Eliza Little

I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. My work focuses on post-Kantian European philosophy and topics in the philosophy of mind.

My ongoing core research has to do with Hegel’s accounts of self-consciousness and perception, and the role of artworks (particularly works of contemporary fiction) in human life. Additionally, I am currently working on a book manuscript ("The Aesthetic Lives of Others") on Simone de Beauvoir’s aesthetics and philosophy of mind.

I am interested in supervising projects on Kant, Hegel, Beauvoir (but not Sartre), and aesthetics, broadly construed.

You can read more about my work on my website.

Current Teaching:

PH36C: Philosophy & Tragedy (Term 1)

PH9A5: Topics in 20th Century French Philosophy I (Term 2, with Andrew Huddleston and Tobias Keiling)

Recent & Forthcoming Publications:

“Hegel’s Mature Critique of Schelling.” Forthcoming in Schelling-Studien.

“Kant’s Leading Thread in Hegel’s Science of Logic.” 2025. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, April, 1–23. Final here.

“Boredom as a Propositional Attitude: Reading Alberto Moravia with Hegel.” 2024. In Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination. Ed. G. L. Hagberg. Palgrave Macmillan. Final here.

“Hegel on Architecture, Poetry, and the Sociality of Perception.” 2024. Revue internationale de philosophie, No 309(3), 119-134. Final Here

“Simone de Beauvoir’s Critical Hegelianism.” 2023. Verifiche, LII (1), pp. 131-147. Final here (via academia.edu)

“Greek Tragedy and Self-Authorship in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” 2020. In Hegel’s Political Aesthetics. Eds. Stefan Bird-Pollan and V. Marchenkov. Bloomsbury.