Faculty

Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert, Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo  

Elizabeth was educated at The State University of New York at Buffalo and at the Eberhard-Karls Universität in Tübingen.  She works on aesthetics, German Idealism/Romanticism and Latin American Philosophy.  Before coming to DePaul, Elizabeth taught at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela. She has held fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  She is the author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy (SUNY, 2007). She is co-editor (with Arleen Salles) of The Role of History in Latin American Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives (SUNY Press, 2005) and with Jorge Gracia of Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: the human condition, values, and the search for philosophical identity (Prometheus, 2004), and with Bärbel Frischmann of The New Light of German Romanticism (Schöningh Verlag, 2008). She is translator of Manfred Frank’s, The Philosophical Foundations of Early-German Romanticism (SUNY, 2004).  Recent articles include: “A Great Vanishing Act?  The Latin American Philosophical Tradition and How Ariel and Caliban Helped Save It from Oblivion,” CR: The New Centennial Review (2008); “Borderline Philosophy?  Incompleteness, Incomprehension, and the Romantic Transformation of Philosophy,” Yearbook on German Idealism 6 (2009, and “The Quest for the Seeds of Eternal Growth: Goethe and Humboldt’s Presentation of Nature,” in Goethe and German Idealism, special volume of the Goethe Yearbook, edited by Elizabeth Millán and John Smith (forthcoming, 2010).  Elizabeth is currently finishing book-length study in which she argues that Alexander von Humboldt is best understood as a romantic critic of nature.  She is also co-editing (with Hugo Moreno) a special issue of Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, an issue that will focus on Latin American Aesthetic Thought.

Office: 2352 N. Clifton, Suite 150, Office 8
Telephone: 773.325.1145
E-mail: emillan@rocketmail.com

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