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Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • PhD, 2014     Johns Hopkins University, The Humanities Center

  • MA, 2011      Johns Hopkins University, Philosophy

  • BA, 2008       University of California Berkeley, Rhetoric and Philosophy

Professional Appointments

  • 2022 -              Amazon, Senior User Researcher at Prime Video 

  • 2019 - 22       Facebook, Senior User Researcher 

  • 2017-19         Design Science, User Researcher

  • 2015-17         Wesleyan University, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow

  • 2014-15         Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Anthropology

Books

  • “Partners in Conversation," in Anthropology of AI, eds. Angela K. VandenBroek, Matt Artz, and Lora Koycheva (Routledge: New York and London, 2025), page forthcoming.

  • "Qu’est-ce que la métaphysique positive?" in La métaphysique et les sciences au XIXe siècle en France, eds. Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Samuel Lézé (Brill: Leiden, NL, 2025), 489-509.

  • “Maine de Biran and Neurology,” in Towards a New Anthropology of the Embodied Mind: Maine de Biran’s Physio-Spiritualism from 1800 to the 21st Century, ed. Manfred Milz (Brill: Leiden, NL), 69-84.

  • Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France (University of Chicago Press, 2020).

Articles

Books

Book Reviews

  • “Dana Simmons. Vital Minimum: Need, Science & Politics in Modern France.” H-France Reviews (Jul. 2016)

  • “From the Globe to the Brain and Back. Lynn Hunt, Writing History in the Global Era.” Los Angeles Review of Books. (Oct. 2015)

  • “Warren Breckman. Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 129, no. 5 (Dec. 2014)

  • “Andrew Jewett. Science, Democracy, and the American University,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 128, no. 5 (Dec. 2013)

  • “Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. American Nietzsche. A History of an Icon and His Ideas,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 127, no. 5 (Dec. 2012): 1263-67

  • “Peter Gordon. Continental Divide. Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 126, no. 5 (Dec. 2011): 1140-44

  • “Stefanos Geroulanos, An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 125, no. 5 (Dec. 2010): 1164-67

  • “Judith Butler. Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 124, no. 5 (Dec. 2009): 1233-36

© 2025 by Larry S. McGrath

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