Brett Buchanan

I am a philosopher with broad interdisciplinary interests, and teaching and research expertise in contemporary continental philosophy, ethics, environmental humanities, and animal studies. I am currently finalizing a translation of L’animalité by Dominique Lestel, researching the philosophical ethology within the “nature fakers” controversy, and writing, somewhat tentatively, a creative work on cross-country skiing.

I was appointed Dean of Arts in 2022, with a faculty appointment to the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Before arriving at CUE I was a tenured Full Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Laurentian University from 2006-2021. From 2014 to 2020 I was the Director of the School of the Environment (a unit that included Archaeology, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Études de l’environnement, and Science Communication), and I was previously Chair of the Department of Philosophy (2009, 2010, 2013-2015). I was also affiliated with Laurentian’s Humanities M.A. and the Human Studies Ph.D., graduate programs through which I supervised students. In 2015 I was a Visiting Fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, where I was able to pursue research projects with colleagues in philosophical ethology, and during a six-month sabbatical in 2017 I was a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris. During spring and summer of 2021 I was an Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh (a virtual fellowship due to COVID19). During 2021-2022 I was a Visiting Scholar in the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism (CSTC) at Western University. For more information, please see my personal website.

Education

• PhD, Philosophy (2006), DePaul University
• MA, Theory & Criticism (1999), University of Western Ontario
• BA (Hons), Psychology (1997), University of Alberta

Recent Publications

Books

——. Lestel, Dominique. Animality. Translated and Introduced by Brett Buchanan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, “Animalities” Series. Under Contract.

2016. Despret, Vinciane. What Would Animals Say if We Asked the Right Questions? Translated by Brett Buchanan. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, “Posthumanities” Series.

2008. Buchanan, Brett. Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexküll, Heidegger, MerleauPonty, and Deleuze. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 223pp. (Environmental Philosophy and Ethics Series.)

Edited Books & Journal Issues

2021. Buchanan, Brett, Matthew Chrulew, and Michelle Bastian (eds). Field Philosophy and Other Experiments. London: Routledge Press, 2021. **(NB. Reprint of parallax issue)

2018. Buchanan, Brett, Matthew Chrulew, and Michelle Bastian (eds). “Field Philosophy and Other Experiments.” parallax 24:4 (2018). 2018. Bussolini, Jeffrey, Brett Buchanan, and Matthew Chrulew. The Philosophical Ethology of Roberto Marchesini. London: Routledge Press, 2018. **(NB. Reprint of Angelaki issue)

2018. Buchanan, Brett, Matthew Chrulew, and Jeffrey Bussolini (eds). The Philosophical Ethology of Vinciane Despret. London: Routledge Press, 2018. **(NB. Reprint of Angelaki issue)

2018. Chrulew, Matthew, Jeffrey Bussolini, and Brett Buchanan (eds). The Philosophical Ethology of Dominique Lestel. London: Routledge Press, 2018. **(NB. Reprint of Angelaki issue)

2016. Bussolini, Jeffrey, Brett Buchanan, and Matthew Chrulew (eds.). Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Special Issue: Philosophical Ethology III: Roberto Marchesini. 21.1.

2015. Buchanan, Brett, Matthew Chrulew, and Jeffrey Bussolini (eds.). Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Special Issue: Philosophical Ethology II: Vinciane Despret. 20.2 (2015).

2014. Chrulew, Matthew, Jeffrey Bussolini and Brett Buchanan (eds.). Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Special Issue: Philosophical Ethology I: Dominique Lestel. 19.3 (2014).

Articles & Chapters

2019. Buchanan, Brett. “Foreword: Philosophizing with Animals,” Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy: Life, Environments, Philosophy. Eds. Francesca Michelini and Kristian Köchy. London: Routledge Press, 2019.

2019. Buchanan, Brett. “All Animals’ Land,” No Man’s Land: L’homme a-t-il encore sa place?. Ed. Marion-Laval Jeantet. Montreuil, FR: CQFD, 2019.

2019. Buchanan, Brett. “New Environmentalisms: The Anthropocene and Other Climate Stories,” The New World Disorder: Challenges and Threats in an Uncertain World. Eds. JL Black, Michael Johns, and Alanna Theriault. Lexington Press, 2019.

2018. Buchanan, Brett. “The Surprise of Field Philosophy: Philosophical Encounters with Animal Worlds.” parallax 24:4 (2018): 392-405. DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2018.1546717

2018. Buchanan, Brett, Michelle Bastian, and Matthew Chrulew. “Introduction: Field Philosophy and Other Experiments.” parallax 24:4 (2018): 383-391. DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2018.1546715

2017. Buchanan, Brett. “Precarious Communities: Towards a Phenomenology of Extinction,” Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations, Eds., Marjolein Oele and Gerard Kuperus. Cham: Springer Publishing, 2017.

2017. Buchanan, Brett. “Essere-per-l’estinzione,” Trans. Lucia Zaietta. Animal Studies: Fenomenologia e Animalità I. Eds. Luca Vanzago and Lucia Zaietta. Roma: Novalogos (2017): 65-79.

2016. Buchanan, Brett. “Maestro Latour,” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Vol 4 (1), 2016: 124-129. DOI: 10.5250/resilience.4.1.0124

2016. Buchanan, Brett. “Bear Down: Resilience and Multispecies Ethology,” The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, eds. Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann. London: Routledge Press, 2016.