Professor of Philosophy
Elisabeth Camp is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, specializing in language, mind, and aesthetics, especially on forms of thinking and talking that play on individual and collective imagination, including metaphor and sarcasm, slurs and insinuation, and poetry, fiction, and just-so stories. She grew up at the Great Mother Conference and obtained her PhD from UC Berkeley. She previously held positions at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.