Joseph Giavotella

Joseph Giavotella is an Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy. His teaching interests include Phenomenology and Existentialism, Ethics, Aesthetics, and Literary Theory. He is also employed full-time as an Emergency Management Grant Specialist and applies his professional experience to courses on business and medical ethics. Following his graduate thesis on phenomenological methodology, his research currently focuses on phenomenological investigations of J.R.R Tolkien's writings concerning mythopoeia and 'sub-creating' to explore their deeper philosophical contributions to phenomenology and philosophy of imagination through engagement with Husserl, Heidegger, Bachelard, and Derrida.