Researcher

Associate Professor James Andrew Phillips

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Philosophy, Aesthetics, Phenomenology, Cinema studies, Political theory and political philosophy, British and Irish literature, History of philosophy

SEO tags

Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies

Understanding Europe's Past

Biography

I have been at UNSW since 2006, first as a Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral fellow, then as an ARC Australian Research Fellow (2007-2011), before taking up a combined research-teaching position in Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Languages.

I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland, undertook an MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at Monash University, and was then awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy...view more

I have been at UNSW since 2006, first as a Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral fellow, then as an ARC Australian Research Fellow (2007-2011), before taking up a combined research-teaching position in Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Languages.

I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland, undertook an MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at Monash University, and was then awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tasmania in 2002. During my doctoral studies I spent nine months in Innsbruck as an OeAD scholar and six months in Potsdam as a DAAD scholar. I have since then been a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and a resident associate at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.

Apart from the publications listed below, I have also translated two books: Christoph Menke, Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009) and Alexander García Düttmann, Philosophy of Exaggeration (London: Continuum, 2007).

My Qualifications

MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory (Monash), PhD in Philosophy (UTas)

My Research Activities

I am currently engaged in a book project on the philosophy of fiction, drawing on the concepts of "world" in Kant and Heidegger.

Forthcoming publications:

Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros.: Ideology and Utopia in the Hollywood Musical (New York: Bloomsbury, accepted January 2024)

"Tennessee Williams' Escapology and the Heterotopia of 'The Mysteries of the Joy Rio'", Textual Practice (accepted January 2024)

“A Fallible Narrator and an Inscrutable Object: Desire as Structure in Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband”, Studies in East European Thought (accepted April 2024)