Eyo Ewara, PhD
Assistant Professor
Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He joined the faculty at 量子资源 in Fall 2020 after serving as Assistant Professor in the department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Texas at San Antonio from 2019-2020. His research areas include 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Critical Philosophies of Race, and LGBTQ and Queer Theories. His current research projects explore the ethical and ontological assumptions behind forms of anti-racism; how conceptions of "history repeating itself" operate in accounts of race, racism, and anti-racism; and the role of opacity in ethical and political thought. His work involves the thought of Saidiya Hartman, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Martin Heidegger, Judith Butler, and Lee Edelman.
Education
BA (Hons) The University of King's College
MA The Pennsylvania State University
PhD The Pennsylvania State University
Publications/Research Listings
Selected Publications:
"On COVID and Racism as "Twin Pandemics": Foucault, Anti-Racism, and Inoculation." Foucault Studies 37 (2025): 35-54.
"'I Understand that I Will Never Understand': White Ignorance, Anti-Racism, and the Right to Opacity." Critical Philosophy of Race 12, no. 2 (2024): 292-314.
"Anti-Racism and Releasement: Anti-Blackness, Calculation, and the Provocation of Gelassenheit." Philosophy Today 67, no. 4 (2023): 749-771.
"For Estrangement: Queerness, Blackness, and Unintelligibility." Philosophy Compass 18, no. 3 (2023).
"Idle Talk and Anti-Racism: On Critical Phenomenology, Language, and Racial Justice." Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology 5, no. 4 (2023): 35-50.
"Attempting Redress: Fungibility, Ethics, and Redressive Practice in the Work of Saidiya Hartman." Theory & Event 25, no. 2 (2022): 364-391.
‘The Psychic Life of Horror: Abjection and Racialization in Butler’s Thought,’ in Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler. Edited by Annemie Halsema. Katja Kwastek, Roel van den Oever. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
“Fanon’s Body: Judith Butler’s Reading of the Historico-Racial Schema,” Critical Philosophy of Race 8, no. 1-2 (2020): 265-291.