020 and earned a Master's Degree in Philosophy from The New School in 2014 and a B.A. from Earlham College. Before joining the philosophy faculty at LSU, Hannah Bacon was the Ferraro Melon Fellow in Prison Higher Education and a Visiting Professor of Public Philosophy at Marymount Manhattan College. Additionally, Dr. Bacon has four years of experience teaching and doing advocacy in prisons and is a certified birth and death doula.

Areas of Interest

Professor Bacon's specialization is at the intersection of social and political philosophy and ethics, philosophy of law & incarceration, and critical phenomenology of race, gender, and embodiment. This research draws on contemporary and 20th-century Continental philosophy.

Selected Publications

Selected Articles/Book Chapters:

• "The Intersubjective Responsibility of Durational Trauma: Contributions of Bergson and Levinas to the Philosophy of Trauma," Continental Philosophy Review, 2021.
• "Perverse Witness: The Role of Photography and Shock Compulsion in Contemporary Trauma Discourse." Chapter in The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves. Springer, 2020 

Review Articles

• 2020 Book Review -  Levinas and the Torah: A Phenomenological Approach "Phenomenological Reviews"

Reviews/Honors Received

• Nominated by Philosophy Department for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching (2018)
• Received New School Dean's Scholarship (2010)
• Received Capstone Honors, Departmental and College Honors (2007)

Grants/Fellowships Received

• Ferraro Mellon Fellow in Prison Education and Public Philosophy Visiting Faculty Member at Marymount Manhattan College (2020 - 2022)
• Stony Brook Teaching Assistantship (2014 - 2016)