Manoussakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He was born in Athens, Greece, and educated in the United States (Ph.D., Boston College). His publications focus on philosophy of religion, phenomenology (in particular Heidegger and Marion), Plato and the Neo-Platonic tradition, Patristics, and Psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan). In 2015 he became the recipient of a Templeton Foundation grant.