Dr. Eva M. Dadlez is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma and currently resides in Ithaca, New York. She received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She writes on issues at the intersection (often at the collision) of aesthetics, ethics and epistemology. She has written two books on the preceding: Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and What's Hecuba to Him? Fictional Events and Actual Emotions (Penn State University Press, 1997) and, most recently, edited Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives for Oxford University Press.

She is also a feminist ethics dilettante.

​Find out more about her latest work on tattoos and philosophy, most recently presented at the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress and read her latest blog post on the Oxford University Press's Academic Insights for the Thinking World: There are two different types of Jane Austen fans.