MA Faculty
MA Faculty
Listed below you will find brief profiles of faculty members who frequently teach M.A. courses and who you can expect to routinely engage with as an M.A. student in Philosophy and the Arts at Stony Brook University.
- Peter CarravettaProfessorPh.D. New York University, 1983
Prof. Carravetta has taught Italian literature and philosophy, cultural studies, methods of critique, postmodernism. A published poet, he joined the Philosophy Department in 2018. His book, Language at the Boundaries (Bloomsbury 2021) deals with the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy.
- Megan CraigMA Director, Associate ProfessorPh.D. The New School for Social Research, 2007
Prof. Craig is a core member of the Philosophy and Art program at Stony Brook University and has been a faculty member since 2007. All of her graduate courses encourage creative writing and collaboration.
You can follow her work on Instagram @waterstreetprojects or on her website.
- Robert CreaseProfessorPh.D. Columbia University, 1987
Prof. Crease is a professor in the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University. He is a philosopher and historian of science and also writes about the performing arts. Several of his books have been about the aesthetic and cultural valence of science, including The Prism and the Pendulum, the Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science, and The Great Equations. Crease has also written an award-winning play about scientific issues.
- Valentina MoroAssistant ProfessorPh.D. University of Padua, 2018
Prof. Moro's research intersects feminist philosophy, political theory, and classical antiquity. She has been developing the concept of 'choreographies of vulnerability and care,' an aesthetico-political analysis of the politics of care from ancient Greek drama to contemporary feminist mobilizations.
- Anne O'ByrneDoctoral Program Director, Associate ProfessorPh.D. Vanderbilt University, 1999
Prof. O’Byrne specializes in political philosophy and has recently been working on the problem of time for radical democratic theory. How do democracies sustain themselves? What does today’s demos owe the past, and how does it anticipate the future? These questions and concerns connect to an interest in public art and to the practices of remembering and forgetting that shape political life. Her research is informed by the work of Arendt, Derrida, Rancière, Nancy, and others.
- Lorenzo SimpsonProfessorPh.D. Yale University, 1978
Prof. Simpson has been a member of Stony Brook's philosophy faculty since 1998. His research focuses on hermeneutics, Critical Theory, the philosophy of race, and the philosophy of music. He is a saxophonist and is currently working on a book about the jazz composer Duke Ellington's compositional practice. Dr. Simpson’s Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture was recently published (March 2021) by Columbia University Press.
- Anthony SteinbockChair, ProfessorPh.D. Stony Brook University, 1993
Prof. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University and works in the areas of phenomenology, contemporary German and French philosophy, philosophy of religion, and aesthetics, especially the philosophy of film. Two of his most recent books include Knowing by Heart: Loving as Participation and Critique (Northwestern, 2021), and It’s Not about the Gift: From Givenness to Loving (Rowman & Littlefield Int., 2018).