Susan L. Feagin is Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and the editor of "The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism," She is the author of "Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation "(Cornell, 1996) and co-editor, with Patrick Maynard, of "Aesthetics "(Oxford, 1997). She writes generally on philosophy of the visual arts, emotions and art, and philosophy of literature.