Rate My Professor Javier Carreño

Dr. Javier Carreño serves as Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Chair of the Austria Program at Franciscan University of Steubenville, positions he has held since 2021 and 2017, respectively, teaching at the study abroad campus in Gaming, Austria, since 2011. Born and raised in Colombia and a Belgian citizen since 2008, he received a B.A. in Philosophy and English from the University of Dallas in 2000, an M.A. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2003 (summa cum laude), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the same institution in 2010. His dissertation, “The Time of Fiction: Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology of Phantasy,” was completed at the Husserl Archives under the supervision of Rudolf Bernet.

Carreño’s academic interests center on phenomenology, particularly Husserl’s phenomenology of imagination, aesthetics, and the temporality of images and depictions, alongside explorations in the philosophy of religion, including affectivity, passion in Kierkegaard, and religious experience in photography. His key peer-reviewed publications include “Husserl and Dufrenne on the Temporalization of Image Space” (Anuario Filosófico, 2018), “Husserl at the Mutoscope: A Phenomenological Regard at the Temporality of Static and Moving Images” (Yearbook of Moving Image Studies, 2017), “Religious Experience and Photography: The Phenomenology of Photography as Revelatory of the Religious Play of Imagination” (Open Theology, 2017), “The Many Senses of Imagination and the Manifestation of Fiction: A View From Husserl’s Phenomenology of Phantasy” (Husserl Studies, 2012), and “On the Temporality of Images according to Husserl” (The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 2008). Recent contributions include book reviews of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s works (New Blackfriars, 2021, 2024). He is co-editing Phenomenology of Christian Imagination (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024) and has forthcoming chapters. Carreño has delivered presentations at conferences including “Imagining Christianity: A Phenomenological Discussion” (2019, co-organizer) and “Phenomenology of Religious Experience” (2016). He received a Mandatum from Bishop Klaus Küng (2014) and KU Leuven teaching certification (2008-2009).