Gerad Gentry

About

PROFESSIONAL: Gerad Gentry is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Philosophy of Law at Lewis University in Chicago and a Visiting Associate in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. Previously, he was a Bilinski Fellow and Research Visitor (VAR) in the philosophy department at Yale University, and a Fulbright doctoral research visitor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Universität Potsdam.

AOS: He specializes in German Idealism and Romanticism, particularly Kant and Hegel, with a thematic sub-focus on conceptions of purposiveness, epistemic necessity, normativity, and aesthetic formation. These specialties are driven by reflections on human formation and the growth of self-consciousness through diverse methodological forms.

WORK: He is the editor of the forthcoming Kantian Legacies in German Idealism for the Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Routledge), and author of several articles on Kant and Hegel, as well as co-editor of the Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism, (2019). He serves as president of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism. Other work includes serving as editor for (1) the Yale Law School peer-review journal: Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (2017-18), (2) SGIR Review, a peer-reviewed publisher in German Idealism and Romanticism (2017-present), (3) Evental Aesthetics (2017-present), a peer-reviewed journal of aesthetics, and (4) reviewer/referee for the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

PERSONAL: I love spending time with my spouse, our kids, particularly out in nature as well as experiencing diverse cultures and coming to new places globally. I have lived and researched six years in four continents beyond North America. My activities include sprint-triathlons, tennis, soccer, pottery, photography, sculpting, and cross-country skiing. I love literature, from the novels of Dostoevsky to the poems of T.S. Eliot; from the short stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to the epic myths of J.R.R. Tolkien.