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Gina Zavota is Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Philosophy at С��Ƭ��Ƶ. She graduated magna cum laude with a B. A. in Philosophy from , where she also studied painting and creative writing. In addition, she earned a degree in Mathematics from before returning to philosophy and obtaining her Ph.D. from .

While a doctoral student, she studied in Wuppertal, Germany for three years, two of which were supported by a fellowship. She has also lived and conducted research in Brussels and Leuven, Belgium, with a fellowship, and in Cairo as an associate of the .

Her historical areas of specialization include 20th and 21st century Continental philosophy (particularly phenomenology and contemporary ontology), Ancient Greek philosophy, and classical Buddhist thought. She has thematic research interests in the philosophy of art, feminist theory and gender studies, metaphysics, the philosophy of science and mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and environmental philosophy. She is the co-editor (with Rudolf Bernet and Donn Welton) of the five-volume set, , and has published numerous scholarly articles and German translations. 

She was the co-organizer of the Husserl in a New Generation conference and served for seven years as grievance officer of the . In addition, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the . She is currently completing a manuscript on Merleau-Ponty’s late ontology and editing anthologies on Husserlian phenomenology and on Neoplatonic philosophy and the arts.

Her most cited articles include:

1. ,” Film-Philosophy 24:2 (2020): 185-203.
2. “,” Acta Structuralica Special Issue 2 (2018): 147-169.
3. “,” in Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, ed. Abraham Jacob Greenstine and Ryan Johnson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2017).
4. “,” Essays in Philosophy 17.2 (2016): 94–124.
5. “,” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 40.2 (2009): 188–206.