New Contributor: Elizabeth Scarbrough

I am happy to welcome our newest contributor, Elizabeth Scarbrough. Elizabeth is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Washington in Seattle where she is writing her dissertation on the aesthetic appreciation of ruins. Elizabeth earned a BA in history from Oberlin College, and a MA in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, where she wrote her MA thesis on Clement Greenberg. She is currently the director of her philosophy department’s writing center and is a volunteer 35mm projectionist at Seattle’s oldest continuous running movie theater, The Grand Illusion. She also recently published a symposium piece on the aesthetics of ruin and absence, "Unimagined Beauty", in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Welcome!