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Lucilla Pan

Areas of Specialization

  • 19th Century Continental Philosophy
  • Ethics

Areas of Competence

  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Race
  • Business Ethics
  • Existentialism

Contact

Contact me regarding publication and teaching opportunities

Employment

2023 - Present

Associate Director of Bard NYC

Bard College
2020 – 2023

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Assistant Director of the First Year Program

Manhattanville College

Education

Emory University (Atlanta, GA)

2020

Philosophy, PhD

Dissertation Title: The Concept of Freedom in Kierkegaard’s Early Writings, Dissertation Advisor: Thomas Flynn
2017

M.A., Philosophy

Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)

2014

B.A., Philosophy, cum laude

Teaching Experience

Instructor

Atlas Compass, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Contemporary Philosophy, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Contemporary Issues in Ethics, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Ethics, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

First Year Seminar: Principles vs. Prejudices, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Fundamentals of Philosophy, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Human Values, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Introduction to Aesthetics, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Law, Rights, and Morality, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Nietzsche/Kierkegaard, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Social and Political Philosophy, undergraduate course

Manhattanville College

Graduate Instructor

Existentialism & European Philosophy, undergraduate course

Emory University

Introduction to Business Ethics, summer intensive course

Emory University

Introduction to Business Ethics, undergraduate course

Emory University

Philosophy of Race and Racism, undergraduate course

Emory University

Co-Leader, Graduate Seminars

Kierkegaard: the Pseudonymous Authorship and the Up-building Discourses

Emory University

Kierkegaard and the Pseudonymous Authorship

Emory University

Publications

May 2023

“Fantuan Discourse” in Taiwaneseamerican.org (personal essay, guest contributor)

Nov 2022

“Abraham Against the Political: Kierkegaard on Nationalism and Duty in Svensk Teologisk Kvaralskrift (peer-reviewed, academic journal)

Sep 2022

“Cannibalism and the Eucharist: the Ethics of Eating the Human and the Divine” in Sophia (peer-reviewed, academic journal)

Fellowships & Research

2022

Summer Fellow

Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College
2019

Dean’s Teaching Fellowship

Emory University
2018

Guest Researcher

Soren Kierkegaard Center, University of Copenhagen
2015

Graduate Fellow

Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College

Conference Presentations

2021

“Spiritual Cannibalism: the Ethics of the Eucharist”

11th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy (International Academic Forum)
2016

“Hidden Grace: Salvation in Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety”

Kierkegaard, Augustine, and the Catholic Tradition (Villanova University)
2015

“The Dilemma of the Sacrifice: Abraham’s Understanding of the Divine Command”

The Redemption of Feeling (Queens College)
2019

Session Chair for Colloquium: Aesthetics 1

American Philosophy Association, Eastern Division Meeting

Service

2022 –

Secretary to the Faculty

Manhattanville College
2021 –

Interdisciplinary Council

Manhattanville College
Spring 2021

Criminal Justice Search Committee

Manhattanville College
2021 –

Academic Integrity Committee

Manhattanville College

Language

Danish

Speaking and Reading Competence

Latin

Advanced Reading Competence

French

Speaking and Reading Competence

Attic Greek

Reading Competence

German

Reading Competence

Chinese

Some Speaking