Portrait of Dr. Amy Marie Pommerening

Dr. Amy Marie Pommerening

  • Assoc Professor of Instruction at Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts

Biography

I attended an all-women's college for my undergraduate degree and double majored in English and Philosophy. After graduating with my MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, I attended the Philosophy & Literature PhD program at Purdue University. Under the guidance of Dr. Leonard Harris, I researched and wrote my dissertation on the topic of prison abolition, time, and liberation.

Research Interests

Africana and Black Philosophy
Dr. Angela Davis/Prison Abolition
Giorgio Agamben
Continental Philosophy
Ancient Indian Philosophy & Sanskrit
Philosophy and Poetry

Teaching Interests

PHIL 4388: Philosophy and Prison(s)
PHIL 4388: Nihilism in Philosophy (and Rick & Morty)
PHIL 4373: Africana Philosophy
PHIL 1320: Ethics ​and Society