Sarah LaChance Adams Curriculum Vitae 4/4/2018

Sarah LaChance Adams Associate Professor of Department of Social Inquiry University of Wisconsin 3081 Swenson Hall Superior, WI 54880-4500

AOS: 20th Century , Intersectional-, Ethics AOC: 19th Century Philosophy, Social Justice

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2017-present Associate Professor, Department of Social Inquiry, University of Wisconsin, Superior 2011-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Inquiry, University of Wisconsin, Superior 2009-11 Graduate Teaching Fellow, UO, Women’s and Gender Studies 2004-07 & 2008-09 Graduate Teaching Fellow, , Philosophy 2007-2008 Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon, Humanities

EDUCATION 2011 Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Oregon Dissertation: The Ethics of Ambivalence: Maternity, Intersubjectivity, and Ethics in Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir Committee: Bonnie Mann (Co-Chair), Beata Stawarska (Co-Chair), Mark Johnson, Sarah Hodges (Outside Reader, Psychology)

2006 M.A. Philosophy, University of Oregon History Paper: An Interlude in the Silence: The Nature of Philosophy for Schelling and Socrates Readers: Peter Warnek, Ted Toadvine

2004 M.A. Psychology, Seattle University Thesis: I Will Be the Girl who Tells You All These Things: An Existential- Phenomenological Approach to Play Therapy

1999 B.A. Critical Social Thought, Mount Holyoke College Thesis: The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Turning Subjects into Citizens

HONORS, GRANTS & AWARDS 2015-2016 Wisconsin Teaching Fellowship 2015 Honoree, UWS, Multicultural Center, Diversity Dialogue: Making a Difference, Student Success Stories Faculty-Staff Advocacy Award for LGBTQ+ community, UWS 2014 CETL Disciplinary Conference Grant, UWS Faculty Development Award, UWS

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2013 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Project Award, UWS Faculty Development Grant, UWS 2012 Mary E Wooley Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College, Alumnae Association Faculty Development Grant, UWS Writing Across the Curriculum Grant, UWS Faculty-Staff Advocate Award for LGBTQ+ community, UWS 2010 John L. and Naomi M. Luvaas Fellowship, UO 2009 Oregon Humanities Center Graduate Fellowship, UO Betty Foster McCue Fellowship, UO 2008 Center for the Study of Women in Society Research Grant, UO 2007 John L. and Naomi M. Luvaas Fellowship, UO Charles A. Reed Fellowship, UO The 1905 Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Assoc. Paideia Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UO 2005 Dan Kimble First Year Teaching Award, UO 1999 Magna Cum Laude with High Honors Phi Beta Kappa Critical Social Thought Award, Mount Holyoke College 1998 Mary Williston Scholar, Mount Holyoke College Nancy Brownell Internship Fund, Mount Holyoke College

PUBLICATIONS Monograph Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers and What a “Good” Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence. Columbia University Press, 2014

Anthologies Edited New of Sex and Love: Thinking Through Desire, Anthology co-edited with Christopher Davidson and Caroline Lundquist, Rowman Littlefield International, 2016

Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering, Anthology co-edited with Caroline Lundquist Fordham University Press, 2013

Journal Articles “Quandaries of the Female-Feminist Masochist” New Theory Issue 1 new-theory.net 2015.

“Reconsidering the Political Individual: Responding to Carole Pateman’s Critique of Social Contract Theory with Help from Developmental Psychology and Care Ethics,” Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 10, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2008), 233-242.

“The Need of Philosophy in Hegel.” Southwest Philosophy Review: The Journal of The Southwestern Philosophical Society 23, no. 1 (January 01, 2007), 89-96

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Book Chapters “Introduction: Desire’s Dissonance” Co-authors Christopher Davidson and Caroline Lundquist. New Philosophies of Sex and Love: Desire’s Dissonance, Eds. Sarah LaChance Adams, Christopher Davidson, and Caroline Lundquist, Rowman Littlefield International, 2017

“The Eros of Pregnancy,” Phenomenology of Pregnancy, Eds. Jonna Bornemark & Nicholas Smith, Södertörn Philosophical Studies 18, 2016, 91-102

“Communal Pushing: Childbirth and Intersubjectivity,” Co-author Paul Burcher, Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine, Eds. Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Krall, SUNY, 2014, 69- 80

“Introduction: The Philosophical Significance of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering” Co-author Caroline Lundquist. Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering, Eds. Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lunquist, Fordham University Press October 2013, 1-28

“Becoming with Child: Pregnancy as Provocation to Authenticity,” New Perspectives on Sartre, Eds. Adrian Mirvish & Adrian van den Hoven. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, 25-36

“The Pregnable Subject: Maternity and Levinas’ Relevance to Feminism,” PHENOMENOLOGY 2010, vol. 5: Selected Essays from North America. Part 1: Phenomenology within Philosophy. Eds by Michael Barber, Lester Embree, and Thomas J. Nenon, Zeta Books, 2010, 333-355

Encyclopedia Entries “Philosophy and Motherhood” Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly & J. Geoffrey Golson, SAGE Publications, April 2010

“Maternal Thinking (Ruddick),” Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly & J. Geoffrey Golson, SAGE Publications, April 2010

Book Reviews Review of Jennifer Scuro, The Pregnancy [does not equal] Childbearing Project, Review for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2018

Review of Alison Stone, Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity. Review for Reviews Online. Fall 2015

Review of Shelley Park, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood. Review for APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. Spring 2015

“The Child Anticipates: Review of Talia Welsh, The Child as Natural Phenomenologist: Primal and Primary Experience in Merleau-Ponty’s Psychology.” Review for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: Volume 14, Issue 4 (2015), Page 1179-1183

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Wishing: Diaries of a Teenage Pregnancy by Kim McLeod. Review for Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering. Vol. 11, No. 9 (2009)

In Progress Scholar’s Guide for Philosophies of Mothering, Commissioned by Rowman Littlefield International, monograph forthcoming 2018

Maternal Ambivalence, Interdisciplinary anthology co-edited with Tanya Cassidy and Susan Hogan, Demeter Press, forthcoming 2018

An Ethics of Erotic Errors (monograph in development)

“The Appeal of Fatherhood: the Ethical Address and the Advantages” chapter for research group and book titled Philosophy of Birth: Rethinking the Origin from Medical Humanities, invited by Stella Villermea, University of Alcalá, Madrid, funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy

PRESENTATIONS 2018 Keynote Speech, Title: TBD, Conference: “The Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Motherhood,” in association with the UK Society for Women in Philosophy, “The Metaphysics of Pregnancy” research project (UK) funded by the European Research Council, and the “PHILBIRTH” research group funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy

Authors Meet Critics, New Philosophies of Sex and Love, American Philosophical Association, Central Division

2017 “Outline for a Political Phenomenology of Desire,” PhiloSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism

“Desiring Otherwise” Utah Valley University, invited lecture

2016 “Love’s Failure: An Existential Hermeneutics,” Society for Phenomenology and Human Science

“Critical Thinking across Disciplines,” UW system Office of Professional and Instructional Development Conference

2015 “Mad Mothers” Seattle University, Masters in Psychology lecture series

“The Pedagogy of Dissonance” Society for Phenomenology and Human Science

2014 Author Meets Critics on Mad Mothers, “Bad” Mothers, and What a Good Mother Would Do, Minnesota Philosophical Society

“None of Us is Born Alone: Sex, Death, and Maternity in Bataille” Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences 4

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2013 “A Phenomenological Epistemology of False Love,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

“Phenomenological Research Methods,” University of Minnesota, Duluth

2012 “Love, Rage, and Sacrifice: Levinas and the Problem of Purposeful Maternal Filicide,” Psychology for the Other Conference

“Quandaries of the Female-Feminist Masochist,” Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences

“The Ambiguous Logic of the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s Hegelianism,” Merleau-Ponty Circle

“Sex and Fecundity in Bataille: Death, Fusion, and Cell Division,” Phenomenology of Pregnancy and Drives: Erotic Intersubjectivity, Stockholm, Sweden

“In Search of the Sweet Pepper: Eastern and Western Perspectives on Desire,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle

2011 “Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a Good Mother Would Do,” Eastern Society for Women in Philosophy & American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division

“The Ethical Failure of Mothers in the Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir,” Feminist Ethics and Social Theory

“Interpreting Motherhood: The Case for Beauvoir’s Maternal Ethics.” International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society

“Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a Good Mother Would Do,” University of Minnesota Duluth, Philosophy Department Colloquium (invited lecture)

“The Communal Push and Its Implications for Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Intersubjectivity,” Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden (invited lecture)

2010 “Negotiating Mutual Transcendence: Beauvoir’s Maternal Ethics,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy & Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (co-sponsored session)

“Merleau-Ponty’s Ethics (Implied or Inferred),” Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences

“Philosophical Reflections on Maternal Love & Hate,” Oregon Humanities Center (invited lecture)

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“Philosophical Reflections on Maternal Love & Hate,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (invited lecture)

2009 “Womb Envy in Levinas’ Ethics,” Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy Childbirth and Mothering Conference

2008 “Charity is a Mother: Levinas’ Reading of Maternity,” Institute of the Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology

“This Precarious Pose: Aristotle on Stretching Out Towards Nature,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle

“The Nature of Nurture in Maternal (Care) Ethics,” PhiloSOPHIA: A Feminist Society

“Maternal Ethics: Nature vs. Thinking,” Works in Progress Conference, University of Oregon

“Anonymity and the Possibility of a Merleau-Pontian Ethics,” University of Oregon

2007 “Reconsidering the Myth of the Political Individual: A Dialogue between Feminist Critiques of Social Contract Theory, Developmental Psychology and Care Ethics,” Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy

“An Interlude in the Silence—The Nature of Philosophy for Schelling,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum Graduate Student Conference, Città di Castello, Italy, July 2007

“Loneliness in the Glare of the Gaze: A Challenge to Sartre’s Ontology,” International Society for Theoretical Psychology

“Philosophy’s Zombie, or How Husserl Re-capitates Philosophy,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle

2006 “Being With Child: Pregnancy as a Challenge to Sartre and Beauvoir’s Ontologies,” North American Sartre Society

“The Need of Hegel in Philosophy,” Southwestern Philosophical Society

2005 “Silence in Teaching,” Graduate Teaching Fellows Orientation, University of Oregon (invited lecture)

“I Will Be the Girl Who Tells You All These Things: An Existential- Phenomenological Approach to Play Therapy,” Philosophy Graduate Student Forum, University of Oregon (invited lecture)

2004 “Developmental Psychology and Levinas on the Origins of Self-Awareness,” Levinas: Psychology for the Other, Graduate Student Conference, Seattle University

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1999 “When the Cradle Falls: Child Labor and Children’s Rights,” Phi Beta Kappa Society, Mount Holyoke College (invited lecture

TEACHING1 University of Wisconsin, Superior, Associate Professor 2017-present University of Wisconsin, Superior, Assistant Professor 2011-2017 300-400 level Foundations in Ethical Leadership Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth & Mothering* Philosophy of Love & Sex* The Self Unconcealed (20th Century Philosophy) Enlightenment, Freedom and Alienation (19th Century Philosophy) Social Justice* Ghosts and Other Unrealities Feminist Theory and Action (online only) Merleau-Ponty’ s Phenomenology of Perception (independent study) Global Mothering (independent study) 100-200 level Environmental Ethics Critical Thinking Philosophy of Children Contemporary Moral Problems Philosophy & Film Introduction to Philosophy Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies

University of Oregon, Instructor 2007-2011 300-500 level Feminist Pedagogy (Women’s & Gender Studies) Practicum (Women’s & Gender Studies) Reading: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Mothering (Women’s & Gender Studies) Feminist Theory (Women’s & Gender Studies) 100-200 level Philosophy of Love & Sex Critical Reasoning Women, Difference & Power (Women’s & Gender Studies)

University of Oregon, Teaching Assistant 2004-2009 300 level Nineteenth Century Philosophy Modern Philosophy Ancient & Medieval Philosophy 100-200 level Eastern Philosophy Existentialism

1 All courses have been developed and taught as face-to-face courses, except as noted. Those with an asterisk have been developed both as face-to-face courses and online 7

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Philosophy of Love & Sex Philosophical Problems Renaissance & Early Modern Period (Humanities) Medieval Period (Humanities) Classical Period (Humanities) Women, Difference & Power (Women’s & Gender Studies)

SERVICE Professional 2018 Program Committee, “The Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Motherhood,” in association with the UK Society for Women in Philosophy Program Committee, Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference Reviewer, Studies in the Maternal Reviewer, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 2017 Dissertation Outside Reader, Philosophy Department, University of Tasmania, The Foundations of Flourishing and Our Obligations to Infants Moderator for panel at SPEP Feminism, Vulnerability, and Violence Reviewer of Book Proposals for Routledge, Indiana, Palgrave MacMillan and Oxford Reviewer, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Reviewer, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Reviewer, Hypatia 2016 Local Host & Organizer, International Simone de Beauvoir Society Moderator for panel at SPEP “Beauvoir, Aging, and the Philosophy of Science” Reviewer, Hypatia Reviewer, Frontiers in Psychology, Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Reviewer, Journal of Feminist Scholarship Reviewer, Studies in the Maternal Reviewer of Book Proposals for Rowman Littlefield International & Oxford University Press 2015 Reviewer, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism Reviewer, Society for the Study of Existential Phenomenological Theory and Culture Moderator for panel at SPEP “Future Subjects: Natal Alienation and the Politics of Generations” with Lisa Guenther, Anne O’Byrne, and Matthias Fritsch Reviewer of Book Proposal, Routledge Research Proposal Reviewer, Israel Science Foundation 2014 Reviewer, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism Reviewer of Book Proposal, Routledge Moderator for panel at SPEP “I am (Not) a Prostitute: Lessons in Sexual Politics from the ‘Comfort Women’” with Debra Bergoffen and Ann Cahill 2013 Reviewer, Journal of Social Philosophy Reviewer, Emotion, Society and Space Reviewer, Parrhesia Reviewer, Horror Studies Reviewer, Somatechnics

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Moderator for panel at SPEP “The Status of Women in Philosophy at the University of Oregon and Beyond” with Bonnie Mann, Scott Pratt, Linda Martin Alcoff, and Amy Allen 2012 Reviewer, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism Reviewer, Emotion, Society and Space Reviewer, Philosophical Psychology 2011 Reviewer, PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 2010 Conference Organizer, International Simone de Beauvoir Society Graduate Assistant, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città Di Costello, Italy Publicity, Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology Consultant, Child Psychology and Pedagogy: The Sorbonne Lectures 1949-1952, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Trans. Talia Welsh. Northwestern University Press 2009 Conference Organizer, Phil. Inquiry into Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering 2005-07 Budget & Grant Writer, Society for Interdisciplinary. Feminist Phenomenology

University of Wisconsin 2011-present Gender Studies Committee Program Coordinator, Philosophy 2013-present Social Inquiry Library Liaison 2017 Mentor for SURF-Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Speaker event organized: Michael Brown and Claire Herbert, 4/24/17, “Repression and Resistance” 2016 Chancellor’s Task Force on Student Retention 2015-2016 Political Science and Philosophy Program Coordinator 2014-2017 Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Advisory Group 2015 Organizer, Panel and Discussion: “What makes social change happen?” 2014-2015 Integrated Learning Outcomes Working Group Program Coordinator, Gender Studies Speaker event organized: Dana Rognlie, 10/20/14. “The Courage to Make Higher Education a Public Good…Again” 2013-2015 Organizer, Social Inquiry Research Conference 2013-2014 Sociology Hire Search Committee Alcohol and Drug Awareness Committee Strategic Planning Team, University Culture Research Group Speaker events organized: Joel Sipress, 2/11/13, “The Commodification of Education” Reyna Crow, 3/25/13, “Anishinaabeg and ‘Settlers’ Working Together for Social Justice” Kari Norgaard, 4/10/13, “Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life” Charlie Danielson, 4/17/13 “Food Sovereignty: Rebuilding our Food System with Climate Justice” Nathan Ness, 4/29/13, “Effective vs Ineffective Grassroots Organizing” 2012-2014 Writing across the Curriculum Committee 9

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2012-2013 Lead Individual, Undergraduate Student Research, Dept of Social Inquiry Speaker events organized: Jose Mendoza, 3/15/13. “Strategies of Death and Discrimination: Philosophy and the Immigration Debate”

University of Oregon 2010-2011 Undergraduate Coordinator, Feminist Philosophy Research Group 2009-2010 Search Committee for Faculty in Continental Philosophy 2008-2009 Organizer, What is Love? Symposium Philosophy Department Development Committee Committee for Department External Review 2007-2008 Organizer, What is Philosophy? Symposium Philosophy Department Committee of the Whole 2006-2007 Organizer, What is Phenomenology? Symposium Philosophy Department Development Committee 2005-2006 Search Committee for Faculty in Philosophical Psychology Steering Committee Co-coordinator, Feminist Phil. Research Interest Group 2004-2005 Philosophy Department Development Committee

Seattle University 2004 Organizer, Levinas: Psychology for the Other Graduate Student Conference

Community Service 2017 Grant Writer for Nóatún Community Wooden Boat Works 2014 Interviewed in A Phenomenology of Childbirth DVD by Brandi Balmer http://vimeo.com/91118343 Lecture and discussion leader for films at Zinema 2 Theater: Is the Man Who is Tallk Happy? and The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

LANGUAGES Reading Knowledge and Basic Speaking: Spanish, French, and German

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences Society for Teaching Comparative Philosophy Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle Schelling Society PhiloSOPHIA: A Feminist Society Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement

REFERENCES Joel Sipress Professor of History (recently department chair) Department of Social inquiry University of Wisconsin, Superior 10

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Belknap & Catlin, P.O. Box 2000 Superior, WI 54880-4500 [email protected] 715-394-8337

Bonnie Mann (Dissertation Co-Chair) Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1295 [email protected] 541-346-5549

Beata Stawarska (Dissertation Co-Chair) Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1295 [email protected] 541-346-5545

Mark Johnson (Dissertation Committee) Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1295 [email protected] 541-346-5548

Brian Schroeder Professor, Philosophy Department Chair, Director of Religious Studies Rochester Institute of Technology 92 Lomb Memorial Dr. Rochester, NY 14623-5604 [email protected] 585-475-6346

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