Bryan A. Smyth

I'm currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Mississippi. My research deals primarily with phenomenology and Critical Theory, in particular how these traditions intersect methodologically with regard to nature and history. My first book, Merleau-Ponty’s Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy, was published in 2014 (Bloomsbury Academic). I recently completed the English translation of Merleau-Ponty’s Le monde sensible et le monde de l’expression for Northwestern University Press, and I'm working on its companion volume, Recherches sur l’usage littéraire du langage. I am also currently co-editing (with Richard Westerman) a volume of new essays on Marxism and phenomenology, provisionally entitled Marxism, Phenomenology, and the Dialectical Horizons of Critique: New Perspectives (under contract with Lexington Books), and I have other monograph projects in the works: Incarnating the Good: Rethinking Heroism as an Embodied Phenomenon, and Hyperdialectical Materialism: Nature and History in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology. I am currently President of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, I serve on the editorial board of Heroism Studies, and I'm Critical Theory Reviews Co-Editor for Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy.