I am a third-semester PhD student in philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where I work with Evan Thompson and Cat Prueitt. I study cross-cultural philosophy of mind and aesthetics, and am primarily interested in rasa theory, imagination, and emotion. A concern with the role that mental imagery plays in affect regulation, informs specific research interests in topics like dreaming, daydreaming and mind-wandering, meditative practices, phenomenology, and philosophy of literature. I study Classical Sanskrit, and work with philosophical source materials associated with Kashmir Trika Śaivism and Indian Buddhism. I am also a publishing…
I am a third-semester PhD student in philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where I work with Evan Thompson and Cat Prueitt. I study cross-cultural philosophy of mind and aesthetics, and am primarily interested in rasa theory, imagination, and emotion. A concern with the role that mental imagery plays in affect regulation, informs specific research interests in topics like dreaming, daydreaming and mind-wandering, meditative practices, phenomenology, and philosophy of literature. I study Classical Sanskrit, and work with philosophical source materials associated with Kashmir Trika Śaivism and Indian Buddhism. I am also a publishing poet, and hold an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia. As a Poe-Faulkner Fellow there, I taught undergraduate poetry workshops and composition courses, and served as Editor-in-Chief for the literary magazine Meridian. I am a stage-III colon cancer survivor, which has informed my interest in the philosophy of death, dying, and palliative care, and a recent concern with the emotion of disgust in particular.
Personal page: emilylawsonphilosophy.com
