Sean Akerman

BA, Wheaton College. PhD candidate, Graduate Center, City University of New York. Areas of specialization include life studies and narrative inquiry, existential and phenomenological theories of interpretation, and stories of transformation (i.e., the sublime, creative development, physical illness, and trauma). Current work includes an exploration into aesthetic experience and its relation to the practice of self and identity and an inquiry into the inheritance of exile among Tibetans living in New York City. SLC 2011—