David Ross Fryer is an American ethicist and writer working in phenomenology, queer theory, Africana thought, existentialism (in particular Black Existentialism), contemporary Jewish thought, and psychoanalytic theory. [1]
Fryer completed a B.A. (honors) in Intellectual History and Religious Studies at The University of Pennsylvania, studying under Alan Kors and Stephen Dunning; doctoral research in Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh, studying under Vincent Hope; and an A.M and Ph.D. in Contemporary Religious Thought and Gender Studies at Brown University, studying under Wendell Dietrich and Elizabeth Weed.
Fryer's first book, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan, [2] received positive reviews in both philosophical [3] and psychoanalytic [4] circles. His second book, Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity [5] and the work within it has both been cited by prominent academics [6] [7] and received attention in the queer blogosphere. [8] He has been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Judaic Studies, both at Temple University. [1] He is a founding member of the Phenomenology Roundtable. [9] He has taught at institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University. Since 2021 he has been recovering from a heart transplant.
David Ross Fryer is an American ethicist and writer working in phenomenology, queer theory, Africana thought, existentialism (in particular Black Existentialism), contemporary Jewish thought, and psychoanalytic theory. [1]
Fryer completed a B.A. (honors) in Intellectual History and Religious Studies at The University of Pennsylvania, studying under Alan Kors and Stephen Dunning; doctoral research in Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh, studying under Vincent Hope; and an A.M and Ph.D. in Contemporary Religious Thought and Gender Studies at Brown University, studying under Wendell Dietrich and Elizabeth Weed.
Fryer's first book, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan, [2] received positive reviews in both philosophical [3] and psychoanalytic [4] circles. His second book, Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity [5] and the work within it has both been cited by prominent academics [6] [7] and received attention in the queer blogosphere. [8] He has been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Judaic Studies, both at Temple University. [1] He is a founding member of the Phenomenology Roundtable. [9] He has taught at institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University. Since 2021 he has been recovering from a heart transplant.