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USF Philosophy Welcomes Two New Faculty Members
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome Dr. Jack Stetter and Dr. Benjamin Brewer, who began as faculty at the University of South Florida in Fall 2026. Their arrival adds depth to the department’s work in the history of philosophy and in continental thought, and both are already teaching and advising students this semester.
Dr. Stetter earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Université Paris 8 in 2019. His research focuses on early modern philosophy, particularly 17th-century philosophy and the thought of Baruch Spinoza, and he is also interested in figures and topics in 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy.
He co-edited The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) with Stephen Howard, and Spinoza in Twenty-First Century American and French Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) with Charles Ramond. He is an incoming member of the APA Committee on International Cooperation, a chercheur associé of the LLCP at Paris 8, and vice president of the newly founded Society for French and Francophone Philosophy.
Before USF, Dr. Stetter was a visiting assistant professor at Loyola University New Orleans, a Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a postdoctoral researcher at Louisiana State University. He is completing a book, Spinoza and War, along with papers on Spinoza’s conception of states as minds, Hegel’s theory of war, and Coleridge’s critique of Spinoza’s pantheism.
Dr. Brewer received his Ph.D. in Philosophy, with a doctoral certificate in Comparative Literature, from Emory University in 2022. He came to USF after postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Toronto and Freie Universität Berlin and teaching positions at Emory and Loyola Marymount University.
He specializes in continental philosophy, especially phenomenology, deconstruction, and critical theory. His work examines how ontology, politics, and technology intersect, and he also works in ethics and aesthetics, with particular interest in literature and film. His current projects include a monograph on forgetting and the nature of experience in Heidegger’s middle period and another on Heidegger and the “atomic age.” He is also translating the works of phenomenologist Oskar Becker and Heidegger’s writings on Ernst Jünger. His recent articles have appeared in Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, and Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, among other journals.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Stetter and Dr. Brewer to the USF Philosophy community.