Hannah Bacon

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

117 Coates Hall

225–578–2380

hrbacon@lsu.edu

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Professor Bacon studies contemporary and twentieth-century continental philosophy with special interest in the intersections of social, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law and incarceration, and critical phenomenology of race, gender, and embodiment. Before joining the philosophy faculty at LSU, Professor Bacon was the Ferraro Melon Fellow in Prison Higher Education and a Visiting Professor of Public Philosophy at Marymount Manhattan College. In addition to having four years of experience teaching and doing advocacy in prisons, Professor Bacon is a certified birth and death doula.

B.A. in Philosophy, Earlham College (2007)

M.A. in Philosophy, The New School (2014)

Ph.D. in Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook (2020) 

PHIL 2006 Philosophy of Life, Death, & Dying

PHIL 2025: Bioethics

PHIL 3001: Existentialism

PHIL 3062: Problems in Political Philosophy

PHIL 4945: Problems in Political Philosophy

PHIL 4947: Topics in Philosophy of Law

PHIL 4948: Phenomenology

Recipient of the Provost’s Fund for Innovation in Research, Co-PI, LSU (2024)

Ferraro Mellon Fellow in Prison Education and Public Philosophy Visiting Faculty Member at Marymount Manhattan College (2020-2022)

Nominated for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching (2018)

Recipient of Stony Brook Teaching Assistantship (2014-2016)

Recipient of the New School Dean's Scholarship (2010)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters

"The Intersubjective Responsibility of Durational Trauma: Contributions of Bergson and Levinas to the Philosophy of Trauma," Continental Philosophy Review 55 (2021): 159–75

"Perverse Witness: The Role of Photography and Shock Compulsion in Contemporary Trauma Discourse,"  in The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves, ed. Ana Falcato and Sara Graça da Silva (Springer, 2020), 101–21

 

Book Reviews

Review of Richard I. Sugarman, Levinas and the Torah: A Phenomenological Approach (SUNY Press, 2019) in Phenomenological Reviews (26 January 2020)