David Ross Fryer

Who is David Ross Fryer?

David Ross Fryer is an ethicist working in phenomenology, queer theory, Africana thought, existentialism, secular Jewish thought, and psychoanalytic theory. He completed a B.A. in Intellectual History at The University of Pennsylvania, doctoral research in Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh, and an A.M and Ph.D. in Contemporary Religious Thought at Brown University. His first book, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan, received positive reviews in both philosophical and psychoanalytic circles. His second book, Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity and the work within it has both been cited by prominent academics and received attention in the queer blogosphere. He has been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Judaic Studies, both at Temple University. He is a founding member of the Phenomenology Roundtable. He currently teaches in the Program in Women's Studies at Drexel University.