Jon Ivan GillFaculty

Jon Ivan Gill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College. He has written on Afrofuturism, Hip-Hop, philosophy of religion, poststructuralism, philosophy of race, atheism, creative writing, process philosophies, and  Yoruba and Maya cosmologies. He is co-owner of the indie record label Serious Cartoons Records and co-owner of the record store Aesthetic Religion Records and Texts in Saint Peter, MN. He is also a solo Hip-Hop artist using the moniker "Gilead7," a member of Chicago Hip-Hop collective Tomorrow Kings, Southern California-based Echoes of Oratory Muzik, and the duo Crystal Radio along with Michael Adame, also known as Phantom Thrett. His first book, Underground Rap as Religion: A Theopoetic Examination of Process Aesthetic Religion, was released in November of 2019 under the Routledge Studies in Hip-Hop and Religion series, edited by Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn. His latest edited student volume, Toward Afrodiasporic and Afrofuturist Philosophies of Religion, was released in April of 2022 by Wipf and Stock. His third monograph, Multi/race/less/ness: A Process Alternative to Category, is completed and forthcoming under Bloomsbury's Continental Philosophy series in the fall of 2025. Jon's classes are realms where the most absurd and aduacious out of the box approaches are the crystally un/clear windows to transformative philosophical insight that can be lived usefully in the world.

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