David Ross Fryer

David Ross Fryer (born 1969) is an ethicist working in phenomenology, queer theory, Africana thought, existentialism (in particular Black Existentialism), contemporary Jewish thought, and psychoanalytic theory. He completed a B.A. (honors) in Intellectual History at The University of Pennsylvania, studying under Alan Kors; doctoral research in Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh, studying under Vincent Hope; and an A.M and Ph.D. in Contemporary Religious Thought at Brown University, studying under Wendell Dietrich. His first book, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan, received positive reviews in both philosophical and psychoanalytic circles. His second book, Thinking Queerly: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity and the work within it has both been cited by prominent academics and received attention in the queer blogosphere. He has been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Judaic Studies, both at Temple University. He is a founding member of the Phenomenology Roundtable. He has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University, Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University. He is currently an independent scholar and is working on a book on queer parenting.