Kathleen J. Wininger curriculum vitae
P. O. Box 24 Department of Philosophy South Freeport, ME 04078-0024 USA University of Southern Maine E-Mail: [email protected] Portland, ME 04104-9300 USA Telephone: 207.780.4928 Work FAX: 207.780.4226
Ph. D. Temple University, Department of Philosophy (August, 1988) Dissertation Director: Joseph Margolis, Dissertation Committee: Alexander Nehamas, John Fisher, John Atwell
B.A. Southern Connecticut State University Majors: Philosophy and Art History additional undergraduate work in Philosophy at Yale University and in Art History in Austria, Bavaria, and Italy
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: AOS: Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Film AOC: Social Justice and Ethics, Feminism, African Philosophy
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker and Kathleen J. Wininger. 4th edition, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2009, 516 pages. ISBN-10: 1591026091, ISBN-13: 978-1591026099
Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker, Kathleen J. Wininger, and Frederick A. Elliston. 3rd edition, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1998. 671 pages. [67 books cite this book 2009] ISBN-10: 157392184X, ISBN-13: 978-1573921848
Nietzsche’s Reclamation of Philosophy, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 1997. In the “Central-European Value Studies” series under the editorship of Professor H. G. Callaway, University of Mainz, Germany. ISBN-10: 9042003839, ISBN-13: 978-9042003835
ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS:
"The Slippery Slopes of Pornography,” Sex, Love, and Friendship. Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love. Edited by Adrianne Leigh McEvoy. Amsterdam/New York, NY 2011. XVI, 552 pp. (Value Inquiry Book Series 232). ISBN: 978-90-420-3368-9
“The ‘Pinnacle of his Spirit’: Nietzsche and the Erotic” Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love http://www.philosophyofsexandlove.org/EventsPapers/WinningerNietzsche.pdf
“Disabled People,” “Iris Marion Young,” and “Postcolonialism.” "1000 words," "1000 words," "1500 words," respectively. Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Deen Chatterjee, ed. Springer, 1st Edition, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4020-9161-22011
“On Spinsters,” and “To Cut or Not to Cut” and Introduction in Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker and Kathleen J. Wininger. 4th edition, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2009. pp.103-116, pp. 412- 416.
EDITORIAL WORK: advisor to the Editor of Journal of Gender Studies - a Nigerian multi-disciplinary annual publication, edited by Chioma Opara, 2001-2008.
"Nietzsche." In Alan Soble, ed., Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005, (3,000 words, pp. 711-718).
"Incorporating Gender Issues from African Philosophy in the Law" included in the Workbook for the SEARLW Women’s Law Program. July, 2004. pp. 9-12. Selected papers.
Forward to Chinyere Okafor’s pamphlet “Season’s of Maine: One Year of an African Woman” 2002, 1 page.
“Following African Identity in Bessie Head: An Exile’s Philosophical Journey” Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Women in Higher Education, edited by Diane M. Calhoun-French, Dean of Academic Affairs. 2002. pp. 13-24. Selected papers.
“Ida B. Wells," 500 word entry. Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914. Edited by John Powell and Derek Blakeley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
“Friedrich Nietzsche," 850 word entry. Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914. Edited by John Powell and Derek Blakeley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
"Fictions And Spectacles: Neo Colonial Images Of African Women" in the Special Edition On Bessie Head’s Work in Marang: Language Literature And Society: A Southern African Journal, Edited By Leloba Molema, pp 153-161, 2000. Refereed
“Nietzsche’s Women and Women’s Nietzsche” in Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall in the Re-Reading the Canon series: University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. pp. 236-251. Invited paper.
“Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals” in the Classics Revisited feature of The Journal of Value Inquiry, 30: 453-470 (September 1996) . refereed
“Steven Spielberg’s Version of the Color Purple” Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts Newsletter. Vol. I, no. 2, September 1994. Selected papers.
“Reclaiming Nietzsche for Philosophy” in Religious Humanism, vol. XXVIII, no. 3., Summer, 1994, pp 127- 138. Refereed
“The Context of Meanings behind Rape Trauma," by Cathy Winkler with Renata McMullen and Kate Wininger. In Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations. ed. Nicole Sault. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
"Rape Trauma: Contexts of Meaning," by Cathy Winkler with Kate Wininger in Embodiment of Knowledge, ed. T. Csordas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
"African Philosophy: Two Views" in Philosophy, Humanity, and Ecology: Philosophy of Nature and Environmental Ethics. vol. 1. edited by Prof. H. Odera Oruka. Nairobi, Kenya: ACT Press, 1994. pp 198-207.
"The Consequences of Consequentialism," The Journal of Value Inquiry, 20: 327-332. 1986. Refereed
BOOK/REVIEWS/POPULAR PRESS:
Book Review (commissioned) Introducing Philosophy through Film: Key Texts, Discussion, and Film Selections ed. by Richard Fumerton and Diane Jeske for Teaching Philosophy, ed. by David Boersema Volume 34, Number 3, September 2011
Book Review (commissioned) of Christine Battersby’s The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference. Routledge Tayor & Francis for Hypatia, commissioned. forthcoming 2010.
Book Review of H. G. Callaway’s new edition of R. W. Emerson, The Conduct of Life, A Philosophical Reading. University Press of America, Lanham MD, 2006. forthcoming 2011.
Book Review of A Daughter of Isis: the Autobiography of Nawal el Saadawi for African Studies Quarterly. vol. 4 no. 2, Fall, 2000 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v4/v4i2a11.htm
“The Art of Reconciling Motherhood and Philosophy” in The Dissident: Maine’s Journal of Politics and Culture. November, 1999. http://www.maineprogressive.org/111999/reconcil.htm
“The Value of Art” in The Dissident: Maine’s Journal of Politics and Culture. July, 1999 http://www.maineprogressive.org/071999/wininger.htm
Book Review of Disputed Subjects: Essays on Psychoanalysis, Politics and Philosophy by Jane Flax for Canadian Philosophical Reviews. Vol. XIV, no. 6., December, 1994.
Book Review The Disputed Nietzsche: My Sister and I, by Friedrich Nietzsche. This is a review article written at the invitation of Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought. No. 91. Spring, 1992, pp. 185-189.
Book Review of The Construction of Homosexuality by David Greenberg in Contemporary Crises: Law, Crime and Social Policy, vol. 14, 1990.
ACADEMIC HONORS:
“Kathleen MacPherson Outstanding Feminist Faculty Award,” 2008
University of Southern Maine, “Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Service to the Humanities Division,” 2005 http://www.usm.maine.edu/facsen/fsawards/awards2005.htm
Center for Teaching Grant: Awarded for student development, 1998
Maine Humanities Council Grant, Awarded for conference on Somalia, Spring 1993
Women's Studies Research and Travel Award 1991, 1992
Special Language Scholarship (DAAD) Goethe Institut: Boppard, Germany
Connecticut State Scholarship to attend Yale University
Summer Study Scholarship Award to study Art History in Austria
Dean's List: Junior and Senior year Southern Connecticut State University
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH, PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
“African Sustainability: Agriculture as Metaphor and Survival in the writings of Bessie Head and Wangari Maathai,” at the African Literature Association Conference 2010 in Athens, OH (USA) at Ohio University April 13-17, 2011.
Chair and Commentator, Concerned Philosophers for Peace, American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA Dec. 2010
Research on resistance to German Colonialism, and the role of photography in reading resistance. Windhoek, Namibia State Archives and at April, 2010
“Teaching Gender in African Philosophy, Film, and Literature” at the African Literature Association Conference 2010 in Tuscon, AZ (USA) at the University of Arizona, 14 March 2010.
“Thought With A Sense Of Place: Teaching Gender in African Philosophy, Film, and Literature,” in panel session: Teaching Literature, Culture, Film, and Philosophy. A panel which I organized for the 35th annual conference of the African Literature Association to be held at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont USA, 15-19 April 2009.
Speaker: Kathleen Wininger (University of Southern Maine) “The ‘Pinnacle of his Spirit’: Nietzsche and the Erotic” Commentator: Maudemarie Clark (Colgate University) Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love 9:00-11:00 a.m. , American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Philadelphia, PA December 27 - 30, 2008 http://www.philosophyofsexandlove.org/papers.php
“African Humanism, Citizenship, and a Sense of Belonging in the Writings of Bessie Head” paper presented in the panel “Cultural Violence against Women in the context of national politics and economic globalization” at The African Studies Association, 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting, 21st Century Africa: Evolving Conceptions of Human Rights, at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York, NY on October 18-21, 2007.
Chair, conference “Forging the Local and the Global” 9-12 July 2006 Stellenbosch University, South Africa July 2006
Research on Gender in German Colonialism. Windhoek, Namibia State Archives and at Swakopmund Samuel Cohen Library June- July 2006
“White Feminists approach Africa: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” African Literature Association, 32nd Annual Meeting & Conference, Accra-GHANA - May 17-21, 2006
“SWIP ORGANIZATION Solidarity, Cooperation, and Truth: What Divides Us and What Unites Us” Invited paper. The topic of the session was: “Philosophy at Global Crossroads: How Can philosophers Make a Difference?” the Conference on Philosophical Societies(CoPS) at the American Philosophical Association, December 28th 2005 in NYC.
“The ‘Pinnacle of his Spirit’: Nietzsche and the Erotic,” 62nd Annual Meeting of the Maine Philosophical Institute, at the University of Southern Maine, 7th Floor of the Glickman Library, May 7, 2005
“Following African Identity an Exile’s Philosophical Journey” in the panel “Africa in Stasis: The Calcification of African Literature due to Selective Publication. “ April 6-10, 2005 at the African Literature Association, Millennium Harvest Hotel, Boulder, Colorado. The conference theme is "Beyond the Printed Word: African Literatures, African Cultures."
Chair, Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Topic: Iraq and the War on Terror: an Update APA Eastern Division Meeting, in Boston, December 27-30, 2004
“Dreams of Wholeness and the Limitations of the Self in Bessie Head, ” Gender and the Power of Expression Gendered approaches to the study of identity, language, and memory are particularly compelling in this age of globalization. November 11-14, 2004 African Studies Association “The Power of Expression: Identity, Language and Memory in Africa and the Diaspora” at the Marriott Hotel in New Orleans, LA.
"Incorporating Gender Issues from African Philosophy in the Law" University of Zimbabwe’s Searcl: Southern and Eastern African Regional Center for Women's Law Conference, Victoria Falls and Harare, ZIMBABWE. June 27- July 21st 2004
“Gestures of Belonging: Reflections on Exile, Place, and Hope,” African Literature Association, 30th Anniversary Conference, 14-18 April 2004, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Slippery Slopes of Pornography" at the "Author Meets Critics" session of the American Philosophical Association. The paper was a commentary on the book Pornography, Sex, and Feminism by Alan Soble Dec 26-30 2002, American Philosophical Association Philadelphia
“Approaching African Identity in Bessie Head: ‘A Sense of Wovenness, of Wholeness.’” given at the 3rd WAAD Conference, of the Association of African Women Scholars. October, 2001 Antananarivo, Madagascar.
“Issues of Identity in Bessie Head” Feminist Utopias Conference New College - Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. November 9-12th, 2001.
"Thinking African Identity: “Brokenness & the Construction of Self in Bessie Head," Women of African Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora at Southern Connecticut State University October 6-7, 2000
“Following African Identity in Bessie Head: An Exile’s Philosophical Journey” presented at the 13th Annual International Conference on Women in Higher Education by National Association for Women in Higher Education, New Orleans January 8-11, 2000
Chair, session on “Passing” American Philosophical Association session Boston, MA December 1999
“Dangerous Images: Neo Colonial Images in Tourist Art.” 2nd WAAD Conference, Women from African and the African Diaspora: Health and Human Rights. Association of African Women Scholars October 22- 27, 1998 Indianapolis, Indiana
“Neo-Colonial Aesthetics: Images of Women” at the Demanding Equal Station Conference: the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, Portland, Maine. Oct. 15- 18th, 1998
Chair, 8th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers Lessons from the Gynaeceum: Women Philosophizing: Past, Present and Future, Boston University, Boston August 6-10, 1998
"Fictions and Spectacles: Neo Colonial Images of African Women." at the Language, Literature, Society: Paradigms & Pedagogies in Honor of Bessie Head in Gaborone, Botswana. June 16-20, 1998
Invited keynote speaker during Women’s History Month “Women Appropriated, Women Appropriating a Neo Colonial Encounter” Trinity College in Washington, DC, March 30th, 1998
“Feminist Pedagogy” paper delivered at 12th Annual Maine Women’s Studies Conference at Bates College, November 15th, 1997
“White Women Teaching about African and African American Writers” paper at the Inclusive and Interdisciplinary National Conference, Portland, Maine. September, 1997
“Neo-Colonial Aesthetics: Images of Women” at the invitation of the Women’s Studies Department and International Studies Program at Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. April 8th, 1997
"Women Appropriating and Women Appropriated: A Neo-Colonial Encounter" at the Society for Women in Philosophy Conference at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. April 5th, 1997.
"Women Appropriating and Women Appropriated: A Neo-Colonial Encounter” presented at The Pan-African Symposium: Problematics of an African Philosophy: Twenty Years after (1976-1996) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. December. 1996
“Nietzsche’s Views of Women” invited paper presented to the University of Nairobi faculty and graduate students Nairobi, Kenya Fall, 1996.
“We Came, We saw, We Bought: Tourism and the Material Appropriation of Culture” at the XIV World Conference of World Futures Studies Federation. Kenyan National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya. July 25th-29th, 1995.
“Art, Æsthetics and the Sensual,” invited lecture at the Maine College of Art in their conference What is Art: a Symposium on Art and Culture Portland, Maine. Feb. 2, 1995
"Learning to Love: Nietzsche, Art, and Culture" at the 51st Meeting of the Maine Philosophical Institute. Bowdoin College, Maine April 23rd, 1994
“Spielberg’s Version of The Color Purple” presented at the Popular Culture Association Meetings, Chicago, IL April 6-9, 1994
“Nietzsche’s Women and Women’s Nietzsche” invited paper presented at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY March, 1994
"Learning to Love: Nietzsche, Art, and Culture" presented to the International Society for Value Inquiry at the World Philosophy Congress Moscow, Russia. August, 1993.
"Philosophical Commentary on Rape” paper in a session on ‘Discourses of Rape’. The Society for Women in Philosophy Conference on Florida, March 20th, 1993.
"Nietzsche and Pathology" invited paper given at Earlham College. Richmond, IN February 17th, 1993.
"African Foreign Study Programs: Philosophy in a Multicultural Context." Presented at the American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC. December 28th, 1992.
"Nietzsche and the Figure of Women." Moderator for the panel at meeting of the Society for the Study of Phenomenology and Existentialism. October 8th, 1992.
"Nietzsche, Wedekind and Pabst: Modernism in Film" Seminar Faculty member for “Changing Visions: Early Twentieth-Century Modernism on American Art and Culture”. Lectures on the Conception of Modernity. April 27 and 29th, 1992.
"African Views of Western Discourse and Representation” presented at the World Congress of Philosophy in Nairobi, Kenya July, 1991. I also organized a session of presentations on Women and African Philosophy.
"Women and Creativity." Participant on an international panel organized by Mona Abousema of Egypt held in at the World Congress of Philosophy, Nairobi, Kenya. July, 1991
"In a Really Different Voice: Stylistic Variation and Issues of Philosophical Legitimacy," Presented at the Eastern Division. of the Society For Women in Philosophy. Portland, Maine, April, 1991.
“Liberating Images/ Oppressed Lives: A Humanities Forum Panel.” I was a participant with director Sheila McLauglin on her film “She Must be Seeing Things.” Portland Museum of Art, Maine. May, 1990.
"The Spectacle of the 'Other'," presented at Bowdoin College, April, 1990.
Chair, "The Categories of Gender," at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Society for Women in Philosophy in Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1989.
"African Philosophy: The View from Inside, the View from Outside," invited paper presented at Randolph- Macon College, Fall, 1988.
"Love and Art: Nietzsche's View of Value Change" Presented at Holy Cross College at the Society for Women in Philosophy Conference, New York, Fall 1988.
Panel participant honoring Elizabeth Lane Beardsley's work in Moral Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Meeting in New York City. December, 1985
"Women and Philosophy," invited paper Fall 1985, Union College. Schenectady, NY.
"Women's Lives: Theory and Practice," invited paper at Villanova University ‘Talk of the Times’ lecture series, Fall 1984.
“Racism and Classism," moderator, After the Second Sex: New Directions, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. April 1984.
"Nietzsche and Genealogy: Something for the Industrious," Eastern Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy, Mount Saint Mary College, NY. Fall 1983.
“Jeremy Bentham and the Consequences of Consequentialism," presented at the Society for Women in Philosophy Conference at Drew University, Spring, 1982.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS:
International Society of African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on April 17-20, 2011.
The Fifth independent conference for the Hannah Arendt Circle, hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Don Shula Program in Philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland Ohio, April 8-10, 2011.
“Girl’s Culture & Girl’s Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood,” 18th Annual Women’s Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, October 17-19, 2008
Buddhist study and meditation with Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh, Estes Park, Colorado August 21- 26, 2007.
Popular Culture Association Meeting, Boston, MA April 5th-8th, 2007
“Feminist Locations” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference. Savannah, GA, March 25- 27, 2004
African Studies Association meeting Boston, MA 2003
“Women and the Environment,” Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, October 4th and 5th 2002
Association of American Colleges and Universities, “Boundaries and Borderlands III: The Search for Recognition and Community in America," 11 day Summer Institute, Brown University. Training to be a resource for USM faculty in Diversity and Multicultural Issues, July 13-23, 2000
National Women’s Studies Association, Simmons College, Boston, June, 2000
Maine Philosophical Association, April 29, 2000 Bowdoin College
“Global Justice/Women’s Rights” Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT October 1st, 2nd 1999
“Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity,” Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, August 11-16, 1998
“Understanding Dynamic of Contemporary Africa: Beyond the Stereotypes & Images" October 17-19, 1997, Host Institution: Africa Studies Center, Office for International Students and Scholars, and Office of Study Abroad, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
“What is Philosophy?” Conference at Yale University April, 1998. This conference brought six eminent scholars together in the discipline in order to discuss the definition and future of the discipline.
Midwest Faculty Seminar Participant (University of Chicago): "Self and its Representations: Constituting the Self: Prose, Painting & Poetry" May, 1988 "Discourse of Gender," March, 1987. "Cognitive Strategies and Writing," May, 1986. "Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations," 1985.
USM & UMS Talks, Workshops and Conferences:
February 1st, 2011 Organizer, Chair and panelist "Disability, Identity, Community: Feminist Perspectives" in Rm LB 241. Panelists were: Kate Wininger (Philosophy), Brenda Schertz (Linguistics) , James Melanson (WGS major)
Friday, Dec 3rd, 2010 1-2:30 PM in 423-424 Glickman Library, Portland The topic will be "e-Books and e-Textbooks." The panel of presenters will include Casandra Fitzherbert, Head of Library Acquisition Services, Jeff Beaudry and Lynne Miller who are now involved in writing an e- textbook, and a USM faculty member currently using eBooks.
May 26-28th 2010, “Race, Gender and Class in the Intentional Mining Community Kolmanskop, German South West Africa” at UMS Consortium Women’s Studies Conference, Oakland, ME.
December 4th, 2009. 5pm. Talk “on Spinsters” and Book Signing party for my book Philosophy and Sex, 4th edition.
April 23rd , 2009 Nietzsche Night panel for Philosophy Symposium 6:45pm and faculty Professors Louden, Wininger, and Read in room 302 Luther Bonney.
October 29th, 2008 Lecture “Subverting Gender Representations” (panel) Professors Donna Cassidy (Art History) and Kathleen J. Wininger (Philosophy) will discuss the context of the emergence of the feminist art movement in the 1970s and how it challenged the assumptions of art practice and the discipline of art history. They will explore how feminist artists brought new subjects and concerns to the visual arts in works like Womanhouse (1971) and Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party (1979) and used their art to make visible the history of women’s art in the West. They will also consider the more activist art of the Guerrilla Girls, by screening the short video Guerrillas in Our Midst, and discuss the place of women and other excluded people in the art world of the early 21st century. The talks will also explore contemporary art responses to Gender and Art History.
September 17, 2008 WAGS Programming organizer. Cut (film) Ellen Gurney, a clinical social worker with a local private practice, facilitated the discussion.
2006 Wednesday, April 5 Panel discussion and reception, "Women, Art, and War," with artists Patricia Winer, Natasha Mayers, and Associate Professor of Philosophy Kate Wininger in conjunction with Winer's exhibition "American Faces, Arab Names" (see above), 7 p.m., 7th Floor, Glickman Family Library, Portland, free and open to the public, 780-4289.
Participant in Summer Seminar Alumnus, "Advanced Sentence Stylistics." 7th floor of the Glickman Library on Friday, November 3rd 2006 from 1:00 to 3:00 .
January 24, 2006, Blackboard Workshop, Center for Teaching, 518 Glickman Library
October 21-22, 2005 Teaching for Sustainability, Casco Bay Project . Two day workshop about integrating sustainable development into course design and other scholarly activities.
May 19th, 2005 “Nietzsche: Sex Feast or Erotic Morality” USM Women’s Studies Conference, Newagen Inn. Boothbay Harbor.
Panelist at the morning session of The Provost’s Seminar Writing Conference sponsored by THE CENTER FOR TEACHING and THE PROVOST’S SUMMER WRITING SEMINAR. Afternoon Workshops attended: Ann Dean’s “What is good writing” & Nancy Gish’s “Ancient and Modern Uses of Rhetoric,” March 18, 2005
Faculty workshop sponsored by Women’s Studies and CAS with Nawal El Saadawi and Sherif Hetata and Libra lecture series Feb., 2003 - Dec 1, 2003 The Libra Committee Sponsored talks: Globalization, Fundamentalism, & Gender Thursday, March 20th evening 7-8:30 Luther Bonney Auditorium The Libra Committee in conjunction with the Honors Program bring you: "World Social Forum and Peace." the evening of Friday, April 11th at 6pm in Campus Center ABC "Creativity, Politics, and Gender." Thursday, April 24th, evening 7-8:30, Luther Bonney Auditorium Nawal el Saadawi and Sherif Hetata, Oct 22nd 2003 Nawal el Saadawi and Sherif Hetata on The New African Diaspora Friday, November 7, 2003, 7:00-8:30PM, Function Room Nawal el Saadawi and Sherif Hetata December, 2004 Panel discussion on "Scandalous Eyes" exhibit, featuring USM faculty members Frank Carner, Donna Cassidy, Maureen Elgersman Lee, J. Mark Scearce, and Kathleen Wininger, moderated by Art Exhibitions Director Carolyn Eyler, 5:30-7 p.m. February 4, 2003 Faculty workshop On Internationalizing the Curriculum sponsored by Women’s Studies with Amy Tsanga, January, March, April 2002 Chinyere Okafor’s FACULTY SEMINAR ON GENDER, RACE, & PEDAGOGY 1st Seminar: DEFINING THE PROBLEM (S) OF GENDER, RACE, & PEDAGOGY Can we rethink concepts and create new understanding? Can we begin a process of reevaluation and adjustment to diversity? Date: Friday, 9/27/02 Place: 509 Luther Bonney, USM Portland Campus. 2nd Seminar: STRATEGIES FOR THE CURRICULUM & CLASSROOM How can we create and manage a gender and race-friendly classroom? Course selection and design with possibilities Date: Friday, 10/18/02 Place: 524 Luther Bonney, USM Portland Campus. 3rd Seminar: MULTIPLE CENTERS AND PERSPECTIVES Let us hear from, not about, multiple centers. Let us listen to others tell their stories as centered agents. Date: Friday, 11/15/02 Place: 524 Luther Bonney, USM Portland Campus. 4th Seminar: LOCAL AND/OR GLOBAL DIVERSITY? Which way - global centers, global others, exotic others? Which way forward? Date: Friday, 12/13/02 Place: 524 Luther Bonney, USM Portland Campus. Panel participant “The Nature of Beauty” sponsored by Philosophy Symposium March 26th, 2002 “Africa/Portland,” consultant/dramaturge for performance. February 15, 2002 Paper on Bessie Head in African Women session “Africana Women in Maine” Conference organized by Maureen Elgersman Lee. 20 September 2002 Maine Women’s Studies Consortium Conference Oct. 25-26: Chair: Kate Wininger: “Women on the Left” 2002 June 17-21, 2002 USM Writing Assessment Workshop, week long sessions NEH Honors Seminar Four evening lectures with external scholars and six day long workshops to develop curriculum: Oct., Nov., 2000 Feb., March, April, May 2001. Four Professors will spend four additional days in May creating two new courses for the Honors program. My involvement includes developing a course in African Thought which has a Service Learning component -working with local African refugee communities. I taught this Honors Seminar in the Spring of 2002 and 2003. Panel participant “This is the 21st Century: Freedom, Privilege, & Civil Rights in the Wake of Tragedy,” Sept. 26th 2001 Provost’s University -Wide Committee on Writing: 2nd Annual Summer Seminar of the Provost’s Writing Committee, June 2000. Maine Women’s Studies Consortium Retreat, May, 2000, Hershey, Maine Presentation and Round table participant Globalization & Ethics: Contact, Exchange, & Human Values, 28 April 2000. Provost’s University -Wide Committee on Writing: 1st Annual Summer Seminar of the Provost’s Writing Committee: Follow up Workshop, December 3rd, 1999, Panel member “Approaching Plato’s Republic” sponsored by Philosophy Department Student Organization, 29 November 1999 Workshop on Publishing and Writing for Publication with Marcia Yudkin, Nov. 29th, 1999 Provost’s University -Wide Committee on Writing: 1st Annual Summer Seminar of the Provost’s Writing Committee-2 weeks, June 1999 Gender Paper presented at USM Women’s Studies Retreat Phippsburg, Maine, May 13-14, 1999 Meet the Professor luncheon for the Philosophy Symposium, 23 April 1999. Women’s High Tea talk on Bessie Head, 3 February 1999 Participant in a Center for Teaching Workshop: Barbara Wolvood all day workshop “Using Writing for Student Learning,” Sheraton Tara Hotel, Dec 5th, 1998. Panelist doing Commentary on Zimbabwean guest speaker sponsored by Honor’s Department, 23 September, 1998 Provost’s Writing Initiative Workshop Stone House USM, May 20th, 1998. Maine Women’s Studies Consortium, Retreat, May 21-22 1998 China, Maine “‘Woman’, ‘Mother’, ‘Gender’ in Some African Societies," Panel Presentation at USM Women’s Studies Retreat, May 1998. “Philosophy and the Art of Motherhood," during Women’s History Month, March 25th, 1998. “Nietzsche’s views on Logic.," guest of the Honors Program at the University of Maine, Farmington where she spoke on April 14th, 1997. 1997-1998 Participant and organizer for LIBRA lectures and workshops on Literacies: Shirley Brice Heath, October 30th lecture , workshop all day 31st Glenda Hull, December 12th workshop at the Roma Restaurant sponsored by Libra Com. David Bartholomae February 5th lecture, workshop all day 6th (I introduced President Pattenaude) Shirley Brice Heath April 23 lecture -workshop all day 24th (I introduced Dean Worchel) -These were daylong workshops on teaching writing May 18th Libra end of series workshop Black Point Inn, Scarborough Maine Women’s Studies Consortium Retreat, May, 1997, Hershey, Maine Women’s Studies Retreat , May 1997 Value of a Liberal Arts Education Now and in the 21st Century. Panel speaker on the topic “Offering Resources and Scholarship to the Community,” Campus Center, Fall 1996 Women’s Studies Retreat, May 1996 “Women Appropriating, Women Appropriated: A Neo-Colonial Encounter,” philosophy dept. sponsored talk at USM, Spring, 1996. "Women Appropriating and Women Appropriated: A Neo-Colonial Encounter" lecture sponsored by the Philosophy Symposium, PS #1, February 12th,1996 Round Table Luncheon Discussion with Kenneth Lewallen on Strategies for Raising Sensitive and/or Controversial Teaching in the Classroom, November 10th, 1995. Center for Teaching Lunch with colleagues to discuss teaching writing, linking classes, teaching controversial topics. This was organized with David Wagner, Oct. 27th, 1995. Chair for 4 papers at the Maine Consortium Women’s Studies at the University of Southern Maine, Gorham, Fall, 1995 “Nietzsche and Feminism” for ECCE Nietzsche Conference USM, March, 1995. Malcolm X’ Introduction and Critique of Spike Lee’s Film at USM, November 22nd, 1993 Conference on Africa: Focus Somalia, George Caffentzis and I, with the help of students, put together the day conference, April 15th, 1993. "Silence=Death" paper for Conference on Western Civilization, USM. December 15th, 1992. "Nietzsche and 19th Century Social Movements" for the Philosophy Symposium October 26th, 1992. "Truth and Lie in My Sister and I" in the Texts that Matter series in the USM Honors Program. January 22, 1992 “Xanthippe Speaks” Video and presentation about the Society for Women in Philosophy with Julien Murphy. 1991 "Feminism, African Philosophy, and Kenya Now" sponsored by Women's Studies Department, October 9th, 1991. Panelist for Women’s Studies discussion on consensus decision making, 1990 Women’s Studies Lecture on Dorothy Sayers, 1990
UMS & USM Committees: UMS System Maine Women’s Studies Consortium 1992-present- this group consists of Bowdoin, Colby, Bates and Maine state Universities. It meets each semester at a different campus and puts on a yearly conference. Maine Women’s Studies Consortium, Retreat May 21-22 1999 China, Maine- Spring 2004, 2 days.
Provost/President: Pluralism Task Force Pluralism Curriculum Committee (2 years) Project 100 Participant: 2000, 1997/1998, 1995/1996
CAS Faculty Senate, CAS Humanities Senator, 2007-2009 Faculty Senate, Humanities Awards Committee 2007-2008, 2007-2008, Faculty Senate , Library and Media Committee 2007-2009, Faculty Mentor for Sama Alshiabi Art Department faculty member, Angela Gulielmetti, German Department of Classical & Foreign Languages CAS Libra Committee 2002-Dec 2003(Chair Fall, 2003), Nawal El Saadawi and Sherif Hetata CAS Libra Committee 1997-1998 “Literacies” Faculty Professional Development Committee 1991-1992, 1993, 1994-1995 University of Chicago, Pluralism Conference, November 1992 ( FPDC representative)
USM Chair of Post Tenure Reviews for Schwanauer 2006 and Murphy 2008 Philosophy Dept Curriculum Committee, Creation of Phil 405, Creation of 19th C. Philosophy
Philosophy Department Chair
Chair September 2008-June 2009 Chair January – June 2006 Chair. September 2003-November 2003 Chair January 2002- June 2003 Chair September 1997-November 13, 1998 Chair: Summer 1993, January 1995
Philosophy Department Hiring Committee 2002-2003, etc. Philosophy Department Speakers Committee 1990-1993 Philosophy Department Strategic Planning Committee Philosophy Department Teaching Symposium Philosophy Department Faculty Advisor to Student Organization Fall 1993, Spring 1995
Women's Studies Council 1989-Present Women's Studies Council Programming member 2008-2009 Chair 2007-2008 Program events for the year including the programming for 2 semesters of a 1 credit course administered by Women’s Studies and serving the Gen Ed EYE course as its 4th hour. Women's Studies Council Curriculum Committee and GEN ED 2006-present Women's Studies Sub-committee on Research Materials 2007 Women’s Studies Faculty Development Conference Planning Committee, 2005 Women’s Studies Library Committee 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2006-2007 Women’s Studies Personnel Committee 1999-2000 Women's Studies State Programming 1991-1998 Women’s Studies Reading Group: Organizer of readings & Participant 1992-1994 Women's Studies Advisory Committee, 1992-1993
Radio/Press
Interview with Keita Witten on Radio. Mama Africa show WMPG November 29th 2009. Interview with Anne Hobby of the FREE PRESS vol. 37, Issue 21, regarding sustainability issues. 2005 “Sound Ideas” broadcasts on Bessie Head and Maria Lugones, WMPG Fall, 2000 Interview on teaching and research Andee Warren’s Women’s Show, Feb. 14, 2000 "Discussion of the Responsibilities of the Artist to Society." One hour radio broadcast on WMPG. Jan 15th 1992 "Philosophy Conference in Nairobi & the State of African Philosophy Today" in Philosophy Dept. with Dr. Joseph Grange and Dr. George Caffentzis. Radio broadcast on WMPG. Fall 1991
Television: Public Access Cable Mothering interview for Mother’s day May, 1998
Book Marks interview with Mark Lapping on my book Nietzsche’s Reclamation of Philosophy, May, 1998
USM Close Ups Interview by Dr. Nancy Gish given with Larry Bliss on the issue of diversity in educational curricula. Fall, 1991
"Toward Defining Pluralism," Broadcast of Pluralism talk for CUPA Fall 1991 Broadcast in Spring 1992
Gorham Art Gallery interview with Juris Ubans on the show concerning Back Yard Art. Fall 1991
Talks and Service to Maine Community:
2008 – present Member. Freeport Maine Creative Arts, PO Box 187 Freeport, ME 04032 The mission of Freeport Creative Arts is to nurture and support the sustainability of the arts while offering the community and visitors diverse creative opportunities in Freeport, Pownal and Durham http://www.freeportusa.com/fca.html [email protected]
Board member of Museum of African Culture formerly, Museum of African Tribal Art, Portland, Maine 2001-2005, Education Committee 2006-2008
2006, 1 February. Freeport Middle School Two separate one hour presentations on East Africa and Southern Africa for students and teachers sending supplies to Uganda to help AIDS orphanages and schools.
2004 “Colonialism and the Voice of Modern Africa: a Case from Kenya.” Primary Source’s “Stories Told in Many Ways: African Art, Literature and Music” program for Maine K-12 teachers. Ryan Bradeen, director. Tuesday, December 14th (4:00 - 7:30) at Bangor High School in Bangor, Maine.
2003 Maine Humanities Council's “Teachers As Scholars” in Southern Maine: Spring 2003 February 10, Monday “Representations of Race in American Popular Culture” An interdisciplinary seminar linked to the exhibit Scandalous Eyes: African America in Illustrated Sheet Music Covers, 1895- 1925 (at the USM Area Gallery until April 1) and USM's African-American Archives. Five scholars will examine different aspects of this paradox: at a time when African-American musicians were inventing a uniquely American art form, popular culture caricatured them as childish or animal-like. The discussion will connect with broader questions of how pop culture reinforces racial stereotypes. Frank Carner (English), Donna Cassidy (art and American & New England Studies), Maureen Elgersman Lee (history), J. Mark Scearce (music), Kathleen Wininger (philosophy)
2001-2005 K-12 Africa presentations for Freeport School System. Morse Street School 2001, 2002 Mast Landing School, 2003, 2004, Freeport Middle School 2005 .
1994-1998 Organizer of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Annual Women’s Film and Video Festival in Portland, Maine 1994-1998. Sponsored by Portland Museum of Art, and USM Women’s Studies.
1997 “Scarlet Letter," Mad Horse Theatre. Grant Writer and Guest Scholar for the production of this play. Spring, 1997
1997 K-12 Africa Presentation for the Hill School Portland Spring
1991-present. Peace and Social Justice Committee of the Portland Society of Friends.
1992 "An Afternoon in Africa" Slides, lecture, and presentation of artifacts. Portland Museum of Art. March 8th, 1992.
1990-1992 Portland Museum of Art member of the Film Committee. 1990-1992.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:
University of Southern. Maine Fall 1989-Present Assoc. Professor of Philosophy
University of Nairobi, Kenya Fall 1996 Guest Lecturer, Undergraduate, Graduate Programs
Earlham College Fall 1985-1989 Asst. Professor of Philosophy
Union College Winter/Spring 1985 Visiting Lecturer
Delaware State College Fall 1984 Asst. Professor of Philosophy
Temple University Spr 1978-1983 TA Philosophy / Women's Studies
COURSES TAUGHT: Introduction to Philosophy: World Philosophy, Feminist Perspectives, Morality and the Law, Philosophy of Sexuality, Moral Philosophy, Theories of Human Nature Introduction to Women’s Studies EYE: Gender, Representation, Resistance: Entry Year Experience Politics of Difference: Gender, ‘Race’, Class Morality and Social Justice Philosophy of Film Aesthetics/Philosophy of Art Topics in Art History: African Visual Culture, African Philosophy Contemporary African Art History Women and Development in Africa Women Philosophers in Africa and the Diaspora Honors Seminar: African Diaspora, Social Justice and Exile Existentialism Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Psychoanalysis Philosophy of Feminism Contemporary European Philosophy Nineteenth Century Philosophy Twentieth Century Epistemology: Continental and Analytic Humanities: Literature, History, Philosophy Social Science & Human Values: Psychology, Anthropology, Philosophy Meta-philosophy (Senior Seminars in philosophy) Senior Seminars on Nietzsche’s Philosophy and Post-Colonial Thought Senior Seminar in Women’s Studies
LANGUAGE: Reading ability: German
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: African Literature Association 2004-Present
African Studies Association 1993-1994, 1996-Present
American Philosophical Association 1986-Present
American and International Society for Value Inquiry. 1990-2003
Association of African Women Scholars 1997- Present
Radical Philosophical Association 1986-Present
North American Nietzsche Society 1984-87, 1992-2003
SAPINA (Study of African Philosophy) 1989-1990
Society for Women In Philosophy 1982-Present (Executive Committee 1984-86 )
Society for the Study of Women Philosophers 1993-Present
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts 1993-Present
OTHER:
Text Reviewer for: University of Calgary Press, Macmillan, Prentice Hall, Harcourt College, and Blackwell Publishers.
Referee for Hypatia and The Journal of the History of Ideas, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Modern Language Studies Journal (MLS), published by NEMLA.
Referee report for Gail Presbey, editor of the book whose working title is Philosophical Perspectives on Terror and the War on Terror. August, 2004
Outside evaluator for philosophy faculty promotion to full Professor case at Haifa University, Israel Outside evaluator for philosophy faculty promotion to full Professor case at University of Detroit Mercy Outside evaluator for philosophy faculty promotion to full Professor case at University of Maine, Farmington
Book Reviewer for African Studies Quarterly, Hypatia, Radical Philosophical Review, APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy .
Leader of an off campus program from Earlham College to Kenya, Africa, Fall 1987
Co-Founder of the Delaware Valley Society for Women in Philosophy
REFERENCES:
Prof. Robert Baker Union College
Prof. Robert Ginsberg Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Joseph Margolis Temple University
Prof. Alexander Nehamas Princeton University
Prof. Gail Presbey University of Detroit Mercy
Prof. Peter Suber Earlham College
Prof. Donna Turney Randolph Macon College