David Ross Fryer is a native Philadelphian who works in phenomenology, psychoanalysis, ethics, gender theory, queer theory, Africana thought, and Jewish thought.  He received his B.A. (1991) in Intellectual History from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) in Contemporary Religious Thought from Brown University.  He spent several years teaching in the midwest and returned home to Philadelphia in June, 2006, to be a Fellow at the Institute.  He is the author of The Intervention of the Other:  Levinas and Lacan on Ethical Subjectivity (Other Press 2004), as well as several pieces on thinkers from Edmund Husserl to Judith Butler and topics from the ethics of deconstruction to African-American queer studies.  His work has appeared in such distinguished journals as Inquiry, Listening, Radical Philosophy Review, and Psychoanalytic Review and in such distinguished books as Not Only the Master's Tools (Gordon & Gordon, Paradigm 2006) and A Companion to African-American Studies (Gordon & Gordon, Blackwell 2006).  He has just completed his second book, Thinking Queerly:  Post-Normativity and the Ethics of Identity (forthcoming from Paradigm Publishers 2008), and has begun work on a phenomenology of queer life.  In addition to his work with the Institute, Fryer teaches courses in secular Judaism, race and Judaism, and feminist theory at Temple.  He lives in Mt. Airy with his partner, his daughter, and their four cats.