Dr. Beth McManus

Honors Faculty Fellow

Location: Irish A Hall, Room 218
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Elizabeth McManus earned her Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of Virginia in religious studies. Before coming to ASU, she taught at the University of Virginia, James Madison University, and Randolph-Macon College. Her graduate research focused on the relationship between literature and philosophical ethics. Her doctoral work won the Edgar Shannon Award for the outstanding dissertation in Graduate Arts & Science at the University of Virginia in 1999-2000. Dr McManus specializes in philosophy of religion, ethics, and Continental thought.

Dr McManus’ research interests include phenomenology and intersubjective ethics of relation. She has just completed an article on George Eliot, Edmund Husserl, and Paul Ricoeur. She is currently working on a number of other articles dealing with various aspects of the ethics of responsibility. Dr McManus also has a book under contract with Cambridge University Press.

In addition to teaching The Human Event, Dr McManus teaches upper-division courses, cross-listed with the Religious Studies Department, on Judaism and the problem of evil, post-Cartesian philosophy of religion, post-Enlightenment ethics of relation, phenomenological existentialism, and foundations of Christian thought. Dr McManus also routinely teaches the “Romantics, Victorians, and Moderns” course on the BHC’s summer study-abroad program to London, Dublin, and Edinburgh.

Dr McManus has been teaching at the BHC since 2000 and is an affiliate faculty member with the Jewish Studies Program. Since joining the BHC, she has been nominated for the Centennial Professorship and the Last Lecture Series.

Dr McManus is also an obsessive Boston Red Sox fan, and her mood sometimes depends on the fortunes of that glorious franchise.