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Areas of Interest: Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Existential Philosophy, Comparative Religion
Dr. McCullough's research centers on modern philosophy of religion and interpretations of modernity. She has taught philosophy at CSUDH since fall 2014, and has previously taught religious studies at Muhlenberg College, Hanover College, and New York University. She completed her doctorate at the University of Chicago, her master's degree at Harvard University, and her bachelor鈥檚 degree at University of California Santa Cruz. She is author of The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil (I.B. Tauris, 2014), and editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil (Bloomsbury, 2025) and Conversations with Paolo Soleri (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), among other books, essays, and articles. Many are available at
Books
- The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil. Edited by Lissa McCullough. London: Bloomsbury, 2025.
- The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil. London: I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury, 2014.
- D. G. Leahy and the Thinking Now Occurring. Edited by Lissa McCullough and Elliot R. Wolfson. New York: SUNY, 2021.
- Conversations with Paolo Soleri. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012.
Recent Articles
- 鈥淪imone Weil and Phenomenology,鈥� in The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil, edited by Deborah Casewell and Christopher Thomas. London: Routledge, 2026. Pages 417鈥�427.
- 鈥淧ower in Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil,鈥� Chapter 1 in Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations, edited by Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Pages 19鈥�41.
- 鈥淪imone Weil and the Empathetic Emotions,鈥� Chapter 15 in The Empathic Emotions in the History of Philosophy, edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson and David James. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pages 277鈥�290.
- 鈥淭he Need for Roots,鈥� Chapter 4 in A Declaration of Duties toward Humankind: A Critical Companion to Simone Weil鈥檚 鈥淭he Need for Roots,鈥� edited by Eric O. Springsted and Ronald K. L. Collins. Durham: Carolina Academic, 2024. Pages 99鈥�132.
- 鈥淭he Death of God in the Nineteenth Century,鈥� in The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology, edited by Daniel Whistler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Pages 7鈥�26.
- 鈥淪imone Weil and the Meaning of Life,鈥� in The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers, edited by Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia. London: Routledge, 2018. Pages 232鈥�236.
- 鈥淪imone Weil鈥檚 Phenomenology of the Body,鈥� Comparative and Continental Philosophy 4:2 (November 2012): 195鈥�218.
Works in Progress
- 鈥淭echnology and Historicity,鈥� in Nostalgia for the Infinite? Edited by Max K. Feenan and Jan Kerkmann. Baden-Baden: Karl Alber, 2027.
- 鈥淲hat Sophocles Meant to Simone Weil,鈥� in Sophocles and the Philosophers, edited by Giacomo A. A. Scavello. London: Bloomsbury, 2027.
- 鈥淪imone Weil on War as Uprooting Force,鈥� in War Between Reality and Ideal: Comparative Perspectives in Political and Philosophical Thought, edited by Michail Theodosiadis. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2028.