Tanya Loughead

Dr. Tanya Loughead’s expertise is in the field of Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Her areas of specialization include: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Critical University Studies, and Psychoanalysis.  Also: History of Philosophy, Feminism, Animal Ethics, and Queer Theory.  Loughead has published scholarship on the works of Sara Ahmed, Maurice Blanchot, Angela Davis, Emmanuel Levinas, Herbert Marcuse, and Simone Weil, amongst others. Her research blends the methodology of phenomenology with insights from critical theory to analyze the ideas that structure our world.

Dr. Loughead regularly teaches courses such as “Justice”  and “Gender & Philosophy” along with “Continental Philosophy” and “Psychoanalysis & Philosophy.” She has been advisor to thesis students on the themes of: Alienation & Ideology, Animal Rights, Liberation & Individualism, Body Horror Film & Psychoanalysis, Feminism in the Non-Western World, Blackness in America, and on philosophers such as Althusser, Beauvoir, Butler, Davis, Fisher, Hegel, and Mohanty.  

Dr. Loughead is active in the American Association of University Professors and in 2023 was chosen to be the New York state AAUP Communication Director, which involves work on media relations, press releases and the NY state legislative agenda.  

Awards

• College of Arts and Sciences Service Award
• Dr. I Joan Lorch Award for Women & Gender Studies 
• Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Honor Society Member
• Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society Member
• Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society Member

Publications

Books

• Politics of Maturing, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. Learn More
• Critical University: Moving Higher Education Forward, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Learn More

Selected Recent Articles

• “Justice informatics, justice for us all: Liberation from techno-ideology,” by T. Loughead and Z. Tacheva. In Ramasubramanian, S, & Banjo, O. O. (Eds.), International Handbook of Media & Social Justice. Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2024).
•  “Futures of liberation: Of philosophy and the world,” by T. Loughead and Z. Tacheva.  In Absher, B. (Ed.), Philosophical Interventions in Neoliberal Higher Education. Lexington Books (forthcoming, 2024)
• “Kristeva on exile, the digital, and the one-dimensional universe,” by T. Loughead and Z. Tacheva. In Proceedings of the 2022 Kristeva Circle Meeting (forthcoming, 2023)
• “Austerity is not a Jesuit Value,” by G. Canavan, N, Ellstrand, S. Harshner, S. Iyer, M. Levantovskaya, T. Loughead, D. Taylor and P.Venugopal.  In Academe, Fall 2021, Vol 107,  No. 4. 
• "Organizing Adjuncts and Citizenship within the Academy,”  by S. Donaghue-Johnston and T. Loughead. In Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.