Carmen De Schryver received her MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2015. After spending a year at KU Leuven, she went on to do a PhD in Philosophy at Northwestern University, where she completed her graduate work in 2022. Carmen specializes in Africana Philosophy, Phenomenology and Decolonial Theory, with an emphasis on questions of comparative methodology and canon formation. Her dissertation explores the possibility of a decolonial vision of universality from a phenomenological perspective, focusing on the work of Paulin J. Hountondji, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire and Edmund Husserl.

Before joining Trinity, Carmen taught courses in decolonial philosophy and critical philosophy of race at Sarah Lawrence College. As a teacher, she promotes an expansive view of both what philosophy is and who should be considered (and, indeed, consider themselves) a philosopher. She seeks to cultivate a comfortable and hospitable classroom environment in which students feel empowered to see themselves and their peers as valuable parts of the broader philosophical conversation.  

curriculum vitae

Publications:

• “Deconstruction and Epistemic Violence”, Southern Journal of Philosophy 59/2 (2021), pp. 100-121.
• “Absolute Ideas and Empirical-Anthropological Types: Tracking Husserl’s Eurocentrism”, forthcoming in Husserl Studies.
• “Philosophical Universality in Crisis: Hountondji’s Interruption of Phenomenology” in Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges, ed. Abraham Olivier, M. John Lamola and Justin Sands (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2022). 
• “Ethnophilosophy” in Encyclopedia of Diversity, ed. Mitja Sardoc (Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming 2022).
  

Presentations:

• “‘The Crisis of the Crisis’: Deconstruction beyond Europe”, Conference Presenter, Decolonization and Post-Structuralism, Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, February 2022.
• “Universality through Dialogue: Fanon on the Relationship between the Universal and the Particular”, Conference Presenter, International Association for Dialogue Analysis, September 2021.
• “Hountondji’s Interruption of Phenomenology”, Conference Presenter, 25th Annual Philosophy Conferenceat Villanova University: Phenomenology and its Worlds, March 2021.
• “Decolonizing the Canon: Reading Strategies”, Invited Speaker, Minorities and Philosophy Chapter, Kent State University, February 2020.