Rate My Professor Dalia Nassar

Dalia Nassar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, affiliated with the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and serves as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow. She earned her PhD from the Department of Philosophy at Boston College in 2007. Previously, she held the position of Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University while serving as an ARC Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Nassar's research focuses on German Romantic philosophy, the philosophy of nature, environmental philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy, particularly the ideas of Kant, Herder, Goethe, Schelling, and Humboldt. She explores themes such as Romantic empiricism, ecology, environmental ethics, and women's contributions to nineteenth-century German philosophy.

Nassar has received significant recognition through fellowships and grants, including the Humboldt Research Fellowship, ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA DE120102402, 2012-2014), ARC Discovery Project (DP160103769, 2016-2020), and ARC Future Fellowship (FT240100665). Her influential publications include the monograph The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804 (University of Chicago Press, 2013), cited over 260 times; Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Oxford University Press, 2022); and The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2014). She has edited Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2024). Key articles encompass 'Knowing well: Goethe, Bildung, and the ethics of scientific knowledge' (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2022), 'The Human Vocation and the Question of the Earth: Karoline von Günderrode’s Philosophy of Nature' (Inquiry, 2021), and 'From a Philosophy of Self to a Philosophy of Nature: Goethe and the Development of Schelling's Naturphilosophie' (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2010). With over 70 publications, her scholarship bridges historical philosophy with contemporary environmental concerns. Nassar has served as Research Coordinator for the Discipline of Philosophy in Semester 1 and contributes to editorial roles, including introductions in philosophical reviews.