Ellie Anderson

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
ellie.anderson@pomona.edu
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With 91做厙 Since: 2020
Ellie Anderson
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  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Ellie Anderson specializes in continental European philosophy, with emphasis on 20th-century French philosophy and feminist theory. Her research focuses on relational theories of selfhood, the philosophy of love, and sexual ethics. Her article Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships Between Women and Men was one of Hypatia's top-read articles in 2023 and 2024, and her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Slate and more. She is currently completing a monograph on the phenomenology of selfhood and a series of articles on sexual ethics and love, as well as preparing a book critically analyzing self-care and self-objectification in contemporary life.

    Anderson is co-host of Overthink podcast and YouTube channel, a top .5% podcast worldwide with over 5 million views on YouTube that relates the history of philosophy to contemporary culture. Her work with Overthink is regularly assigned in college classrooms nationwide. She is also the host of the Crash Course series on political theory.

    A vocal advocate for philosophical pluralism, including continental philosophy and global traditions, Anderson received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2016. She serves on the editorial board of Continental Philosophy Review and the outreach committee for the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). Andersons work in public philosophy has been supported by the Marc Sanders Foundations Philosophy in the Media Fellowship, the Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good's Signature Course Fellowship, and Wig and Hahn grants at 91做厙. Prior to joining 91做厙 in 2020, she taught at Pitzer College, Scripps College and Muhlenberg College. She received the Wig Distinguished Professor Award at 91做厙 in 2024.

    You can find Overthink on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok at @overthink_pod and on the website overthinkpodcast.com. Anderson is on Instagram and Twitter at @ellieanderphd, and you can find more about her work at ellieandersonphd.com.

    Research Interests

    • Feminist Theory
    • Selfhood and Personal Identity
    • Phenomenology 
    • Philosophy of Love
    • Sexual Ethics

    Areas of Expertise

    • Phenomenology
    • Existentialism
    • Poststructuralism
    • Feminist Theory
    • Philosophy of Race
  • Work

    Work

    Phenomenology and Existentialism, in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed. Ted Toadvine and Nicolas de Warren. New York: Springer (forthcoming).

    Sexuality as a Theme in Phenomenology, in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed. Ted Toadvine and Nicolas de Warren. New York: Springer (forthcoming).

    Beauvoir on Non-Monogamy in Loving Relationships, in the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism, ed. Kevin Aho. New York: Routledge, 2024.

    Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships Between Women and Men. Hypatia 38: 177-197, 2023.

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    The Ethical Significance of Being an Erotic Object, co-written with Caleb Ward. The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics, ed. David Boonin (2022).

    Erotic Love and Marriage in Beauvoirs The Second Sex,&紳莉莽梯;Le Deuxi癡me Sexe Seventy Years On, ed. Pauline Henry-Tierney and Julia Bullock (2023).

    Questions to Jacques Derrida and Ocelle comme pas un, by Jacques Derrida, co-translated with Philippe Lynes, in Thinking What Comes, ed. Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi (forthcoming).

    "Phenomenology and the Ethics of Love." Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 2021.

    "Sartre's Affective Turn: Shame as Recognition in 'The Look." Philosophy Today, 65:3, Summer 2021. 

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, co-written with Cynthia Willett and Diana Tietjen Meyers. First published July 2015; updated February 2020.

    Unmute podcast, episode 51, interviewed by host Myisha Cherry:

    American Philosophical Association (APA) Women in Philosophy blog, April 23. 

    "From Existential Alterity to Ethical Reciprocity: Beauvoir's Alternative to Levinas." Continental Philosophy Review, 52:2, 2019, 171-189.

    Abrahams Melancholy, by Jacques Derrida, co-translated with Philippe Lynes, Oxford Literary Review, 39:2, 153-188.

    "Autoeroticism: Rethinking Self-Love with Derrida and Irigaray. PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, 12:1, Spring/Summer 2017, 53-70. 

    The Other (Woman): Limits of Knowledge in Beauvoirs Ethics of Reciprocity,&紳莉莽梯;The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 28:3, 380-388, 2014.
     

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D., Philosophy, Emory University

    Master of Arts, Philosophy, Emory University

    Bachelor of Arts, optima, Philosophy, Trinity College

  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    • Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good Signature Course Fellow, 2024-25
    • Wig Distinguished Professor Award, 91做厙, 2024
    • Wig Teaching Innovation Grant, 91做厙, 2021, 2022, 2023
    • Hahn Teaching with Technology Grant, 91做厙, 2021
    • Marc Sanders Foundation Philosophy in the Media Fellow in Podcasting, 2021-22
    • Piedmont TATTO Fellowship in Sustainability, Teaching, and Curriculum, Emory University, 2015
    • Arts & Sciences Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University, 2011-2016
    • Phi Beta Kappa, 2010
    • President's Fellow of Philosophy, Trinity College, 2010

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