Rate My Professor Robert Hughes

Hughes's scholarly contributions include the monograph The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature: Thinking the Body-Thought (Routledge, 2024) and Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language (SUNY Press, 2010). He co-edited After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious (SUNY Press, 2002). Key articles feature “Bernard Stiegler, Philosophical Amateur, or, Individuation from Éros to Philía” in Diacritics (2014) and “Sleepy Hollow: Fearful Pleasures and the Nightmare of History” in Arizona Quarterly (2005), reprinted in multiple criticism volumes. An accomplished translator, he has rendered works by Peter Sloterdijk, including Making the Heavens Speak: Religion as Poetry (Polity Press, 2023) and If You Have Never Thought Gray: A Theory of Color (Polity Press, 2025). His honors include the Teaching Excellence Award from Ohio State University Newark campus in 2012 and 2020, the Most Valuable Professor Award from Augusta State University in 2005, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from Emory University in 1999. As co-director of the International Philosophical Seminar in Italy and editorial board member of Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica since 2008, Hughes has presented extensively on thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, and Hélène Cixous, advancing discourse in aesthetics, literary theory, and phenomenology.