About
Hi. I'm Ley. It's pronounced "Lee."
I'm a scholar working in ontology, aesthetics, comics studies, and gender studies. I currently teach at New Mexico State University and Doña Ana Community College, and have previously taught at Texas Christian University, Grand Valley State University, and an Ohio State University.
Beyond all that, I'm a public and clinical educator and consultant specializing in gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity in a neuroinclusive framework. I've collaborated with Plume, Growth Thru Change, Sexual Health Alliance, Charlie Health, MŌN, Plura, and more.
My Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath Number is 18.
You can view my CV here.
Contact me at leydavidelliette[at]gmail[dot]com.
Journal Articles
Picture-Reading the Complexities of Transgender Experience. 2024. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. doi:10.1017/can.2024.29
LGBTQIA+ Adapted Telehealth Intensive Outpatient Program for Youth and Young Adults: Subgroup Analysis of Acuity and Improvement Following Treatment (with Kate Gliske, Katie Berry, Claire Schmidt, Michael Killian, and Caroline Fenkel). 2023. JMIR Formative Research. doi: 10.2196/45796
Some Considerations Regarding Adornment, the Gender "Binary," and Gender Expression. 2021. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79(4): 488-492
Some Ideas About the Metaphysics of Stories. 2019. British Journal of Aesthetics 59(2): 147-160
Transparent and Opaque Performance Personas. 2019. Journal of Aesthetics of Art Criticism 77(2): 181-191
Psychologism about Artistic Plans: A Response to Rohrbaugh. 2018. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76(1): 101-104
How to Be Omnipresent (with Sam Cowling). 2017. American Philosophical Quarterly 54(3): 223-234
Abstract Generationism: A Response to Friedell. 2017. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75(3): 289-292
A Return to Musical Idealism (with Carl Matheson). 2017. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95(3): 702-715
Unperformable Works and the Ontology of Music. 2016. British Journal of Aesthetics 56(1): 67-81
An Ontology of Ideas (with Timothy Schroeder). 2015. Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1(4): 757-775
Yellowism and Ontology: A Skeptical Analysis. 2015. Contemporary Aesthetics 13
Conceptual Art, Ideas, and Ontology. 2014. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72(3): 235-245
Team-Teaching the Atheism-Theism Debate (with Steven Brown). 2014. Teaching Philosophy 37(4): 465-480
Inconstancy and Content. 2014. Dialectica 68(3): 337-353
Omniscience and Worthiness of Worship. 2011. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 70(2): 147-153
Book Chapters
The Role of Performance Personae in Black Metal Aesthetics. Forthcoming. In The Heaviest Ideas in the Universe: A Philosophy of Heavy Metal. McCraw and Simmons, eds. Wiley-Blackwell.
Omnipresence and Mathematical Reality (with Sam Cowling). 2025. In The Oxford Handbook of Omnipresence. Marmodoro and Migliorini, eds.. Oxford University Press
Taylor's Versions and Versions of Taylor. 2025. In Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-Recording: The Art of Taylor's Versions. Polite, ed. Bloomsbury Press
Bands, Personas, and the Evaluative Import of (Some) Social Ontology. 2024. In The Ontology of Music Groups: Identity, Persistence, and Agency of Creative Groups. Peterson and Janson, eds. Routledge
Batman: A Case Study in Ontology and Appreciation. 2022. Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics
The Karmic Tragedy of Bruce Wayne: Batman as Anti-Buddha. 2022. In Theology and Batman: Examining the Religious World of the Dark Knight. Brake and Robertson, eds. Lexington Press
Sabbath Doesn't Need the Ozzman. 2012. In Black Sabbath and Philosophy: Mastering Reality. Irwin, ed. Wiley-Blackwell
Book Reviews
Review of Why It's OK to Not Be Monogamous. 2023. Teaching Philosophy 46(4): 576-570
Review of Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste. 2023. British Journal of Aesthetics 63(4): 608-611.
Review of Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics. 2020. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78(1): 126-129
Review of The Aesthetics of Videogames. 2018. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Review of The Aesthetics and Ethics of Copying. 2017. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Other Short Pieces
Aesthetics from the Closet. 2021. American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter 41(1): 1-3
Minimizing Misgendering: A Plea for Better Pronoun Practices. 2021. Aesthetics for Birds
Why Genderfucking is Awesome. 2021. Aesthetics for Birds