James DiGiovanna is a film reviewer and filmmaker, and the author of a number of published short stories.
[2] His doctoral thesis, Ethics and Aesthetics of Self-Creation, is an exploration of the idea, in Pico, Milton, Blake, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, that humans are tasked with creating themselves.
Together with Carey Burtt, DiGiovanna co-wrote, directed, and produced the film, A Forked World (2004).
In his blog The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan described their parody of a political attack ad on Immanuel Kant[4] as "hilarious.
"[5] DiGiovanna formerly taught at SUNY Stony Brook's Manhattan graduate program in philosophy of art.