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MARCIA S. MORGAN
Department of Philosophy, Muhlenberg College
2400 Chew Street, Allentown PA 18104
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Email: [email protected]
http://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/academics/philosophy/faculty/marciamorgan/

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Philosophy of art and aesthetics; the intersection of ethics and aesthetics; 19th-20th century
Continental philosophy, with special focus on Kierkegaard and existentialism, critical
theory, feminist theory and literary theory.

AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
German Idealism (Kant and Hegel) and Phenomenology

EDUCATION
1998-2003 Ph.D. in Philosophy, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science
New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Dissertation Title: “The Aesthetic-Religious Nexus in Theodor W. Adorno’s
Interpretation of the Works of Søren Kierkegaard.”
Dissertation Director: Ágnes Heller. Readers: Richard J. Bernstein, Albrecht Wellmer
Received the Alice Gurwitsch Dissertation Award, New School for Social Research

1995-1998 M.A. Philosophy, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science
New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Master’s Thesis Title: “The Concept of Mimēsis in Adorno’s Aesthetics”
Master’s Thesis Director: Ágnes Heller. Readers: Richard J. Bernstein, Christoph Menke

Additional Post-Graduate Study
2000 Summer, Goethe Institute, Intensive German Language Program, Berlin, Germany
1999 Summer, Bremen University, Intensive German Language Study, Germany
1998-2000: Consortium Coursework, City University of New York, Graduate Center
with Professors Marx Wartofsky (Philosophy) and Leo Treitler (Music).
1997 Summer, Julliard School, Musical Composition, New York
1992-95 Freelance Artist, New York City

Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania
1988-1992 B.S. Accounting, Philosophy Minor

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
(Muhlenberg College unless otherwise noted)
2016: Paul C. Empie ’29 Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching
2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, and 2011: Summer Research Grant (eight weeks)
2017, 2015 and 2012: The Daniel J. & Carol Shiner Wilson Research Award
2017, 2014, 2011, 2010: Faculty Course Development Grant, Center for Ethics
2014: Robert C. Williams Faculty Research Award
2014: Faculty Development and Scholarship Collaborative Research Grant
2013-14: Grant for Women’s and Gender St. Forum: “Freedom, Personhood, & Justice”
2011: Invited Lecturer Grant, Center of Philosophy, University of Lisbon, Portugal
2011: RJ Fellows Course Development Grant
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2010: Edna Hong Research Scholarship, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong
Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
2010: Humanities Seminar Grant, Muhlenberg College
2010: Visiting Scholar Stipend, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College
2003: Conference Travel Grant, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen
2003: Guest Scholar Research Grant, Institute for Philosophy, TU Dresden, Germany
2003: Research in Residence Grant, Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College
2000-01 and 2001-02: Annual Research Grant (renewed for a second year), German
Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/
DAAD), Potsdam University and Free University of Berlin, Germany
2000-01: Alice Gurwitsch Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social Research
May-July 2000: Guest Scholar Research Stipend, Technical University of Dresden
May 2000: Research Grant, Institute for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship-Committee
on Western European Studies, New School for Social Research
March 2000: Conference Travel Grant, New School for Social Research
1999-00 and 2000-01: Dean's Fellowship, New School for Social Research
1999: German Language Study Scholarship, Bremen University, Germany
1998-99: Graduate Teaching Award, New School for Social Research
August 1998: Conference Travel Grant, New School for Social Research
March 1998: Conference Travel Grant, New School for Social Research
1997-98, 96-97, 95-96: Tuition Scholarship, New School for Social Research
1996-97: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Grant, New School for Social Research

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Muhlenberg College, Department of Philosophy
2015-Present Associate Professor of Philosophy with tenure. Affiliations in Jewish
Studies, Sustainability Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies
2013-2018 Director of Women’s and Gender Studies
2011-2016 Asst. Dir. (2012-15) and Co-Dir. (2015-16), Faculty Center for Teaching
2012-2013 Associate Program Director, Center for Ethics
2010-2015 Assistant Professor of Philosophy
2009-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

2008-2009 West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Adjunct Teaching in Philosophy while relocating to the United States

2006-2008 Maternal leave in Germany

2004-2006 Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy
Institute for Philosophy, Technical University of Dresden
01069 Dresden, Germany

2002-2004 Lecturer and Academic Assistant
Institute for English and American Studies, Potsdam University
14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany

2000-2002 Doctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy (DAAD)
Institute for Philosophy, Potsdam University, 14195 Potsdam

1999-2000 Lecturer in College Seminar Program
Department of English, Bryn Mawr College
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101 North Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr PA 19010

1998-2000 Teaching Fellow in Philosophy
Department of Liberal Studies, Eugene Lang College
New School for Social Research, 65 West 11th Street, NY, NY 10011

VISITING POSITIONS
Spring 2014 Guest Lecturer, Stony Brook University-Manhattan
MA Program in Philosophy & Art. MA Course: “Temporality & Ethics”
387 Park Avenue S., New York, NY 10016

Summer 2010 Edna Hong Research Scholar, St. Olaf College
Research grant and residency to work on Kierkegaard monograph
Hong Kierkegaard Library, 1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN55057

January 2010 Visiting Research Scholar, Hong Kierkegaard Library
Received stipend and use of archives for monograph on Kierkegaard
St. Olaf College, 1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057

Winter 2003 Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy
Received stipend and residency for research project on Kierkegaard
Technical University of Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

Summer 2002 Resident in Research, Hong Kierkegaard Library
Received research grant and residency for completion of dissertation
St. Olaf College, 1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057

Summer 2000 Visiting Research Scholar, Institute of Philosophy
Received stipend and residency for research project on Kierkegaard
Technical University of Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

PUBLICATIONS (* indicates peer-reviewed)
Books
Sole-Authored Monographs
1. Morgan, Marcia. (2012): Kierkegaard and Critical Theory. Lanham MD: Rowman &
Littlefield/Lexington Books. *
“exceptionally insightful study […].” Peter E. Gordon, Adorno and Existence. Cambridge
MA: Harvard University Press, p. 27.

Edited Anthology with Contributed Chapter and Introduction
1. Morgan, Marcia and Megan Craig, eds. (2016): Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion
of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural. Foreword by George Yancy, Prologue by
Ed Casey, and Epilogue by Richard J. Bernstein. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield/
Lexington Books.*
“This book of trenchant essays in his honor, illustrates once again Bernstein's rich grasp of the
history of philosophy, its contemporary European versions, and the utter necessity of having a
rich, thick, enlightening, and necessary philosophical pluralism […] Gratitude here for the
scholars who have sharpened and elucidated Bernstein's stellar contributions to philosophical
wisdom over the past fifty years.”
John McDermott, Texas A&M University (endorsement on book cover)

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“Honoring Dick Bernstein (b. 1932), long-time professor of philosophy at New School for
Social Research, this collection is an excellent reminder to those who have benefited over many
years from Bernstein’s scholarship and publications, e.g., Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
(CH, May'84), Praxis and Action (CH, Jul'72), and critical appraisals of such figures as C. S.
Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Hannah Arendt, Hans Gadamer, and Jürgen Habermas. In
its own way each of the 11 essays explores what Bernstein called "engaged fallibilistic
pragmatism." The essays are presented under two headings: "Judgment and Critique" and
"Hermeneutics and History." The breadth of Bernstein’s philosophical grasp is well
demonstrated. But more significantly described is his character as a teacher promoting courage
to hold firm to particular commitments and encounter the truth through new questions and texts.
As Lauren Barthold puts it in her essay (“Acts of Betrayal: Gadamer and Hermeneutics”), “To
perpetuate a tradition and keep it alive requires one to be open to applying it anew and living it
out in different ways.” This volume properly celebrates Bernstein and his expansion of
American philosophy. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through
faculty.” (CHOICE, July 2017)

Edited Monograph with Contributed Essay
1. Heller, Ágnes. (2012): The Concept of the Beautiful, Edited with an
Essay by Marcia Morgan. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books.
“Those working in theological aesthetics may also find great value in its presentation,
particularly in the introductory essay by Morgan.”
Steven Oakey, Catholic Books Review (http://catholicbooksreview.org/2014/heller.html)

Journal Articles
1. Morgan, Marcia. (2017): “An Existential Ecofeminism and a Renewed Critical Theory of
Nature: An Imagined Dialogue between Simone de Beauvoir and Jürgen Habermas,”
Revista Idéias, eds. Mariana Teixeira & Raphael Concli (UNICAMP, São Paulo), vol. 8
(no. 1), 179-202.*
2. Morgan, Marcia. (2016): “The Affect of Dissident Language: A Possible Dialogue
between Theodor W. Adorno and Julia Kristeva,” Journal of French and Francophone
Philosophy, ed. Scott Davidson (University of Pittsburgh Press), vol. 24 (no. 1), 167-91.*
3. Morgan, Marcia. (2015): “Heller and Habermas in Dialogue: Intersubjective Liability and
Corporeal Injurability as Foundations of Ethical Subjectivity,” Revue Internationale de
Philosophie, ed. Michel Meyer (Brussels and Paris), no. 3, 303-20. *
4. Morgan, Marcia. (2014): “Transgression, Plurality, and the Romance of Philosophy,”
Journal of Speculative Philosophy, ed. John Stuhr (Penn State University Press), vol. 28,
no. 4, 537-51.*
5. Morgan, Marcia. (2014): "Heller's Either/Or: Continuing a Recent Debate Between
Richard J. Bernstein and Ágnes Heller," Thesis Eleven, ed. Andrea Vestrucci
(Melbourne), no. 125, 49-65. *
6. Morgan, Marcia. (2003): “Adorno's Reception of Kierkegaard: 1929-1933.” In: Søren
Kierkegaard Newsletter: A Publication of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard
Library, ed. Gordon Marino (Northfield MN) no. 46, St. Olaf College.

Book Chapters
1. Morgan, Marcia. (In Progress): “Reading Kierkegaard,” Blackwell Companion to
Adorno, eds. Peter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer, and Max Pensky. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-
Blackwell.*
2. Morgan, Marcia. (In Progress): “Adorno and Beckett: Aesthetic Mimēsis and ‘The
New’,” Benjamin, Adorno and the Experience of Literature (Routledge Studies in 20th
Century Philosophy), eds. Nathan Ross and Corey McCall.. New York and London:
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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.*
3. Morgan, Marcia. (In Progress): “Continental Feminism and the Environment,”
Continental Philosophy and the Environment, ed. Jonathan Maskit. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield International.*
4. Morgan, Marcia (2017): “Ágnes Heller and the Kantian Imaginary,” Critical Theories
and the Budapest School (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought), eds. John
Rundell and Jonathan Pickle. New York and London: Routledge Taylor & Francis.
5. Morgan, Marcia. (2016): “Critique, Dissidence, and Aesthetic Emancipation at the
Margins,” Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the
Plural, eds. Megan Craig and Marcia Morgan, ibid., pp. 83-102*
6. Craig, Megan and Marcia Morgan (2016): “Editors’ Introduction,” Richard J. Bernstein
and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural, ibid., pp. xix-xxxvi.
7. Morgan, Marcia. (2015): “The Benjaminian Moment in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory:
Spaciality and the Topos of the Bourgeois Intèrieur,” The Aesthetic Ground of Critical
Theory, ed. Nathan Ross. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield International, pp. 17-30. *
8. Morgan, Marcia and Karen Hiles. (2014): "Papageno: An Aesthetic Awakening of
Ethical Desire," Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, and Resources: A
Publication of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Volume 16: Kierkegaard's
Literary Figures and Motifs, ed. Jon Stewart. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, UK. *
9. Morgan Vahrmeyer, Marcia. (2006): “The Role of Music in Schleiermacher's and
Kierkegaard's Writings.” In: Schleiermacher und Kierkegaard: Subjektivität und
Wahrheit, eds. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Richard Crouter, Theodor Jorgensen. Berlin and
New York: Walter de Gruyter. *

Encyclopedia Articles
1. Morgan, Marcia. (2015): “Otherness, Alterity, and the Other,” Kierkegaard Research:
Sources, Reception, and Resources: A Publication of the Søren Kierkegaard Research
Centre, Volume 15: Kierkegaard's Concepts, Tome I: Philosophy, ed. Jon Stewart.
Aldershot, England: Ashgate. *
2. Morgan, Marcia. (2015): "Spirit," Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, and
Resources: A Publication of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Volume 15:
Kierkegaard's Concepts, Tome I: Philosophy, ed. Jon Stewart. Aldershot, England:
Ashgate. *

Book Reviews
1. Morgan, Marcia. (2015): “McCarthy, Vincent. The Phenomenology of Moods in
Kierkegaard (The Hague and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978),” Kierkegaard Research:
Sources, Reception, and Resources: A Publication of the Søren Kierkegaard Research
Centre, Volume 18: Secondary Literature, ed. Jon Stewart. Aldershot, England: Ashgate.
2. Morgan, Marcia. (2015): "Stan, Leo. Either Nothingness or Love (Saarbrücken,
Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009)" Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, and
Resources: A Publication of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Volume 18:
Secondary Literature, ed. Jon Stewart. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. *
3. Morgan, Marcia. (2015): "Matuštik, Martin and Merold Westphal (eds.). Kierkegaard in
Post/Modernity (Indianapolis and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)"
Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, and Resources: A Publication of the Søren
Kierkegaard Research Centre, Volume 18: Secondary Literature, ed. Jon Stewart.
Aldershot, England: Ashgate. *
4. Morgan, Marcia. (2013): Review essay on Arendt and Adorno: Political and
Philosophical Investigations, eds. Lars Rensmann and Samir Gandesha (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2012) in Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature, Bryn
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Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. *
5. Morgan, Marcia. (2012): Review of C. Stephen Evans, Kierkegaard: An Introduction
(Cambridge University Press, 2009) in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Vol. 32,
No. 1, New York. *
6. Morgan, Marcia. (2011): Review of Jon Stewart, Idealism and Existentialism: Hegel and
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Continuum, 2010) in Søren Kierkegaard
Newsletter: A Publication of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library, Winter
Volume 2011, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Published Conference Papers
1. Morgan, Marcia. (2012): “Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments, and Critical Theory,”
in Kierkegaard in Lisbon: Contemporary Readings of Repetition, Fear and Trembling,
Philosophical Fragments, and the 1843 and 1844 Upbuilding Discourses, eds. J. Justo
and E. de Sousa. Lisbon, Portugal: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa.
2. Morgan, Marcia. (1998): “Adorno's Aesthetic Emancipation: Against a Pragmatic
Critique.” In: Twentieth Century European Narratives: Traditions and Innovation.
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of
European Ideas (ISSEI), eds. Sascha and Ezra Talmor. Haifa, Israel: Haifa University.

Film Reviews
1. Morgan Vahrmeyer, Marcia. (2004): “Torture Chamber Choices: Review of 'Junta'
('Garage Olimpo', Written by Marco Bechis and Lara Fremder, 2003).” In: to kill, to die:
feminist contestations on gender and political violence, eds. Hilla Dayan and Laura
Balbuena-Gonzalez. New York, NY: Publication of the New School for Social Research.

Dictionary Entries
1. Morgan Vahrmeyer, Marcia. (2004): “David Sidorsky.” In: Dictionary of American
Philosophers, ed. John R. Shook. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum Press.

Translations (German to English)
1. Menke, Christoph. (2006): “Spirit and Life: A Genealogical Critique of the
Phenomenology,” trans. Marcia Morgan Vahrmeyer. In: Graduate Faculty Philosophy
Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, New York.
2. Rentsch, Thomas. (2004): “Practical Certainty—Beyond Dogmatism and Relativism:
Remarks on the Negativity and Autonomy of Language in Wittgenstein,” trans. Marcia
Morgan Vahrmeyer. In: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, New York.

EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2016 Reviewer of monographs, Duquesne University Press and Palgrave Macmillan
2016 Reviewer of articles, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Duke Univ. Press
2012 Reviewer of articles, Literature and Theology, Oxford University Press
2009-Present Editor and Translator of Agnes Heller's unpublished manuscripts
2004-06 Contributing Editor and Translator, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, NY.
2002-04 Translator, English and American Studies Department, Potsdam University
1999-2000 Editorial Assistant, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, New York
1997-2000 Research Assistant to Agnes Heller, New School for Social Research, NY

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED LECTURES
March 28, 2018: “Adorno Reading Kierkegaard,” Political Theology Group, American
Philosophical Association-Pacific Division, Annual Meeting, San Diego.
October 13, 2017: “Beyond the Good and Evil of Humanitarian Crisis: A Comparative Analysis
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of Budapest and Berlin,” Philosophy of the City Annual Conference, Faculty of Letters,
University of Porto, Portugal
June 23, 2017: “Rethinking Nature: The Relationship of Irigaray’s Works to Environmental
Philosophy, 8th Irigaray Circle Conference, University of Winchester, England.
April 27, 2017: “An Existential Ecofeminism and a Renewed Critical Theory of Nature,”
Keynote Lecture, Symposium “People for the Support of Women in Philosophy,”
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research, New York.
June 22, 2016: “Ágnes Heller and the Kantian Imaginary,” Conference on Lukács and Heller in
the Budapest School, Korean Cultural Center, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
April 29, 2016: “The Affect of Dissident Language: A Possible Dialogue between Adorno and
Kristeva,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Adorno Studies, University of Montreal
April 2, 2016: “Bodies at Borders: Post-secular Ethics and the European Union Refugee
Crisis,” Bodies in Negotiation: Rethinking Dangers and Pleasures in the 21st Century
Conference, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania
March 31, 2016: “Dissident Language and Aesthetic Emancipation at the Margins: A Dialogue
among Adorno, Kristeva and West,” Invited Lecture at the Graduate Faculty Philosophy
Department, New School for Social Research, New York
March 11, 2016: “An Existential Ecofeminism and a Renewed Critical Theory of Nature,”
Keynote Address, International Undergraduate and Graduate Philosophy Conference,
University of Windsor, Ontario
March 10, 2016: “The Affect of Dissident Language: A Possible Dialogue between Adorno and
Kristeva,” Visiting Speaker Series, Gradate Department of Philosophy, University of
Windsor, Ontario
October 8, 2015: “The Affect of Dissident Language: A Possible Dialogue between Adorno and
Kristeva,” 53th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta
October 3, 2015: “An Existential Ecofeminism and a Renewed Critical Theory of Nature,” 23rd
Annual Critical Theory Roundtable, Yale University, New Haven
July 23, 2015: “An Existential Ecofeminism and a Renewed Critical Theory of Nature,”
International Association of Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) Special Panel on
Continental Environmental Ethics, Annual Conference of the International Society of
Environmental Ethics (ISEE), Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany
October 23, 2014: “The Onto-Genesis of Ethical Subjectivity and Postsecular Authenticity,”
53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, New
Orleans
October 21, 2014: Guest Lecture on Nietzsche and Sartre, Existentialism Course
(Undergraduate), Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook
September 27, 2014: “The Critical Heritage of Kritik: Opening Remarks,” Symposium on
“Thinking the Plural: Richard J. Bernstein’s Contributions to American Philosophy,”
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook
May 24, 2014: “Vulnerability and Ethics: Intersubjective Liability and Corporeal Injurability: On
Communicative Freedom,” Annual Philosophy and the Social Sciences Conference,
Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
May 20, 2014: “On Communicative Authenticity,” Institute for Christian Philosophy, Faculty of
Catholic Theology, University of Vienna, Austria
May 2, 2014: “Heller and Habermas in Dialogue: Intersubjective Liability and Corporeal
Injurability,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Conference, Graduate Department of
Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York
April 24, 2014: “Heller’s Either/Or: Or, What Makes a Person Choose the Ethical,” Hale Ethics
Series, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
April 3, 2014: “Transgression, Plurality, and the Romance of Philosophy,” Crossings, Hybrids,
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Genres, Conference of the American Philosophies Forum, Co-sponsored by Emory
University and Stony Brook Manhattan, New York
October 27, 2011: "Kierkegaard, Marcuse, and Matuštík: Radical Existential Praxis," 4th
Biennial Conference of the International Marcuse Society, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
May 5, 2011: “Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments, and Critical Theory,”
Project on the Translation of Kierkegaard's Works 1938-44, Kierkegaard's Philosophical
Fragments, Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
July 1, 2010: "Kierkegaard, Frankfurt, and Freedom," Commentary to Anthony Rudd,
Sixth International Kierkegaard Conference, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf
College, Northfield, Minnesota
June 29, 2010: “Kierkegaard and Critical Theory Today,” Sixth International Kierkegaard
Conference, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield
November 6, 2009: “Kierkegaard: Poetic Constructions of the Self,” Invited Lecture for Prof.
Roy Brand's Course, “Allegories of the Self: The Construction of Modern Subjectivity,”
Department of Philosophy, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
April 4, 2009: Commentary to “In Defence of Disinterestedness” by Thomas Hilgers, American
Society of Aesthetics, Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia
October 10, 2004: “The Role of Music in Scheiermacher's and Kierkegaard's Writings,” Søren
Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
April 9, 2003: “The Politics of Style: Adorno's Destruction of Kierkegaardian Pseudonymity,”
The Politics of Language International Conference, New School for Social Research, NY
March 4, 2000: “The Aesthetic-Religious Nexus in Adorno's Interpretation of Kierkegaard,”
Essex 6th International Graduate Conference, University of Essex, England
April 23, 1999: “Dialectical Recollection of Mass Taste: On Komar and Melamid's 'The People's
Choice Music',” Educational Lecture Series, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY
November 6, 1998: “The Concept of Mimesis in Adorno's Aesthetics,” American Society for
Aesthetics National Meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
November 18, 1998: “Technology and Issues of the Body in Mass Art,” Merit Fellowship
Lecture Series, Long Island University, New York
August 18, 1998: “Adorno's Aesthetic Emancipation: Against a Pragmatic Critique,”
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa University, Israel

REGIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANEL PRESENTATIONS
September 10, 2014: “On Walter Mignolo’s Epistemic Disobedience,” Guest Lecture in
the Dana Scholarship Senior Research Forum, Muhlenberg College
April 3, 2013: “Hume, Adorno, and Musical Taste,” Student-Professor Collaborative Paper with
John Zeitoun, Social Research Social Justice Conference, Muhlenberg College
April 13, 2012: “Arendtian Action in Art,” Student-Professor Collaborative Paper with Matt
Dicken, Social Research Social Justice Conference, Muhlenberg College
March 12, 2013: Panel Speaker, “What is Feminism?” Feminist Collective Women’s Week
Event, Muhlenberg College
February 21, 2013: “Writing the Philosophy Paper,” Presentation to the Writing Program Faculty
and Tutors, Facilitated by Writing Program Committee, Muhlenberg College
January 25, 2012: “What Does Social Justice Mean?” Panel Speaker, Social Justice
Collaborative Event for Martin Luther King, Jr. Week, Muhlenberg College
April 15, 2011: Invited Commentator in "Introduction to History: Nazi in Popular Imagination,"
Department of History, Muhlenberg College
April 11, 2011: "On Kierkegaard and Comedy," Invited Lecture in Seminar on
Comedy, Department of English, Muhlenberg College
March 28, 2011: "Kant's Incongruity Theory," Invited Lecture in Seminar on Comedy,
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Department of English, Muhlenberg College
October 5, 2011: "Nonsense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus," Invited Lecture in David
Rosenwasser's Course, "Reading Alice," Department of English, Muhlenberg
September 26, 2011: "On Hegel," Invited Lecture in Christine Sistare's Course, "Political
Philosophy," Department of Philosophy, Muhlenberg
September 22, 2011: "The Battle between Memory and Forgetting," Guest Lecture in Dana
Forum, Senior Research Forum, Muhlenberg College
September 6, 2010: “Beauty,” Guest Lecture in Dana Forum, Senior Research Forum
April 7, 2010: “The Meaning of Working through the Past, or Politics in the Effort to Forget:
Berlin, the Holocaust, and Memorialization,” Faculty Humanities Seminar Presentation,
Muhlenberg College

COURSES TAUGHT
Muhlenberg College
PHL 970: Existentialism (directed study, philosophy major seminar), Spring 2014, Spring 2012
PHL 520: Hegelian Dialectics: Interpretations and Applications (senior seminar), Spring 2015
PHL 519: Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (senior seminar), Spring 2013
PHL 325: Nineteenth Century Philosophy (undergraduate advanced lecture), Spring 2018, Spring
2014, Fall 2012, Fall 2010
PHL 287: Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy (undergraduate lecture), Spring 2010
PHL 246: Environmental Philosophy (undergraduate lecture, cross-listed in Sustainability
Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies), Spring 2018, Spring 2016
PHL 229: Phenomenology (undergraduate lecture, cross-listed in Neuroscience and Theatre),
Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2011
PHL 227: Philosophy of Feminism (undergraduate lecture, cross-listed in Women’s and
Gender Studies, Sustainability Studies and Muhlenberg Scholars Program), Spring 2017,
Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2011
PHL 226: American Philosophy (undergraduate lecture), Fall 2017
PHL 236: Philosophy & the Arts (undergraduate lecture, cross-listed in Theatre), every semester
from Fall 2009 to Spring 2018
PHL 102: Theories of Human Nature (undergraduate lecture, cross-listed in Jewish Studies
and Philosophy & Political Thought Program), Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2011, Fall
2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009
DNA 117: The Politics of Memory (Dana Scholars First Year Writing Seminar), Fall 2014,
Fall 2013
FYS 115: The Politics of Memory (First Year Writing Seminar), Fall 2012, Fall 2011
WST 180: Gender and Art (undergraduate lecture), Spring 2017
WST 202: Topics in Women’s & Gender Studies: Transnational and Global Feminisms
(undergraduate core lecture course in WST), Spring 2017, Fall 2015

Stony Brook University-Manhattan, New York
Temporality and Ethics (Graduate Seminar in the Philosophy & Art M.A. program, 10 students)

Potsdam University, Germany
Aesthetics of African-American Music and Literature (Undergraduate Lecture, 50 students)
Introduction to Literary Theory (Undergraduate Lecture, 65 students)
Literature and Society (Undergraduate Lecture, 40 students)

Eugene Lang College, New School for Liberal Studies, New York
Modern Aesthetics (Undergraduate Seminar, approximately 15 students)
The Language of Music ((Undergraduate Seminar, 15 students)
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Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics (Undergraduate Seminar, 10 students)

Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Writing Across the Disciplines: The Principle of Hope (First Year Writing Seminar, 15 students)
Writing Across the Disciplines: Hate and Love (First Year Writing Seminar, 15 students)

Long Island University, New York
Human Values (Undergraduate Lecture, 30 students)
Beginning Philosophy (Undergraduate Lecture, 30 students)

State University of New York (SUNY)- Suffolk, New York
Sexism and the Humanities (Undergraduate Lecture, 30 students)
Introduction to Philosophy (Undergraduate Lecture, 30 students)

INDEPENDENT STUDIES TAUGHT AT MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
Postsecular Feminism and Humanitarian Crisis, Fall 2016
The Invisibility of Racialized Whiteness, Fall 2015
The Will to Power: Nietzsche, Foucault, Butler, Fall 2014
Phenomenology of Color, Spring 2014
Existentialism, Spring 2014
Discourse and Democracy, Fall 2013
Modern Musical Aesthetics, Spring 2013
Philosophy of Music, Fall 2012
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger (Dana and Muhlenberg Scholars) Spring 2012
Arendtian Action in Art (Dana Scholar Directed Study), Spring 2012
Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences (Muhlenberg Scholar Directed Study), Fall 2011

HONORS THESIS SUPERVISION AT MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
Spring 2016: David Kamins, “Phenomenology and Dialectics in the Philosophy of George
Yancy,” Advisor for Philosophy Honors
Spring 2015: Morgan P. Smith, “Discursive Subjectivity and the Process of Self-Overcoming
in Foucault and Butler,” Advisor for Philosophy Honors
Spring 2014: Cyrus Kuschner, “Kierkegaard, Self-Authorship, and the Ethics of
Epigenetics,” Advisor for Philosophy Honors
Spring 2014: Andrew Wolfe, “The Phenomenology of Color in Impressionist Painting,”
Advisor for Philosophy Honors
Spring 2011: Ethan Simon, “A Kierkegaardian Critique of Organized Religion,”
Advisor for Philosophy Honors

SERVICE
To the Profession
Moderator of Panel, “Adorno: Reason, Prejudice & Neoliberalism,” Annual Conference,
Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, October 2017.
Moderator of Panel, “Hegel,” 4th Annual Lehigh Philosophy Conference, October 27,
2016, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
Organizer of Conference, Muhlenberg College, The Second Annual ‘Thinking the
Plural’ Richard J. Bernstein Symposium, “Feminism & Pluralism,” Allentown
PA, September 25, 2015
Co-Organizer of Conference, Stony Brook University, “Thinking the Plural: Richard J.
Bernstein’s Contributions to American Philosophy,” Stony Brook, New York,
September 26-27, 2014
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