I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University, where I am also an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the College of Visual and Performing Arts. I specialize in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, particularly the philosophy of literature (especially poetry). I have a secondary research interest in the philosophy of film. I keep an eye out for developments in philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology, and philosophy of language and linguistics (especially pragmatics, phonetics and phonology) insofar as these may inform my research in aesthetics.

Thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty I am on research leave during 2009-10 working on a manuscript tentatively titled Poetry among the Arts. I have elected to do my work in Barcelona, where I am being hosted by the Logos Research Group at the University of Barcelona Department of Philosophy.

My mailing address while in Spain (June 2009 - August 2010) is:

Profa. Anna Christina Ribeiro
Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència
Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona
Carrer de Montalegre, 6, 4a. planta
08001 Barcelona, España

I am currently editing the Continuum Companion to Aesthetics, a collection of seventeen especially commissioned essays on the main topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, to which I contribute the entry on literature. The Companion will be published in October 2010.

I have presented my research at the meetings of the American Philosophical Association, the American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics, at the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science, and at the Universities of Nottingham, Oslo, and Lisbon, among others.

2009-2010 Courses

• On research fellowship leave.

2009-2010 Events

• 14-16 October 2009: Fall retreat for Mellon/Woodrow Wilson Research Fellows. Princeton, NJ.
• 21-24 October 2009: American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado.
• 1-2 December 2009: Logos Workshop on Fiction.
• 21 April 2010: Talk TBA. University of Barcelona.
• 6-7 May: "(When) Is Poetry Fiction?" University of Múrcia.
• 13-14 May: "(When) Is Poetry Fiction?" University of Leeds.

2010-2011 Events

• 25 October 2010: Talk TBA. University of Houston.
• 27-30 October 2010: American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting. Victoria, British Columbia.
  
• July 2011: Talk TBA. V Congreso Mediterràneo de Estética. University of Múrcia.