Ford – C.V. Dr. Casey Ford

[email protected] ------Citizenship: United States Canada Canadian Visa: Work Visa/Resident (-2019) ------www.praksis.ca/caseyford Academic Appointments Instructor (Full Time) , 2016 – 2017 Instructor (Part Time) University of Guelph, Philosophy 2012 – 2016 Visiting Assistant Professor Marlboro College, Philosophy & Religion Spring 2015 Research and Teaching AoS Hegel and 19th Century Philosophy, Contemporary European Philosophy, , (History and Meta-ethics) AoC History of Philosophy (esp. Ancient and Early Modern through Kant), Social and Political, Philosophy of , Philosophy and Religion Education PhD University of Guelph, Philosophy 2016 “The Logic of Vanishing: Becoming in Hegel and Deleuze” Committee: Jay Lampert (Advisor), Karen Houle and Bruce Baugh (Readers), John Russon and Henry Somers-Hall (Examiners) Defended Without Revisions. Conferred on Oct. 15, 2016 B.A. DePaul University, Philosophy, summa cum laude 2009 Senior Thesis: “Foucault and the Problem of Modern Power: Against the Fixation of the Subject” (Advisor: Darrell Moore) Attended Northern Arizona University 2005 – 2007 Awards, Scholarships, and Grants (Departmental Nomination, decision pending) Sessional and CLA 2016 – 2017 Teaching Excellence Award, College of , University of Guelph Ontario Graduate Scholarship (International, competitive) 2013 – 2014 PhD Teaching Excellence Award (College of Arts, Guelph) 2012 Internal Scholarships/Awards for Graduate Study (Guelph): Graduate Travel and Research Grant (College of Arts) 2016 Departmental Graduate Research Grant (matching) 2016 PhD Scholarship 2010 – 2014 University International Graduate Scholarship 2011 – 2016 Board of Graduate Studies Research Scholarship 2011 – 2014 Dean’s Scholarship 2010 – 2014 Doctoral-Undergraduate Opportunities for Scholarship research grant, 2008 – 2009 DePaul University (co-awarded with K. Aarons) Publication Award (second place) in Logos, Cornell University 2009 L. R. Pierce academic scholarship, Northern Arizona University 2006 – 2007

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Publication Work EDITORIAL WORK (Manuscript Under Publisher Peer Review) Minor Ethics: Deleuzian Variations. Book volume co- edited with S. McCullagh and K. Houle in coordination with McGill-Queen’s University Press. BOOK CHAPTERS (Under Peer Review) “ and the Affective Limits of Ethical Judgment,” Minor Ethics (Under Peer Review) “Introduction: Toward a Minor Ethics,” Minor Ethics (w/ S. McCullagh) ARTICLES (Under Review) “The Pedagogy of Eros Bound: Desire in ’s Aristophanes.” “Rethinking the Postcolonial: of the Self and the Other,” in Logos: The Dec. 2009 Cornell Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy, Volume 5, Cornell University, pp. 25-49 TRANSLATION WORK (Manuscript Under Review) Second Reader on Dr. Lindsay Lerman’s translation of François Laurelle, Phénomène et différence. Éssai sur l'ontologie de Ravaisson, for The New Centre for Research & Practice. WORKS IN PROGRESS “The Abiding of Vanishing: The Role of Verschwinden in Hegel’s Logic” [Article for submission] “Obscurity and Limit as Self-Definition in Leibniz” [Article for submission] “ of the Ground in Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition” [Article for submission] “From Out of Obscurity: Hegel and Deleuze on Indeterminacy” [Article in progress] “Unity and Extension: The Positive Role of Reason in Kant’s System of Knowledge” [in progress Presentations INVITED TALKS 3. “An Ethics Toward Insectival Life: Micropolitics from Spinoza to Agamben.” 2018 Marlboro College (upcoming) 2. “Difference as Encounter with the World: Deleuze's Difference and Repetition.” 2015 Marlboro College 1. “Philosophy and Desire.” 2014 Society of Undergraduate Speaker Series, University of Guelph CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 7. “The Compassion Felt for Fragility: Simone Weil on the State without a Future.” 2018 American Weil Society Annual Colloquy, Simone Weil: Beyond Ideology? (Upcoming) 6. “The Future is a Fracture of the Present: Deleuze, Marx, and Time as Crisis Already.” 2017 Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2017 Annual Meeting: Out of Time 5. “Obscurity and Limit as Self-Definition in Leibniz.” 2016 Co-Organizer for Symposium Panel at Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress: Individuality and Freedom in Leibniz: Obscurity, Confusion and the Ground of Action 4. “Deleuze and the Ground of Difference.” 2016 Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture at Congress. 3. “The Logic and Ethics of Becoming-Imperceptible in Deleuze and Guattari.” 2014 Panel Presentation for “Collective Becoming: History, Life, and Political Identity” at Feminism: Body, Image, Power (19th Annual Philosophy Conference), Villanova University 2. “Pregnant with Future: Deleuze, Futurism, and the Micropolitics of Dynamism.” 2012 Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts, King’s University College and University of Western Ontario 1. “Foucault and the Problem of Modern Power: Against the Fixation of the Subject.”

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Reflections on Practical Philosophy: An Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Tulane University 2009 and Loyola University (New Orleans) Arkansas Graduate and Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Henderson State University 2009 WORKSHOP & SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS 6. “The Fascism(s) We Nurture: Micropolitics and Insectival Life” 2018 Philopolis, Montréal, QC 5. “Aristotle and the Affective Limits of Ethical Judgment.” 2016 Minor Ethics Workshop, University of Guelph 4. “The Limits of the Concept in Kant and Deleuze.” 2015 Philosophy Graduate Colloquium Series 2015/16, Guelph 3. “On What Grounds? Becoming, Form, and the Labor of Thinking in Deleuze.” 2014 Philosophy Graduate Colloquium Series 2013/14, Guelph 2. “Fits and Starts: Hegel, Spinoza and Arendt on the Problem of Beginning.” 2012 Panel at Philopolis, Guelph 1. “The Task of Critique in Adorno and Habermas.” 2011 Adorno & Habermas Workshop with Duquesne University, Guelph COMMENTARIES 1. “Law and the Possibility of Refusal.” 2012 MA Philosophy Conference, University of Guelph (invited commentary for J. Singer) Teaching Experience PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR 9. Intro. Guelph W17 8. Ethics (x2) Intro. Guelph W17/F12 7. Contemporary European Philosophy (x3) Interm. Guelph W17/16/F14 6. History of Modern European from Kant Interm. Guelph F16 5. Metaphysics Adv. Guelph F15 4. Philosophy and Literary Art Interm. Guelph F15 3. Introduction to Philosophy Intro. Marlboro S15 2. Philosophy and Religious Experience Intro. Marlboro S15 1. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and German Idealism Adv. Marlboro S15 SUPERVISOR FOR UNDERGRADUATE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH 1. “Augustine’s Confessions” Marlboro S15 2. “Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition” Marlboro S15 INVITED COURSE LECTURES 1. Philosophy of Human Nature: “Nature and Habit in Aristotle’s Ethics,” Ryerson W18 University (Dr. S. Stankovic) 2. Environmental Philosophy: “Environmental Ethics and Conceptions of Nature,” F15 Miami University of Ohio (Prof. S. McCullagh) 3. Bioethics: “Biopolitics of Human Reproduction,” Guelph (Prof. K. Houle) W11 4. Contemporary European Philosophy: “Foucault, Power, and Individuality,” W11 Guelph (Inst. K. Jones) OUTSIDE EXAMINER (WITH HONORARIUM) 1. B.A. Thesis Defense, Philosophy & Political Theory Marlboro May 2016 2. B.A. Thesis Defense, Political Theory & Performance Marlboro May 2015 3. B.A. Thesis Defense, Philosophy & Psychology Marlboro May 2015

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SEMINAR INSTRUCTOR (TEACHING ASSISTANT, GUELPH) Introduction to Philosophy: Major Texts (5 Seminars); Introduction to Social and 2010 - 2014 Political Philosophy (4 Seminars); Basic Problems (4 Seminars) TEACHING ASSISTANT (GRADER, GUELPH) Greek and Roman Philosophy; Political Theory; Political Theory (DE); Business 2010 – 2014 and Professional Ethics (DE) ACADEMIC WRITING ADVISING Staff Writing Advisor Writing Services, University of Guelph 2016 Graduate Student Writing Advisor Writing Services, Guelph 2012 – 2014 Organizational Work Organizer Minor Ethics Workshop (University of Guelph) 2016 Co-Organizer Challenges Of Teaching And Learning About Ethics: A Collective Exploration 2016 (Guelph) Co-Director The City Seminar in the History of Philosophy & Participant 7. Schelling’s Essence of Human Freedom (Chicago) 2018 6. Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots (Ottawa) 2017 5. Dewey’s Art as Experience (Detroit) 2016 4. Spinoza’s Ethics (Pittsburgh) 2015 3. Leibniz’s Philosophical Essays () 2014 2. Augustine’s Confessions (Brooklyn) 2013 1. Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment (Montreal) 2012 Director Philosophy Graduate Colloquium Series (Guelph) 2012 – 2014 Director Politics at the Limits of Civil Society: A Political Philosophy Conference 2013 (Guelph) Co-Organizer Workshop on Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (Guelph) 2012 Language Training French Reading and translation proficiency / Basic Speaking Competency German Basic reading competency Classical Greek Basic reading competency Professional Service Project Manager Dr. Karen Houle, SHRCC Insight Grant 2016 Graduate Representative Graduate Studies Committee, Philosophy, Guelph 2012 – 2015 VP Communications Philosophy Graduate Students Association, Guelph 2012 – 2014 Session Chair Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (invited) 2013 Research Assistant Dr. John Russon, Guelph 2012 – 2013 Research Assistant Dr. Jay Lampert on manuscript, Simultaneity and Delay 2011 Session Chair Interpersonal Relations Conference, Guelph (invited) 2010 Professional Affiliations American Philosophical Association Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy Canadian Philosophical Association Ontario-Quebec Hegel Organization Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture

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Graduate Coursework * Audited HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Aristotle Guelph: J. Russon, Guided Reading (W12) Hegel’s Science of Logic Guelph: J. Lampert, Guided Reading (F11) Plato Guelph: J. Russon (F11) Modern Philosophy: Descartes & Spinoza Guelph: P. Sheridan (W11) Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason 1 & 2 * Depaul: A. Goldman (F09 & W10) 19TH & 20TH CENTURY EUROPEAN Contemporary European Philosophy II: Adorno Guelph: J. Lampert (W11) Contemporary European Philosophy I: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, Derrida Guelph: J. Russon (F10) Deleuze: Difference and Repetition * Depaul: K. Thompson (S10) Frantz Fanon * Depaul: D. Moore (W10) Continental Philosophy: Marxism of Louis Althusser Depaul: B. Martin (W09) Depaul: M. Naas (F08) SOCIAL & POLITICAL / ETHICS Biomedical Ethics Guelph: K. Houle (W11) Selected Topics in Ethics: Social Justice Theory Guelph: M. Deveaux (F10) Social & Political Philosophy: Kant, Hegel, Habermas Guelph: O. Payrow-Shabani (F10) References Available upon request

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