Rate My Professor Timothy Flanagan

Timothy Flanagan, known professionally as Tim Flanagan, serves as a Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. He earned his PhD from the University of Dundee's Department of Philosophy in Scotland, supported by the UK's Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme. Prior to joining Murdoch University, Flanagan held an academic position at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle Campus, where he contributed to philosophical scholarship as evidenced by his 2015 publication. At Murdoch, he is actively involved in the Philosophy Discipline, hosting the Murdoch Philosophy Research Seminars in collaboration with colleagues and serving as the university's Government/Institutional Representative for the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.

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).