People
Hannah Bacon
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies
Biography
Hannah Bacon holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2020 and earned a Master's Degree in Philosophy from The New School in 2014 and a B.A. from Earlham College. Before joining the philosophy faculty at LSU, Hannah Bacon was the Ferraro Melon Fellow in Prison Higher Education and a Visiting Professor of Public Philosophy at Marymount Manhattan College. Additionally, Dr. Bacon has four years of experience teaching and doing advocacy in prisons and is a certified birth and death doula.
Areas of Interest
Professor Bacon's specialization is at the intersection of social and political philosophy and ethics, philosophy of law & incarceration, and critical phenomenology of race, gender, and embodiment. This research draws on contemporary and 20th-century Continental philosophy.
Selected Publications
Selected Articles/Book Chapters:
- "The Intersubjective Responsibility of Durational Trauma: Contributions of Bergson and Levinas to the Philosophy of Trauma," Continental Philosophy Review, 2021.
- "Perverse Witness: The Role of Photography and Shock Compulsion in Contemporary Trauma Discourse." Chapter in The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves. Springer, 2020
Review Articles
- 2020 Book Review - Levinas and the Torah: A Phenomenological Approach "Phenomenological Reviews"
Reviews/Honors Received
- Nominated by Philosophy Department for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching (2018)
- Received New School Dean's Scholarship (2010)
- Received Capstone Honors, Departmental and College Honors (2007)
Grants/Fellowships Received
- Ferraro Mellon Fellow in Prison Education and Public Philosophy Visiting Faculty Member at Marymount Manhattan College (2020 - 2022)
- Stony Brook Teaching Assistantship (2014 - 2016)