Texas Tech University

Department of Philosophy

Anna Christina Ribeiro moved to the United States from her native Brazil in 1991. While studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and English at Hunter College in New York City, she took a study abroad year in Belgium. There she completed the 2-year B.Phil. program during 1995-96 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, one of the oldest universities in the world and the oldest extant Catholic University. After concluding her studies at Hunter College in 1997, she returned to Leuven for a Master's degree in philosophy, which gave her a solid foundation in the history of philosophy and an understanding of both the analytic and Continental traditions (the latter being a strength at KUL's Higher Institute of Philosophy). Having found her interests and methodology more in line with the analytic tradition predominant in the Anglo-American philosophical world, she returned to the U.S. in 1999 to pursue her doctoral studies at the University of Maryland in College Park, under the supervision of Jerrold Levinson. She specialized in aesthetics and the philosophy of art and wrote a dissertation on the philosophy of poetry. There, and in "Intending to Repeat: A Definition of Poetry" (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65:2, Spring 2007), she defends an intentional-historical, formalist definition of poetry. Ribeiro seeks to inform her research in aesthetics and the philosophy of literature with research in cognitive psychology, pragmatics, and phonetics and phonology. She is also interested in the philosophy of film, and has secondary interests in the philosophies of mind and language.

Ribeiro is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Memorable Moments: A Philosophy of Poetry, on the Continuum Companion to Aesthetics (an edited collection of commissioned essays on the main topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art), and on the "Poetry" entry of the Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics (2nd ed.), among other projects. She has presented her work 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 and Oslo, among others. She will be the Spring 2008 Philosopher-in-Residence at Oklahoma State University.

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