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Marcia Morgan Vitae Page 1 MARCIA S. MORGAN MARCIA S. MORGAN Department of Philosophy, Muhlenberg College 2400 Chew Street, Allentown PA 18104 Email: [email protected] https://www.muhlenberg.edu/main/academics/philosophy/ourfaculty/marciamorgan/ AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Ethics, including Applied Ethics. Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics. 19th-20th century Continental and American philosophy. AREAS OF CONCENTRATION Phenomenology and German Idealism (Kant and Hegel) 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 Mimêsis 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 From Muhlenberg College 2018-19: Donald B. Hoffman Research Fellowship (full academic year) 2017: Bridge Builder Award (for inclusive teaching) 2016: Paul C. Empie ’29 Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, and 2011: Summer Research Grant (eight weeks) 2018, 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: Year-Long Grant for WST Forum: “Freedom, Personhood, and Justice” 2011: RJ Fellows Course Development Grant 2010: Humanities Seminar Grant, Muhlenberg College’ From Other Institutions 2011: Invited Lecturer Grant, Center of Philosophy, University of Lisbon, Portugal 2010: Edna Hong Research Scholarship, Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota 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. Affiliate Faculty Member in Jewish Studies, Sustainability Studies, and Women’s & Gender Studies 2020- Co-Director, Philosophy/Political Thought Program 2020-2021 Program Director, Center for Ethics 2013-2018 Director of Women’s and Gender Studies 2011-2016 Asst. Director (‘11-15), Co-Director (’15-’16), 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 (and Translator) 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 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 Monographs 1. Morgan, Marcia. (2020): Care Ethics and the Refugee Crisis: Emotions, Contestation, and Agency (Routledge Research in Applied Ethics). London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis.* Reviewed as “Key Work” in the PhilPapers Foundation entry on the history of philosophy of immigration: https://philpapers.org/browse/immigration Chapter included in Sustainable Development Goals Online: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/sdgo/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=EmailStudio&utm_camp aign=SDGO_3301117 Discussed at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/marcia-morgan 2. Morgan, Marcia. (2012): Kierkegaard and Critical Theory. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books.* Reviewed in Peter E. Gordon, Adorno and Existence (Harvard University Press, 2016): “exceptionally insightful study,” 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 Edward S. Casey, and Epilogue by Richard J. Bernstein. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield/ Lexington Books.* Published in Paperback May 2019. Reviewed in CHOICE (July 2017): Recommended Reviewed in Transactions of the Charles Peirce Society (Fall 2019): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/751299 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. Reviewed in Catholic Books Review, 2014: http://catholicbooksreview.org/2014/heller.html “Those working in theological aesthetics may also find great value in its presentation, particularly in the introductory essay by Morgan.” 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 (São Paulo), vol. 7 (no. 2).* 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), 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),
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