- Ph.D. in Education, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- M.Ed. in Educational Foundations, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- B.A. in Art History and the Visual Arts, Occidental College
Amy Sojot
Assistant Professor of Education Studies
amysojot@depauw.edu(765) 658-4303
Personal Website
Using interdisciplinary approaches, my teaching and research address contemporary educational assumptions through philosophy, political theory, cultural studies, and pop-cultural critique. My current project explores how sensations can generate open-ended pedagogies and circumvent constrictive approaches to the body, focusing on the textures of teaching and learning as well as the politics of knowledge production.
I enjoy collaborating with others on a variety of educational issues. Empire and Education, originally a special issue in Educational Philosophy and Theory, was recently published as an edited book. Particularly fond of science fiction and its creative capacity for philosophical inquiry, I contributed a chapter to Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy: Children Ex Machina. My work has also appeared in Policy Futures in Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.
Believing that theory can indeed be fun and collaborative, I have cohosted Collective Intellectualities since 2021. Available on major platforms and produced in conjunction with the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) and PESA Agora, Collective Intellectualities is dedicated to lively discussions with scholars and public intellectuals on the future of education.
You can find more information about my work here.
Educational Background
Teaching Interests
Courses Taught:
- EDUC 170: Foundations of Education
- EDUC 223: Deconstructing Difference
- EDUC 390: Feelings, Things, and Bodies in Education
- EDUC 390: Educational Futures
- EDUC 390: Education, Empire, Eco-crisis, and Ethics
Selected Publications
Edited Books:
- Means, A., Sojot, A. N., Ida, Y., & Sustarsic, M. (Eds.). (2023). Empire and education. Routledge.
- Sojot, A. N. (2024). Disciplining subjectivities and sensing time in a US university. Journal of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, 1(6), 155–177. Special issue: Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Higher Education: New Approaches, Theories, and Conditions of Possibility.
- Sojot, A. N. (2023). Cronenberg pedagogy and fleshy possibilities for educational futures. Policy Futures in Education, 21(5), 514–525. Special issue: Educational Futures, Vol. 1.
- Jackson, L. & Sojot, A. N. (2023). So much more than research: Learning from women leaders in philosophy of education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(9), 1006–1015. Special issue: Women Leadership in Philosophy of Education: The Women Presidents of PESA
- Sojot, A. N. (2022). Emotional fundamentalism and education of the body. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54 (7), 927–937.
- Sojot, A. N. (2024). Feeling pedagogy’s affective and material flashpoints in the science fiction animation “Zima Blue.” In Bernadette M. Baker, Antti Saari, Liang Wang, & Hannah M. Tavares, (Eds.), Flashpoint Epistemology Volume I: Arts and Humanities-based Rethinkings of Interconnection, Technologies, and Education. Routledge.
- Sojot, A. N. (2019). Tension, sensation, and pedagogy: Depictions of childhood’s struggle in Saga and Paper Girls. In David W. Kupferman & Andrew Gibbons (Eds.), Childhood, pedagogy, and science fiction: Children ex-machina (pp. 111–132). Springer Nature.
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