Nicholas Guardiano
Associate Professor
nguardia@siu.edu
618-453-1499
Morris Library 124C / Faner Hall 3163
Philosophy, Library
Nicholas Guardiano specializes in American transcendentalism and pragmatism (esp. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Peirce), metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of nature, semiotics, and nineteenth-century American art. He teaches broadly in the history of philosophy, and he oversees the philosophy collections at the Special Collections Research Center where he is Alwin C. Carus Archivist.
Recent Publications
- Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.
- “Charles S. Peirce’s New England Neighbors and Embrace of Transcendentalism.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53, no. 2 (2017): 216-45.
- “Metaphysical Grounds of Universal Semiosis.” Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia 21, no. 2 (2020): 231-45. https://doi.org/10.23925/2316-5278.2020v21i2p231-245.
- "Transcendentalist Encounters with a Universe of Signs.” The American Journal of Semiotics 37, nos. 1–2 (2021): 5-45.
- “Domesticating: A Meditation on Self-Reliance.” The Pluralist 17, no. 2 (2022): 31-34.
- “Self-Culture in Emerson’s Schellingian Solution to Fate.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 45, no. 2 (2024): 28-43.
- “Genial-Heat Imagination: John James Audubon’s Proto-Transcendentalist Sentimentalism.” In Emerson’s Affinities: Father of the American Mind. Edited by Emile Alexandrov and Steve Stakland. Routledge, 2026.
- “Emerson’s Aesthetics: The Abiding Life of Beauty.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Michael Jonik. Cambridge University Press, 2026.