Katalin Makkai was born in Budapest and grew up in Montreal (Canada); she moved to the United States for graduate school and has lived there since, most recently in New York City. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 2001, and from 2001 to 2009 was assistant professor in the joint Department of Philosophy of Barnard College and Columbia University. Her current projects concern Kant's critical aesthetics, the later Wittgenstein and his contemporary readers (especially McDowell and Cavell), and film and philosophy. She is particularly interested in post-Kantian turns against metaphysics and in questions of philosophical methodology and writing. Her article "Kant on Recognizing Beauty" is forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy. She is editor of--and a contributor to--a collection of essays on Vertigo, forthcoming in Routledge's Philosophers on Film series. 

Courses taught at ECLA:

Classical Texts in Ethics and Political Theory
Richard Moran’s Authority and Estrangement (PY Reading Group)