Biography

Steven DeCaroli
Department: Philosophy and Religion
Title: Associate Professor of Philosophy, (Director of Philosophy Program) (Department Chair)
Degree: B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; M.A., Ph.D., Binghamton University-SUNY
Office: Van Meter 144
Phone: 410-337-6209
Email: sdecaroli@goucher.edu
Website: http://faculty.goucher.edu/sdecaroli/

Professor DeCaroli is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Goucher College. He specializes in both Modern and Contemporary philosophy with a particular emphasis on political thought and aesthetics. He has published articles and book chapters on Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Winckelmann and Johann Herder, among others. Professor DeCaroli has presented extensively at national and international conferences. He is the co-editor of Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life (Stanford, 2007) and is currently working on a monograph on eighteenth-century aesthetics and political sovereignty. In addition to these publications, Professor DeCaroli is co-editor of Out Sources, a book series devoted to publishing international works on politics and philosophy. Professor DeCaroli holds a Masters and Ph.D. in philosophy from Binghamton University (SUNY), as well as a second Masters degree in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin.