Dr. Perry Zurn, PhD
Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy, American University
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@perryzurn
How does change happen? How does it happen in our minds, in our bodies, between people and institutions? My work focuses on forces and histories of change. While I write on a variety of subjects, the bulk of my work analyzes curiosity, political resistance, and trans life as material-discursive locations of transformation. I am a multi-disciplinary and multi-modal thinker, relying chiefly on philosophical and theoretical methods, interdisciplinary collaborations, archival work, and community-engagement.
News
(2024) How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University is available for preorder!
(2024) Release of Trans Philosophy!
(2022) Release of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection!
(2021) “Intolerable,” New Books Network podcast interview
(2021) Release of Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980!
(2021) Release of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry!
(2021) “Curiosity and Power,” New Books Network podcast interview
(2020) Release of Curiosity Studies!
(2020) “Curiosity Studies,” Choose to be Curious podcast episode
“Can our dreams ever blur the intransigent lines that draw the shape that shuts us in?”