Francey Russell

Bio

Francey Russell is a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in the Humanities Program at Yale for 2017–2019.  She works on moral philosophy and moral psychology, and has interests in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and Kant’s practical philosophy.  Her current projects explore how our essential finitude should shape our philosophical and practical thinking about human agency and ethics.  She is interested especially in our limited self-knowledge and our dependency with respect to others.  Much of her current work grows out of her dissertation, “Self-Opacity, Human Agency, and Ethics.”  She is working on papers on the paradox of apology, on Freud and second nature, on Kant’s concept of self-conceit, and on memorials. Francey also regularly publishes art and film criticism in venues like the Los Angeles Review of Books and Lenny Letter.