Ryan S. Bingham

Ryan S. Bingham is a Teaching Fellow in the Divinity School and the College at the University of Chicago. His research concerns the critique of metaphysics in modern continental philosophy from Kant to Derrida, both in its historical possibility and in its implications for contemporary philosophy of religion and social and political philosophy. He is a specialist in the work of Jacques Derrida whose research and teaching span historical and contemporary continental philosophy, history of philosophy and theology, philosophy of religion, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, critical theory, and modern comparative literature. He is currently editing a collection of several of Derrida’s student papers, forthcoming with Seuil. He is also developing a book manuscript based on his dissertation, “A Materialism without Substance: Jacques Derrida and Questions of Responsibility at the Closure of Metaphysics.” He received his Ph.D. in Divinity from the University of Chicago in 2026. His work has been published in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy and The Journal of Religion.