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Francey Russell is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia University, since 2019. Her research spans moral psychology, ethics, and aesthetics, with a focus on Kant and Freud. She is currently writing a book on self-opacity and its implications for agency and moral psychology, alongside a project examining cinematic aesthetics in genre films.
- BA, University of Toronto
- MA, New School for Social Research
- PhD, University of Chicago
Her scholarly work often intersects with social philosophy, exploring how institutional and historical structures shape ethical thought. Recent publications address themes of self-opacity, shame, and cinematic representation, linking Kantian and Freudian frameworks to contemporary media analysis. Russell also engages in cultural criticism for outlets like the Los Angeles Review of Books and Boston Review, emphasizing film's unique capacity to depict self-opacity through close-ups and editing techniques.
Russell's academic career includes a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University in philosophy and the humanities. She integrates feminist perspectives into her work, critiquing the lack of diversity in traditional philosophy canons. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges continental and analytic philosophy, particularly in social epistemology and film studies.
