Dr. Rachel Elliott received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Guelph. Her main research interests are in Continental Philosophy and Phenomenology, especially Merleau-Ponty and Husserl, with additional interests in Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Disability, and Critical Improvisation Studies. Her work takes up questions of embodiment in collective experience, a theme she has written about as it relates to music as well as online sociality. Dr. Elliott has recently published articles on these themes in Continental Philosophy Review and Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. She is working on a manuscript for Palgrave Macmillan tentatively called A Critical Phenomenology of Music.
Degrees
PhD, University of Guelph
MA, University of Toronto
BA (Hons.), McGill University
Publications:
A Critical Phenomenology of Music. Palgrave Macmillan. (forthcoming)
“Intercorporeality Online: Anchoring in Sound.” Continental Philosophy Review. July 2023.
“Musical Introspection and the Affective Group-en-Fusion: Existential Reckoning with the Political and Climate Crises.” American Music Review. Vol. 2.2. 2021/2023: 158 - 170.
“Sharing Time in We-Experiences: A Critical Merleau-Pontian Re-Reading of Schütz’s Tuning-In Relationship” Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. Vol. 5.5. 2022: 1 - 22.
“Suspending the Habit Body through Immersive Resonance: Hesitation and Constitutive Duet in Jen Reimer and Max Stein’s Site-Specific Improvisation.” Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation. Vol. 12 (2). 2018.
“The Significance of Meaningless Gestures in Derrida and Husserl.” Glimpse. Vol. 17. 2016: 20 - 26.
