Anne O’Byrne

Anne O’Byrne is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook University. Her field of research is 20th century and contemporary European philosophy. From her dissertation, “Who are we?”: Plurality and the Questioning of Philosophy, to her present project of natality (the existential condition of having been born) and finitude, her work has been at the intersection of ontology and politics. In her published articles she investigates questions that arise around embodiment, gender, labor, and pedagogy. O’Byrne also maintains an interest in Irish Studies and has written philosophical work concerning the functioning of sovereignty in Northern Ireland and the inheritance of the Irish language. At Stony Brook and while on faculty at Hofstra University (1999-2007) she has taught courses in feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, philosophy of art, philosophy and the Holocaust, modernity and post-modernity, existentialism, phenomenology, and Nietzsche.