- Associate Professor, Advisor
- Philosophy: Swan 149
- Email: james_haile@uri.edu
- Office Location: Dept of Philosophy
Swan Hall
Kingston, RI 02881
Biography
Dr. Haile’s research and teaching interests intersect recent Continental philosophy (especially Aesthetics), Philosophy and/of Literature, Philosophy of Place, Africana Philosophy, and Philosophy and/of Race. Specifically, he is interested in the intersection of 20th century American and African America Literature and Existentialism. James was named the URI Philosophy Ebbs Fellow for 2024-2026, and he was a recipient of the 2022 College of Arts and Sciences Research Excellence Award.
Research
Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison (esp their writings on place and nature), Jean-Paul Sartre (esp his writings on jazz), James Baldwin (esp his writings on language and religion), black aesthetics (esp contemporary genre aesthetics of hip hop).
Education
- Ph.D. Duquesne University, 2014
- M.A. University of Memphis, 2008
- B.A. Morehouse College, 2002
Selected Publications
Philosophical Meditations on Richard Wright (Lexington Press)
Thinking through Baldwin, edited collection (forthcoming)
“Afro-‘American’ Writing: Motifs of Place” (published in Philosophizing the Americas: An Inter-American Discourse (Fordham University Press)
Richard Wright: The ‘Nature’ of Politics, The ‘Politics’ of Nature (published in A Political Companion to Richard Wright, University of Kentucky Press)