David Ross Fryer

David Ross Fryer (born 1969) is an ethicist working in phenomenology, queer theory, Africana thought, existentialism (in particular Black Existentialism), contemporary Jewish thought, and psychoanalytic theory.[1] He completed a B.A. (honors) in Intellectual History and Religious Studies at The University of Pennsylvania, studying under Alan Kors and Stephen Dunning; doctoral research in Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh, studying under Vincent Hope; and an A.M and Ph.D. in Contemporary Religious Thought and Gender Studies at Brown University, studying under Wendell Dietrich and Elizabeth Weed. His first book, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan,[2] received positive reviews in both philosophical[3] and psychoanalytic[4] circles. His second book, Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity[5] and the work within it has both been cited by prominent academics[6][7] and received attention in the queer blogosphere.[8] He has been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Judaic Studies, both at Temple University.[1] He is a founding member of the Phenomenology Roundtable.[9] He has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University, Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University. He is currently working on a book on queer parenting.