Janet McCracken


Janet McCracken is the chair of Classical studies and professor of philosophy at Lake Forest College. She specializes in aesthetics.

Biography

McCracken earned a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and a Master of Arts and PhD from University of Texas at Austin. She currently serves as the director of the Ethics Center at Lake Forest College and was the Krebs Provost and Dean of the Faculty from 2005 to 2011 and the associate dean of the faculty from 2000 to 2002.
Her husband Chad McCracken also teaches philosophy at Lake Forest College.

Selected publications

Books

  • Taste and the Household: The "Domestic Aesthetic" and Moral Reasoning. author
  • Thinking About Gender: A Historical Anthology. editor and commentary.

Chapters in anthologies

  • "Perry Mason as Greek Tragedy: the Eternal Allure of Aristotle." Perry Mason and Philosophy. ed. by Robert Arp. Open Court, forthcoming 2018.
  • "Grief and the Memnonics of Place: A Thank You Note," in Passion, Death, and Spirituality: The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon. Edited by Kathleen Higgins and David Sherman. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2012
  • The Aesthetics of Playtime Recycling," in The Aesthetics of Human Environments. Edited by Arnold Berleant and Allen Carlson. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2007. Based on a presentation, "Recycling Aesthetics,"

Journal articles