Patrick Pender
Dean's Teaching Fellow
Patrick Pender is a PhD candidate in philosophy and a Dean’s Teaching Fellow at the CFDE. Since arriving at Emory in 2020, Patrick has served as the instructor for a range of introductory philosophy courses, including Philosophy of Love and Friendship, European Philosophy and Existentialism, and Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Nature. Patrick’s approach to pedagogy is informed by his research and background in psychoanalysis. In May 2024, Patrickgraduated from the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute’s Core Program. He is currently in formation as a psychoanalyst in the Lacanian orientation.
Patrick’s research focuses on 19th century German philosophy and Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis. His dissertation explores the role played by otherness in philosophical and psychoanalytic theories of the immanent natural genesis of transcendental subjectivity.
Patrick holds an MA in philosophy from Duquesne University (2020) and a BA in government from Harvard College (2017).