Emily FitzGerald

Emily FitzGerald is an adjunct instructor in the Philosophy and Critical Thought department at Purchase College while completing her PhD in philosophy of religion at Columbia University. She will soon assume the role of Assistant Professor of Humanities at Utah Tech University. FitzGerald holds a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Asian Studies from Purchase College (2010). Her research focuses on embodied imagination, non-duality, and the intersection of martial arts with Buddhist philosophy, as explored in her dissertation, “Empty Hands: Embodied Imagination in Non-Duality.”

• Education: BA Philosophy (Purchase College, 2010), MA in Philosophy (pending confirmation from text), PhD Candidate (Columbia University)

Her work emphasizes material reality’s role in meaning-making, influenced by phenomenology and deconstruction. She employs unconventional methods, such as hand-binding her master’s thesis to demonstrate the physical-intellectual connection. Post-pandemic, she intensified her focus on embodiment and materiality in thought processes.

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