Faculty

Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert, Associate 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, 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: “The Revival of Frühromantik in the Anglophone World,” Philosophy Today (Spring 2005), “Borderline Philosophy?  Incompleteness, Incomprehension, and the Romantic Transformation of Philosophy,” Yearbook on German Idealism 6 (2009), “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).  Elizabeth is currently at work on a book-length study in which she argues that Alexander von Humboldt is best understood as a critic of nature. 

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