Blake Huggins

Dr. Blake Huggins is a two-time Boston University alum (STH’11, GRS’21) with deep roots in Methodism and emancipatory education. Originally from Oklahoma, he first traded rolling prairie for meandering coastline in 2008 and has hung his hat in New England ever since. He has taught courses in rhetoric, philosophy, and ethics at BU and other area colleges and has also served as a tutor for the CAS Core Curriculum and STH Writing Works.

Dr. Huggins’s teaching is nourished by his work as an award-winning copywriter and his training as an interdisciplinary scholar. He studies continental philosophy, critical theory, and political theologies and is especially interested in how religious forms of thought impact secular conceptions of time, memory, and subjectivity. His research draws on sources in phenomenology, late antiquity, and American film to examine how affective experiences of “mixed” or ambivalent feeling circulate in contemporary life under the conditions of neoliberalism. He is also interested in the ethical and conceptual challenges posed by the rise of artificial intelligence and its connections to power, transcendence, and surveillance.