Curriculum Vitae Marjolein Oele University of San Francisco, Department of Philosophy 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco CA 94117 Phone: (415) 422-4369 Email: [email protected]

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AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Twentieth Century and Contemporary European Philosophy AOC: History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

Education: Ph.D. Philosophy, August 2007, Loyola University Chicago Dissertation: Aristotle on Pathos (with distinction) Committee: Adriaan Peperzak (co-director), Julie Ward (co-director), Gregory Dobrov, Mark Waymack M.A. Philosophy, March 1999, University of Amsterdam (with distinction) Specialization: Philosophy of Human- and Culture Sciences Master’s Thesis: Mimesis and Clinical Pictures M.D., March 1999, Free University Amsterdam M.A., Medicine, July 1995, Free University Amsterdam

Academic Position: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco, 2013-present Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco, 2007-2013

Honors, Fellowships and Awards: NEH Chair in the Humanities, USF, 2016-2017 Post-Sabbatical Merit Award for Exceptional Research Productivity, USF, 2015 USF Nominee, NEH Summer Stipend, 2014, 2008 Faculty Development Fund Awards at USF, various travel and research awards, 2007-2016 Honors, Dissertation, Doctor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, 2007 Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship, Loyola University Chicago, 2005-2006 Teaching Fellowship, Loyola University Chicago, 2003-2004 Graduate Assistantship, Loyola University Chicago, 2000-2003 Scholarships for international post-doctoral study (VSB Stichting, Radboudstichting, Hendrik Muller Vaderlandsch Fonds, Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude, Haak Bastiaanse-Kuneman Stichting), 1999- 2000 Honors, Master of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, 1999

Publications: Book Manuscripts: Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations, co-edited volume with G. Kuperus, Springer (in production, forthcoming 2017).

E-Co-Affectivity (Monograph, in progress)

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Peer-Reviewed Articles: “Openness and Protection: A Philosophical Analysis of the Placenta’s Mediatory Role in Co- Constituting Emergent Intertwined Identities,” in: Configurations, Vol. 25 (3), July 2017

“Examining Assumptions about Student Engagement in the Classroom: A Faculty Learning Community’s Year-Long Journey,” first author, co-authored with Peter DiGiammarino, Melanie Keiffer, Michelle LaVigne, Megan Nicely and Marcianna Nosek (2017), in Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal: Vol. 6 : No. 1 , Article 14, pp. 110-119.

“Passive Dispositions: on the Relationship between Pathos and Hexis in Aristotle,” in: Ancient Philosophy, Vol. 32 (2), Fall 2012, pp. 1-18

“Attraction and Repulsion: Understanding Aristotle’s Poiein and Paschein,” in: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Vol. 33 (1) 2012, pp. 85-102

“Heidegger’s Reading of Aristotle’s Concept of Pathos,” in: Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 16 (2), Spring 2012, pp. 389-406

“Suffering, Pity and Friendship: an Aristotelian Reading of Book 24 of Homer’s Iliad,” in: Electronic Antiquity (a special edition on The Passions of Achilles; Reflections on the Classical and Medieval Epic), Vol.14 (1), November 2010, pp. 51-65

“Aesthetic Sensibility and Political Praxis: Foucault, Lyotard and the Darfur Crisis,” co-authored with G. Kuperus and A. Bartlett, in: Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 12 (1/2), 2009, pp. 137-155

Chapters in Books: “Introduction,” and “Folding Nature Back Upon Itself: Aristotle and the Rebirth of Physis,” in: Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations, co-edited by G. Kuperus & M. Oele, Springer, (forthcoming 2017).

“Priam’s Despair and Courage: An Aristotelian Reading of Fear, Hope and Suffering in Homer’s Iliad.” In: W. Wians (ed.), Logoi and Muthoi: Further Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature (Albany, NY: SUNY Press), n.pag. (under review with SUNY Press)

“Aristotle on Physis: Analyzing the Inner Ambiguities and Transgression of Nature.” In: E. Sanday & S. Kirkland (eds.), Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press), n.pag. (forthcoming, 2017)

“Philosophy and Friendship.” In: C. Hanley (ed.) In Praise of Speaking, Reading, Writing, Teaching, Discussing: Festschrift for Adriaan Peperzak’s 80th Birthday (Baltimore, MD: Loyola University in Maryland Press), n.pag. (forthcoming, 2017).

“Being Beyond: Aristotle’s and Plessner’s Accounts of Animal Responsiveness.” In: C. Lotz & C. Painter (eds.), Phenomenology and the Non-Human Animal: At the Limits of Experience (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp. 29-37

2 “Diogenes of Sinope.” In: P. O’Grady (ed.), Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy But Didn't Know Who To Ask (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 139-142

Book Reviews: Review of Aristotle on the Nature of Truth by C.P. Long (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), in: Classical Philology, Vol. 108 (2), April 2013, pp. 163-168

Collaborative Translation Projects: Co-translator (from German to English) of “The Structure and Meter of Greek Comedy” by B. Zimmermann. In: G.W. Dobrov (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010), pp. 455-469

Editor and co-translator (from English to Dutch) of two of A. Peperzak’s articles (“Aanspraak” and “Filosofie en Vriendschap”). In: A. Peperzak. Aanspraak en Bezinning (Kampen: Klement, 2007)

Conference Presentations: Blind-refereed papers & abstracts: “E-Co-Affectivity in the Anthropocene: Rethinking the Role of Soil Pores to Imagine a New Us,” 21st Annual meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) in conjunction with SPEP in Memphis, TN, October 2017

“The Avian Body: On Touch, Trauma, Feathers and Fault Bars,” 2016 Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) meeting, in conjunction with SPEP, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2016.

“Rethinking Colony and Resistance in the Light of Pregnancy and Microchimerism: Chasing the Chimera’s of the Others that We Are,” 8th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Hilo, HI, September 2016

“Living on the Edge of the Human Body: On Skin as a Place for Affective Encounter,” 2016 PACT Summer Institute, Sitka, AK, August 2016

“Pregnancy and Microchimerism: Rethinking Identity, Difference and the Meaning of Symbiosis,” 10th annual European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA-eu) Conference, on the topic of Control, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2016

“Affectivity and Plants: A Consideration of the Middle Voice,” 19th Annual meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) in conjunction with SPEP in Atlanta, GA, October 2015

“The Ultimate Feast: On Death, Time, Funeral Rites, and the Gift of Life,” 7th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) at Seattle University, Seattle, WA, September 2015

3 “Openness and Protection: a Philosophical Analysis of the Placenta’s Mediatory Role in Establishing a Home for Self and Other,” International Conference ‘Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection,’ Leuven, Belgium, May 2015.

“Mimesis from Plato to Derrida: Analyzing Suffering and Medicine’s Clinical Pictures,” 6th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) at Loyola Marymount University, October 2014

“Transcending Finitude: On the Relationship between Fear and Hope in Aristotle and Homer,” 14th Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society at the University of South Florida, FL, April 2014

“Rethinking Affectivity in Aristotle and Heidegger,” 9th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Santa Barbara, CA, March 2014

“From the Elements to Ethics: An Aristotelian Deconstruction of the Four Elements,” 4th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) at Volcanoes National Park, HI, September 2012

“Aristotelian Transformations: Heidegger, Attunement and Boredom,” 7th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, San Diego, CA, March 2012

“Heidegger’s Reading of Aristotle’s Concept of Pathos,” 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 2010

“Pathos Reviewed: Evaluating Heidegger’s Interpretation of Pathos in Aristotle,” Inaugural Meeting of the Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, “Continental Philosophy in the Desert,” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, May 2010

“Aristotle on Physis,” 1st Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) at Seattle University, Seattle, WA, October 2009.

“Between Life and Death: Marjorie Grene’s Reading of Heidegger and Plessner,” Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) with the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Arlington, VA, October 2009

“Suffering, Pity and Friendship: An Aristotelian Reading of Book 24 of Homer's Iliad,” 9th Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society at Loyola College Maryland, MD, April 2009

“Aristotle and Foucault on Sensibility, Passive Force, and Resistance,” 8th Biennial Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2008

“Aristotle on Pathos: From Qualitative Change to Emotion,” 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, CA, March 2008

“Crossing Boundaries: The Transitory Existence of Human and Non-Human Animals,” 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, IL, November 2007

4 “Being Split in Motion: Aristotle’s Poiein and Paschein Revisited,” 6th Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society at DePaul University, Chicago, IL, April 2006

“Aristotelian Pathos: Surpassing the Binary Opposition Passive-Active,” International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, New York, NY, October 2003

“Aristotle’s Flight into the Logos: Comparing Aristotle’s Conception of Primary Substance in the Metaphysics VII with the Categories,” 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the 2nd Annual Conference on Conflict Resolution, New York, NY, March 2003

“The Mystical Self: Understanding our Self; A Reading of Meister Eckhart,” Graduate Student Conference “Faith, Theory and Identity-Making” at Purdue University, West-Lafayette, IN, February 2004

“The Aesthetics of Existence as an Ethical Way of Life,” 2nd Annual Boston College Philosophy Graduate Conference: Ethics in 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, Boston, MA, March 2001

“Praxis: Heidegger’s and Marx’s Attempt to overcome the Opposition between Idealism and Materialism,” 25th Annual Mid-south Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, TN, February 2001

Invited Presentations: “Embodied Human Affectivity: On Skin as the Place and Time of Human Becoming,” Invited paper as part of the Western Phenomenology Group at the Pacific Meeting of the APA in Seattle, April 2017

“Philosophy as the Practice of Dying: Philosophy, Miscarriage and Inner Life and Death,” Invited paper as part of Colloquium Living with Philosophy: in Honor of Adriaan Peperzak’s Retirement, Loyola University Chicago, April 2016

“Placental Mediation: On Mimesis, Immunity and Hospitality,” Invited paper as part of Invited Symposium Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of the Female Body, Pacific Meeting of the APA in San Francisco, March-April 2016

“Placental Mediation: On Mimesis, Hospitality and the Co-Creation of Identities,” Invited Paper at Student Conference “Self and Society,” at CSU East Bay in Hayward, CA, December 2015

“The Relevance of the Middle Voice,” Guest Presentation as part of the Roundtable on “New Directions in Continental Philosophy,” PACT panel at the Pacific Meeting of the APA in Vancouver, CA, April 2015

“Aristotle on Affectivity,” Guest Presentation as part of the Roundtable on Affectivity, University of Hawaii at Hilo, March 2014

“Aristotelian Transformations: Heidegger on Attunements,” Guest Lecture as part of the Philosophy Department Lecture Series at California State University Stanislaus, October 2011

5 “Pathos and Qualitative Change: Aristotle on the Origin of Affective Dispositions,” Colloquium Presentation at the San Francisco Bay Area Feminism and Philosophy Workshop (BayFAB), San Francisco State University, CA, December 2010

“Passive Dispositions: On the Relationship between Pathos and Hexis in Aristotle,” Colloquium Presentation at the Townsend Group in Ancient Philosophy, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 2010

“Philosophy and Friendship,” In Praise of Speaking: A Gathering in Honor of Adriaan Peperzak, Loyola College Maryland, MD, May 2009

“The Dynamics of Being Changed: Aristotle and Heidegger on Pathos,” Philosophy Faculty Colloquium, Michigan State University, MI, November 2008

“From Priam to Achilles: Aristotle on the Force of Pity and the Beauty of Endurance,” USF Conference The Passions of Achilles. Reflections on the Classical and Medieval Epic, San Francisco, CA, October 2008

“From Pathos to Attunement: A Reading of Aristotle and Heidegger,” Philosophy Faculty Colloquium, University of San Francisco, CA, April 2008

Commentaries: Commentary on “The Human Ergon and the Human Good” by Samuel Baker, Fall Meeting of the Bay Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BayCAP) at UC Davis, November 2014

Commentary on “The Soul Also Arises: Reconciling Phaedrus 245e-246a2 with generated psychē in the late dialogues” by Jason Rheins, 3rd Annual Meeting of the West Coast Plato Workshop, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, May 2010

Commentary on “Touch and Flesh in Aristotle’s De Anima” by Rebecca S. Goldner, 10th Annual Independent Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, East-Lansing, MI, April 2010

Commentary on “The ‘Deadliness’ and Fragility of Action: An Oakeshottian View of Beauty” by David W. Johnson, BACPA-group meeting at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the APA, San Francisco, CA, March 2010

Commentary on “Aristotle and the Origins of Systematic Philosophy” by Helen Lang, 7th Annual Independent Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, Boston College, Boston, MA, April 2007

Commentary on “Simplicity and Eros in Plutarch’s Antony” by Keith Whitaker, 3rd Annual Independent Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, April 2003

Commentary on “Dialectics and Zeno’s ‘First Hypothesis’ in Plato’s Parmenides: Proclus’ contribution” by Eric Sanday, 2nd Annual Independent Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, Denver, CO, April 2002

6 Commentary on “Questioning Heidegger: The Question of the Question in the Late Heidegger” by Lee Braver, 25th Annual Mid-south Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN, February 2001

Teaching Experience at the University of San Francisco: Courses Taught: Phil 195: First Year Seminar: Philosophy of Art, Spring 2012, Fall 2013 Phil 195: First Year Seminar: Existentialism in San Francisco, Spring 2016 Phil 209: Aesthetics, Spring 2010, Fall 2011 SII 210: Ancient Philosophy, Fall 2008-2013, Spring 2015 Phil 211: Ancient Philosophy, Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2015, Fall 2015 Phil 230: Philosophy of the Human Person, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009 (2 sections) Phil 240: Ethics, Fall 2007 Phil 256: Existentialism, Spring 2016, Spring 2018 (forthcoming) Phil 310 (formerly Phil 210): Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2016, Fall 2017 Phil 380: Special Topics: Love, Passion and the Greeks, Spring 2009 Phil 380: Special Topics: Aristotle & Heidegger, Fall 2012 Phil 482: Topics in the History of Philosophy: Hermeneutics and Ancient Philosophy, Spring 2008 Phil 482: Topics in the History of Philosophy: Heidegger & Gadamer; Fall 2010 Phil 482: Topics in the History of Philosophy: Passivity, Vulnerability & Suffering, Spring 2015 Phil 482: Topics in the History of Philosophy: Rethinking Time, Place, and Coexistence with Heidegger and Sloterdijk, Spring 2017

Service to the Profession: Editorial: Referee – Studia Phaenomenologica (2017-present) Referee – Comparative and Continental Philosophy (2016-present) Referee – Philosophy & Rhetoric (2014-present) Referee – Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy (2012-present) Referee – Ancient Philosophy (2011-present) Referee – Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture (2011 – present) Editorial Advisory Board: Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture (2011 – present)

Executive: Co-Organizer PACT Sitka Summer Institute (Sitka, Alaska), August 2016) Co-Founder & Organizer, First Annual Meeting of the Bay Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (BayCAP), with Guest Speaker Aryeh Kosman, at USF, March 2014; Second Annual Meeting with Guest Speaker James Lennox at UC Berkeley, March 2015; Third Annual Meeting with Katja Vogt at USF, March 2016 Organizer Working/Roundtable Group “Aristotle and the Non-Human Animal,” 2017 Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society (APS) at Baylor University, Texas Member Program Committee, 2011, 2012 & 2016 Annual Meetings of the Ancient Philosophy Society (APS) at Sundance, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine Member Executive Committee, Ancient Philosophy Society (APS), 2011-2013 Host and Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, 12th Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society (APS) at the University of San Francisco, 2012

7 Co-Founder & Organizer, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Annual Meetings of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) at Seattle University, October 2009 (Nature: From Physis to Biosphere) at the University of San Francisco, October 2010 (Aesthetics) in Seattle, October 2011 (The Political Animal) and in Hilo, Hawaii, October 2012 (The Elemental), at USF in September 2013 (Place), and at Loyola Marymount in October 2014 (Narrative & Image), at Seattle University in September 2015 (The Feast), and at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo on Colony and Resistance (September 2016) Co-Founder/Co-President, Bay Area Continental Philosophy Association (BACPA), 2008-present

Service to the University, Philosophy Department and Students: Committees Dean’s Scholar Committee, Co-Chair (2016-present) NEH at USF Advisory Committee, Member (2016-present) Faculty Fundraising Committee, Member (2016-present) Advisory Board for Comparative Literature (2013-present) Curriculum Committee College of Arts & Sciences, Member (2010- 2012) Donohue Rare Book Room Committee, Member (2009-2010) Lane Center for Catholic Studies Advisory Board, Member (2008-present) Advisory Board of Classical Studies, Member (2008-present)

Student Support & Advising Major/Minor Fairs (2009, 2010, 2015) Phonathon (2008) Summer Advising/FastTrack (2008) University Scholars Mentor Program (2008-present) New Student Orientation, Discussion Leader (2009, 2010, 2011) Saint Ignatius Institute, Event Participant & Organizer (Spring & Fall 2009)

Faculty Support Director of Faculty Research and Scholarly Research in the College of Arts & Sciences (January 2016- present) Faculty Learning Community, Facilitator Student Engagement in the Classroom: Best Practices (2015- 2016) Faculty Salon Coordinator (Fall 2015-present) Peer Coach for the Center for Teaching Excellence (2015-present) Friday Writing Group/Summer Writing Groups, Participant/Organizer (2007-2010) Faculty Writing Lunch, Panelist (2010) USF Conference The Passions of Achilles assistant-event organizer (2008)

Service to the Department of Philosophy Philosophy Student Newsletter Advisor (2016-present) Philosophy Alumni Coordinator (2016-present) Philosophy Colloquia Organizer (2007-present) Philosophy Film Screenings Organizer (2010-2011) Event Coordinator & Advertiser (2007-2010) USF Philosophy Club, Presentations (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) USF Philosophy Club, Advisor (2009-2011, 2012-present) WASC, Analyzer & Reporter (2009-2010)

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Languages: Dutch, English, German: Reading and Speaking Fluency Classical Greek, Latin, French: Reading Competency

Memberships: American Philosophical Association Ancient Philosophy Society International Association for Environmental Philosophy Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

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