Degrees:
Ph.D., Northwestern Univ.
M.Sc., London School of Economics
B.A., Univ. of Warwick
Carmen De Schryver received her MSc in Political Theory from LSE and her PhD in Philosophy from Northwestern University. She specializes in Africana Philosophy and Phenomenology with an emphasis on questions of comparative methodology and canon formation. Her current book project, Phenomenology Beyond Eurocentrism, charts Paulin J. Hountondji's uptake and transformation of the Husserlian idea of philosophy as rigorous science. As a teacher, Prof. De Schryver 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 hospitable classroom environment in which students are empowered to see themselves and their peers as valuable parts of the broader philosophical conversation.
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Africana Philosophy
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Phenomenology
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Decolonial Theory
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Publications:
- “Why Hountondji in Europe: Meta-Philosophical Reflections,” forthcoming in Arumaruka: The Journal of Conversational Thinking.
- “The Giving Birth of a World: Fanon, Husserl and the Imagination,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 62/1 (2024), 24-44
- “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, 2023).
- “Deconstruction and Epistemic Violence,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 59/2 (2021), 100-121.
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- Global Impacts Graduate Fellow, Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University, 2020-2021
- Research Assistant for the Grant Andrew W. Mellon Critical Theory in the Global South, (award # 41 600 618), Northwestern University, 2018-2022
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