Susan L. Feagin

Susan L. Feagin (born 11 July 1948) is a philosopher of art, working in the analytic tradition. She is a Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics and Visiting Research Professor (Retired) in the Department of Philosophy at Temple University.^[1][2] She is known primarily for her work on the role of emotions in art.

Biography

Feagin received a BA degree in Philosophy from Florida State University. She then completed both an MA and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, where she worked under the supervision of Donald W. Crawford.^[3]

Before coming to Temple, she held teaching and research positions at the University of Wisconsin and University of Missouri-Kansas City. From 2003 to 2013 she was the Editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.^[2] In 2016, she gave the Richard Wollheim Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the British Society of Aesthetics at the University of Oxford.^[4]

Select publications

• “The Pleasures of Tragedy”, American Philosophical Quarterly 20(1):95-104, 1983
• Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation, Cornell University Press, 1996
• Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 1997 (co-editor with Patrick Maynard)
• Global Theories of the Arts and Aesthetics, Blackwell, 2007 (editor)

External links

• Susan Feagin's departmental webpage
• VIDEO: Susan Feagin, Artistic Functionality

References