Rate My Professor Timothy Flanagan

Flanagan's research centers on philosophical aesthetics, critical metaphysics, and the history of ideas, with particular attention to continental philosophy and the Baroque tradition. His monograph, Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), offers a comparative analysis of naturalism in the works of Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, drawing on Baroque aesthetics to propose paired interpretations of their philosophies. This book has received citations and contributes to discussions on metaphysics and aesthetics. Other significant publications include 'The Baroque: A Term of Art' (2023), exploring the term's application in art and philosophy; 'Standing-Out and Fitting-In: The Acoustic-Space of Extemporised Speech' (2024), a book chapter on performative identity; 'The Dictionaries in Which We Learn to Think' (2015), addressing epistemological themes in language; and his editorial role in Liminal Diasporas: Contemporary Movements of Humanity and the Environment (Routledge, 2025), including chapters like 'Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora.' Additionally, he authored 'Humanities on Demand and the Demands on the Humanities' in Studies in Philosophy and Education (2024) and contributed a review of Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2018). With 37 citations on Google Scholar, Flanagan's work impacts niche areas of philosophy. He supervises postgraduate research, such as Nola Gasmier's Masters by Research thesis 'An Artist's View: Place as a Centre of Meaning' (2025).