I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College and Columbia University. I work on issues in moral psychology and ethics broadly construed, overlapping with topics in social philosophy and aesthetics (especially film). In terms of figures, I work on Kant and Freud, but also have interests in and have written about James Baldwin, Stanley Cavell, W.E.B Du Bois, Iris Murdoch, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Bernard Williams. I am working on a book titled Opacity and Experience, under contract with Harvard University Press. I also write art and film criticism.
Department of Philosophy
326 Milbank Hall
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
frussell [at] barnard [.] edu
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Header image credits (some favorite films):
Still from “Tokyo Story” (Yasujirō Ozu 1953)
Still from “The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton 1955)
Still from “Medea” (Pier Paolo Pasolini 1969)
Still from “Safe” (Todd Haynes 1995)
Francey Russell 