IDSVA Core Faculty

Our International core faculty teach seminars, direct independent studies and dissertations, and serve as student advisors. While the librarian serves on the core faculty, she does so as a part-time research advisor and also provides mini-seminars introducing students to IDSVA's virtual library.

Howard Caygill

Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Visual Culture

History of Philosophy, Planetary Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Madness, Philosophies of Resistance, Philosophy and Literature

Dejan Lukić

Assistant Professor of Philosophical Anthropology

Crossovers between art, science, and religion. More specifically, philosophical and anthropological insights from: geo-philosophy, vital materialism, radical empiricism, theories of the avant-garde, and indigenous ontologies

Silvia Mazzini

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Theatre and Political Aesthetics / Chair of Certificate Programs

Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Poverty, Cultural Studies, Theatre Studies, Participatory Art

Simonetta Moro

President / Professor of Art, Philosophy, and Visual Studies

Theory and practice of the visual arts; drawing, painting; Continental philosophy and aesthetics; cartography, mapping, psychogeography, and urban representation; art history; curatorial practices; interdisciplinary approaches to art and culture

Erin Perfect

Library Science, Photography, Illustration, Design

George Smith

Founder and President Emeritus / Edgar E. Coons, Jr., Professor of New Philosophy

Philosophy, critical theory, literary studies, psychoanalytic theory, visual and cultural studies, gender studies, interdisciplinary studies, aesthetics, science and technology