Dwayne A. Tunstall is professor of philosophy and associate dean of inclusive excellence and curriculum at Grand Valley State University. His areas of specialty are African American philosophy, classical American philosophy (especially Josiah Royce), and existentialism. His research interests include moral philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and social and political philosophy. He is the author of two books: Yes, But Not Quite: Encountering Josiah Royce’s Ethico-Religious Insight (Fordham University Press, 2009) and Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism (Fordham University Press, 2013). He is also author of numerous articles and book chapters, including “Royce’s Ethical Insight and Inevitable Moral Failure,” in Joshua R. Farris and Benedikt Paul Göcke, eds., The Routledge Handbook on Idealism and Immaterialism (Routledge, 2021) and “The Spiritual Significance of Curry’s The Man-Not by Critic Tunstall,” in The Acorn (2018).
