Prof. Bruce Janz
Short-Term Fellow
March 2025
Bio
Bruce Janz is Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research at the University of Central Florida. He has taught in Canada, Kenya, South Africa, and the US. His Ph.D. is from the University of Waterloo in Ontario Canada. Janz has published and taught in contemporary European philosophy, African philosophy, phenomenological cognitive science, the history of mysticism, research on place and space, digital humanities, philosophies of the digital and of media.
Janz also works on concepts of place and space across many disciplines, including Geography, Architecture, Sociology, and others, and is the co-editor of the book series “African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue.” His publications include Derrida and Africa: Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought (with J.E. Drabinski, N. Bragg, J. Steyn, K. Kavwahirehi, J.P. Martinon , 2019) and Philosophy in an African Place (2009).
Research
African philosophy, Place and Space, Digital Humanities, Contemporary European Philosophy, Enactivist Cognitive Science
Regions
South Africa; East Africa
Languages
English
books
African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition: The Space of Thought, London / New York: Bloomsbury, 2023.
Derrida and Africa: Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought (with J.E. Drabinski, N. Bragg, J. Steyn, K. Kavwahirehi, J.P. Martinon), Lanham et al.: Lexington Books, 2019.
A Neurophenomenology of Awe and Wonder: Towards a Nonreductionist Cognitive Science (with Shaun Gallagher, Lauren Reinerman-Jones, Patricia Bockelman, and Jörg Trempler), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Place, Space and Hermeneutics, Cham: Springer, 2017.
Philosophy in an African Place, Lanham et al.: Lexington, 2009.
articles
“Peripherality, Non-Philosophy and Ecology in African Philosophy,” in Kenneth Abudu, Kevin Behrens, and Elvis Imafidon, eds., African Philosophy and Deep Ecology, New York / London: Routledge, Forthcoming.
“African Philosophy and the Question of the Future,” in Elvis Imafidon, Mpho Tshivhase, and Bjorn Freter, eds., Handbook of African Philosophy: Central and Emerging Subject Areas, Cham: Springer, 2023.
“Ethnophilosophy and the Wellspring of Philosophy in Africa,” in Aga Agada, ed., Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy, Cham: Springer, 2021.
“The Limits of Individualism and the Potential for Friendliness in Thad Metz’s A Relational Moral Theory,” in: The African Philosophical Inquiry, Fall 2023.
“Free Space in the Academy,” in: The Journal of Academic Freedom, Fall 2016.
“Philosophy-in-Place and the Provenance of Dialogue,” in: South African Journal of Philosophy 34:4 (2015): 480-490.
