Matthew Waggoner, Ph.D.

Department	Philosophy & Religion
Title	Professor of Philosophy & Religion
Background	B.A., Evangel University M.A., Missouri State University Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Phone	(203) 752-8762
Email	mwaggoner@albertus.edu
Website(s)	https://msw-3f7ff7.webflow.io/
Courses	Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy Approaches to Global Justice Black Radical Thought Capitalism & Society Environmental Ethics Housing & the Right to the City Modern Art & Architecture Religion & Popular Culture Senior Humanities Seminar
Description	Dr. Matt Waggoner is a professor of Philosophy and a Ph.D. graduate of the Program in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling (Columbia University Press, 2019). His articles on cultural and critical theory have appeared in Cultural Critique, Angelaki, Telos, Constellations, New Formations, Theory and Event, Architecture Philosophy, and elsewhere. CV
Specialties	Continental Thought, Critical Theory, Aesthetics, Political Theory, Contemporary Cultural Studies, Environmental Humanities, Housing, Science and Technology Studies.
Publications	“How to See an Island: On the Art, Theory, and Politics of Islands in Césaire, Césaire, and Deleuze” in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, December 2024. “Late Landscapes and the Aesthetics of Occlusion,” in New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, January 2025. “Georges Bataille’s Critical Essays, V. 1” in Cultural Critique, Summer 2024. “Georges Bataille on Ethnographic Surrealism and The Limit of the Useful” in Religious Theory, e-supplement for the Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory, August 2024. “Critique of Architectural Reason” in Architecture Philosophy, Winter 2019.
Affiliations	American Philosophical Association, Association of Political Theory, American Academy of Religion, Reviewer, Association for Political Theory annual conference paper submissions, 2020-present, Reviewer, Global Studies Quarterly, Oxford University Press, Review Panel Member, National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Connections Implementation Grant, 2021, Review Editor, Teaching Philosophy, Review Editor, Bypass Publishing, Review Editor, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Review Editor, Oxford Handbook of World Religions, Assistant Editor, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
Research	Housing, Landscape Theory, Architecture, Cities, Surrealism, Marxism and Post-Marxism