Andy Amato is a philosopher, artist, and writer who teaches at the University of Texas at Dallas. He specializes in 19th & 20th century continental philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. His first book, The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Bloomsbury 2019), reads Shakespeare through the hermeneutic lens of Heidegger. He is currently working on a companion piece, The Tragic Imagination in Shakespeare, Emerson, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. He also paints and writes art criticism.