Affiliated Faculty

2023–2024

Asaf Angermann

Asaf Angermann

Assistant Professor (Term) of Philosophy and Jewish Thought

Education: PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt

Research Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy; critical theory and the Frankfurt School; modern Jewish thought; Jewish mysticism; modern European and Jewish intellectual history; critical race theory; feminism and philosophy of gender; aesthetics and cultural studies

Humanities Courses:

  • HUM 220-50. Introduction to Jewish Cultures (AH, D2) [Fall 2023]

Office: Bingham Humanities 307
Phone: (502) 852-0455
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John Gibson

Professor of Philosophy

Education: PhD, University of Toronto

Research Interests: Aesthetics; philosophy of literature; philosophy of language; value theory

Humanities Course:

  • HUM 561-02/672-01. Philosophy of Film [Spring 2024]

Office: Bingham Humanities 313D
Phone: (502) 852-0452
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Gregory Hutcheson

Associate Professor of Spanish

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Research Interests: Gender, sexuality, and queer desire in the Spanish Middle Ages; sites of cultural and confessional negotiation in the medieval Mediterranean, with a specific focus on literary and legal texts

Humanities Courses:

  • HUM 663-01. Global Perspectives on Art & Culture [Spring 2024, with Professor Maryam Moazzen]

Office: Bingham Humanities 323
Phone: (502) 852-1635
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Jennifer Westerfeld

Associate Professor of History

Education: PhD, University of Chicago

Research Interests: Cultural and religious history of late antique Egypt; Coptic epigraphy; papyrology; appropriation and reinterpretation of pharaonic monuments by Coptic Christian communities in late antiquity

Humanities Teaching:

  • HUM 661-01. Historical Perspectives on Arts & Culture I [Fall 2023, with Professor Pamela Beattie]

Office: Gottschalk 201B
Phone: (502) 852-3756
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