Julia Sushytska

Resident Associate Professor

Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

Occidental College

Specialization

Contemporary European Philosophy, Eastern European Literature and Philosophy

Languages

English, French—fluent, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish—native speaker, Ancient Greek—reading

2008	Stony Brook University (SUNY, Stony Brook)	Ph.D., Philosophy
2005	Stony Brook University (SUNY, Stony Brook)	M.A., Philosophy
Fall 2004/2005	Université Paris X
2001	John Carroll University	B.A., Philosophy

2026	Both Sides Face East: Borders De Todos Lados, co-edited with Christian Fernandez Huerta and Alisa Slaughter, Academic Studies Press, forthcoming
2025	Both Sides Face East: Durable Words, co-edited with Alisa Slaughter and ariel rosé, Academic Studies Press. https://www.academicstudiespress.com/9798897830299/
2020	A Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili, co-edited with Alisa Slaughter, Ibidem Press, https://cup.columbia.edu/book/a-spy-for-an-unknown-country/9783838214597/
2014	Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics, co-edited with Alain Beaulieu and Edward Kazarian, Lexington Books

2025	“Empty Forms, Infinite Becoming: Freedom to Be Ordinary,” Both Sides Face East: Durable Words, co-edited with Alisa Slaughter and ariel rosé, Academic Studies Press
2022	“Gathering the In-Between: Merab Mamardashvili’s Way Through Proust,” co-authored with Alisa Slaughter, Rethinking Mamardashvili: Philosophical Perspectives, Analytical Insights, ed. by Vladimer Luarsabishvili, Brill Publishers
2020	“Introduction,” co-authored with Alisa Slaughter, A Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili, ed. by Alisa Slaughter and Julia Sushytska, Ibidem Press
2014	“The Obscure Metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze,” in Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics, ed. by Alain Beaulieu, Edward Kazarian, Julia Sushytska, Lexington Books
2013	“Plato, a Deleuzian: On the Indiscernibility of the Philosopher in Plato’s Sophist”
Selections from the Prometheus Trust Conferences 2006-2010, ed. by Linda H. Woodward, Prometheus Trust Publications
2012	“What Is Eastern Europe? A Philosophical Approach,” Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe, ed. by Costica Bradatan, Routledge University Press
2011	“Eastern European Self: Going Beyond the Several,” Inventing Europe, ed. by Katharina Kunter, Wehrhahn Verlag

2024	“Becoming Homeless in Language: On Ontological Terrorism.” Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, vol. III, no. II (2024): 91-103. https://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/JU/article/view/2688/2284
2024	"RUTA: A New Kind of Compass Rose,” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2414632
2022	“The Illusion of a Crossroads: Parmenides, Arendt, Mamardashvili and the Space for Truth.” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 6, no. 4 (2022): 21-31. https://doi.org/10.14394/eidos.jpc.2022.0032
2019	“Metics and the Art of Playing with Contradictions,” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society,
https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2019.1670447
2017	“Internal Strangers and Democracy,” Progressive Democracy, 31 (May-July 2017)
2015	“Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia: A Journey to the Home that Never Was,” Journal of Aesthetic Education 49, no. 1 (Spring 2015)
2014	“Beyond Ousiodic Ontology: Reflections on John McCumber’s On Philosophy: Notes from a Crisis,”
Philosophy Today 58, no. 4 (Fall 2014)
2012	“On the non-Rivalry between Poetry and Philosophy: Plato’s Republic, Reconsidered”
Mosaic, special issue “Between Poetry and Philosophy” 45, no. 1 (March 2012)
2010	“What Is Eastern Europe? A Philosophical Approach,” Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, special issue “Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe” 15, no. 3 (December 2010)

Reviewer for the European Science Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Brill Academic Publishers