I have made a good faith attempt to provide pre-publication drafts or open access links to all of my work. If I have missed anything, I’d be happy to send you a copy. Please e-mail me at lizscar [at] gmail.com.
Ruins / Cultural Heritage / Monuments
2025 “Patina of Sound: Valuing Vinyl Records as Relics of Aged Interaction.” With Brandon Polite. Espes the Slovak Journal of Aesthetics, Vol 14 No 1, p. 104-122. (open access)
2024 “Miami Art Deco Architecture, Climate Change, and Puzzles for Historic Preservation” in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Architectural Reconstruction, edited by Zoltán Somhegyi and Lisa Giombini.
2024 “Examining Monuments” Teaching Philosophy, Vol 47 No. 1, p. 49-67.
2023 “Urban Ruins and the Neo-Picturesque Landscape” Aesthetic Investigations, Special Issue: Architecture beyond the building. Guest edited by Paul Guyer. Vol. 6 No. 1, p. 5-18. https://doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v6i1.12089 (open access)
2023 “The Cape Romano Dome Home: Urban Exploration and the Aesthetic Allure of Abandoned Places” in The Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics Case Studies. DOI: 10.5040/9781350895737.0016 (pre-pub draft here)
2022 “Lizzo Playing Madison’s Flute and Kim Wearing Monroe’s Dress Are Not The Same” Aesthetics for Birds, December 2, 2022
2021 “Are Archaeological Parks the New Amusement Parks? UNESCO World Heritage Status and Tourism” in Anton Killin, Sean Allen-Hermanson (eds.) Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy. Synthese Library (Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science), vol. 433. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61052-4_13
2020 “Dead Monuments” in The Philosopher’s Magazine Issue 91 (pre-pub draft here)
2020 “Burying The Dead Monuments” Aesthetics for Birds, June 18, 2020
2019 “The Ruins of War” in Jeanette Bicknell, Jennifer Judkins, and Carolyn Korsmeyer (eds.) Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials. New York: Routledge, 2019: 228-240. (pre-pub draft here)
2018 “Ruminations on Ruination” The Philosophers’ Magazine Issue 81, 2nd Quarter (pre-pub draft here)
2016 “Visiting the Ruins of Detroit: Cultural Tourism or Poverty Tour?” The Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 34, Issue 3 (2016). (pre-pub draft)
2015 “Authenticity in Ruins: Art Restoration, Architecture, and Beautiful Decay,” ARCADE Magazine, Authenticity: Navigating the Real in Cities, Design and Art, Issue 33.2 (Fall 2015)
2014 “Unimagined Beauty,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 72, Issue 4 (Fall 2014), 445-449.
Movies / Cinema
- Book review of Matt Strohl’s “Why its OK to Love Bad Movies,” The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 261–263, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayac046
- 2022 “Gender, Genre, and Good-Bad Movie Love,” Aesthetics for Birds, April 22, 2022.
- 2019 “9 Movie Experts on their Top 5 Films of the Decade” Aesthetics for Birds, December 3, 2019
- 2017 “Five Questions with Dr. Elizabeth Scarbrough | Film Studies Certificate Program,” FIU Film Studies, April 2017
Publications about teaching / for teaching
- 2025 “There’s No Place Like Home: A Sense of Place in Everyday Aesthetics,” in An Introduction to Contemporary Concepts in Aesthetics: Art, Community and Experience edited by Emmie Malone and Elizabeth Scarbrough (Pre-publication PDF available upon request)
- 2024 “Examining Monuments” Teaching Philosophy, Vol 47 No. 1, p. 49-67.
- 2022 “Teaching Global Aesthetics” with Brandon Polite in the American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter, Volume 42, Number 2 (Summer 2022).
- 2021 “What Makes Nature Beautiful?” in Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetic Theory and Practice. Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetic Theory and Practice The original is freely available under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license at https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-aesthetics.
Book Reviews
- 2023 Book review of Matthew Strohl, Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies (2022). British Journal of Aesthetics.
- 2019 Book review of Carolyn Korsmeyer, Things: In Touch With The Past (2019). British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol 59, Issue 4 (October 2019), 488-491.
- 2019 Book review of Jennifer A. McMahon (ed.), Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability. Abingdon, UK: Routledge (2018). Journal of Aesthetics and Artic Criticism, Vol. 77, Issue 3 (Fall 2019), 336-339.
- 2014 Book review of Peg Zeglin Brand (ed.), Beauty Unlimited, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2013. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia)
Public Philosophy
- Aesthetics for Birds is accessible to the undergraduate classroom. You can see everything I’ve written for them here.
- 2022 “Lizzo Playing Madison’s Flute and Kim Wearing Monroe’s Dress Are Not The Same” Aesthetics for Birds, December 2, 2022
- 2021 “Professor discusses why many popular Halloween costumes are examples of cultural (mis)appropriation” FIU News, October 30, 2021
- 2019 “8 Experts Reveal Their Top 5 in the Decade’s Writing” Aesthetics for Birds, December 9, 2019
- 2017 “War and Ruins,” Philosopher (politicalphilosopher.net), March 2017, politicalphilosopher.net/2017/03/24/featured-philosopher-elizabeth-scarbrough/
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