Speaker
Sharin N Elkholy received her Doctorate in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in NYC, and her undergraduate degree from Antioch College in Yellows Springs, OH. She is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy and founding member and fellow of the Center for Critical Race Studies at The University of Houston—Downtown. Dr. Elkholy’s research interests include existentialism, phenomenology, philosophy of race and gender. Among her writings are Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling: Angst and the Finitude of Being (Continuum Press, 2008); “What’s Gender Got To Do With It? A Phenomenology of Romantic Love” (Athenäum: Jahrbuch für Romantik, 1999); “Friendship Across Differences: Heidegger and Richard Wright’s Native Son (Janus Head, 2007); and the entry “Feminism and Race” for The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.