Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Ellie Anderson specializes in continental European philosophy, with emphasis on 20th-century French philosophy and feminist theory. Her research focuses on relational theories of selfhood, the philosophy of love, and sexual ethics. Her article “Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships Between Women and Men” was one of Hypatia‘s top-read articles in 2023 and 2024, and her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Slate and more. She is currently completing a monograph on the phenomenology of selfhood and a series of articles on sexual ethics and love, as well as preparing a book critically analyzing self-care and self-objectification in contemporary life.