Kristin Boyce
Associate Professor of the Practice of Philosophy
Kristin Boyce is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her primary research interests are in Aesthetics (especially philosophy of literature, dance and film), History of Early Analytic Philosophy, and Wittgenstein. Before joining the Faculty at Vanderbilt, she was an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Fellow at the Shackouls Honors College of Mississippi State University, She has also been a Resident Fellow at NYU's Center for Ballet and the Arts, an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Humanties Center, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Stanford University's Introduction to the Humanities Program. She is currently working on a book project tentatively titled "Diotima at the Ballet: The Place of Love and Conversation in Philosophy and the Arts."
Representative Publications
“The Medium (Re)viewed: Returning to an Excursis on Painting, Film and Photography,” The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Painting and Sculpture, edited by Noël Carroll and Jonathan Gilmore, 2023.
“Analytic Philosophy and the Logic of Dance,” Engagement: Philosophy and Dance, edited by Rebecca Farina and Craig Hank. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
“The Turn to Logic and the Transformation of an Ancient Quarrel,” Poetics Today Vol. 41.1 Spring 2020.
“Beyond Petipa and Before the Academy: Plato, Socrates and Alexei Ratmansky’s Serenade After Plato’s Symposium,” Midwest Series in Philosophy, vol. 43 (Spring 2020).
“Film and Fine Art: Automatism, Automata and the “Myth of Total Cinema in The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffmann,” invited contribution to The Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, edited by Noël Carroll, Laura Teresa Di Summa-Knoop, and Shawn Loht (Palgrave McMillan, 2019).
“Philosophy, Theater and Love in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and Plato’s Symposium,” Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Kristin Gjesdal (Oxford University Press, 2017).