James R. Hamilton is a member of the Philosophy Department at Kansas State University. His research is in aesthetics, focusing on theater. He has published articles in the "British Journal of Aesthetics," the "Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism," and the "Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism," has entries in the Oxford "Encyclopedia of Aesthetics" and the "Routledge Companion to Aesthetics," and has received NEH and Big XII Fellowships.