Emily Brady

Emily Brady

Emily Brady is Professor of Philosophy and Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director and Chair at the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. Previously, she was Professor of Environment and Philosophy in the Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching interests span aesthetics and philosophy of art, environmental ethics, and eighteenth-century philosophy. She has authored or co-edited seven books, including, Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (2003), The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature (2013), and Between Nature and Culture: The Aesthetics of Modified Environments (with Isis Brook and Jonathan Prior, 2018). Her current book project, Planetary Aesthetics, constructs a new agenda for the field of philosophical aesthetics by focusing on urgent environmental problems and arguing for the importance of intergenerational thinking. At the Glasscock Center, she leads the cross-disciplinary initiative, Humanities: Land Sea Space.