MEGAN FLOCKEN, Ph.D. Office Address FAO 294 E-mail [email protected] I have taught philosophy, ethics, and humanities since 2010, at community and state colleges, public high school, and for the University of South Florida. I have a particular passion for working with interdisciplinary and introductory students and I play an active role in creating an environment that facilitates and strengthens diversity, equity and inclusion. Education 2019 Ph.D.: Philosophy University of South Florida - Tampa, FL Dissertation Title: Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism Major Professors: Lee Braver and Iain Thomson • Honors/Activities: Graduate Assistantship; Dean's Excellence Award; Co- Founder and President of USF Minorities and Philosophy chapter; Minorities and Philosophy grant awardee for national conference; Philosophy Graduate Student Organization Conference Coordinator; USF Travel grant awardee for conference presentations. • Tilburg Philosophy Summer School (Tilburg University) with Dr. Simon Critchley: o Nihilism: August 2015 o Tragedy as Philosophy: August 2014. Levinas—Ethics, Politics, and the Problem of Violence: July 2013. o 2010 Master’s in Liberal Studies: Liberal Studies Rollins College - Winter Park, FL Thesis Title: The Metaphysics of Love and Lack (Intersections of Hegel and Levinas) • Honors/Activities: Master of Liberal Studies Grant, D.J./Lecturer for WPRK 91.5 FM, TA for Senior Seminar in Philosophy 2004 B.A.: Ethics, History, Public Policy, Minor: English Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA • Honors/ Activities: Andrew Carnegie Scholarship, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies initiate; Undergraduate Student Senate, Funding and Recognition Chair; Progressive Student Alliance; Activities Board Political Speakers Series Work History 2020 - Current Visiting Instructor University of South Florida, Tampa, FL • Developed curriculum and taught 2 3-credit hour courses per semester (Fall- Spring 2020-2021), and 4 3-credit hour courses per semester (Fall-Spring 21-22), developed and taught 100% synchronous online curricula and face-to-face. • Became certified and proficient at using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams to instruct students in a wholly online environment. • Advised 50 students per class on how to write for and read topics in Biomedical Ethics & Introduction to Ethics, integrating contemporary pandemic and racial justice issues into the curricula. 2019 - 2020 Acting Faculty Ethics Faculty, St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL • Developed curriculum and taught 5 or 6 3-credit hour PHI 1600 courses per term, both online and face-to-face. • Became certified and proficient at using MyCourses to instruct students in a wholly online environment. • Obtained $3,000 Silverberg grant to buttress the SPC laptop-lending program to more campuses. • Organized college-wide forum for SPC Reads on topic of racial justice, connecting book themes to SPC community issues. 2019 – 2019 Adjunct Philosophy Instructor Hillsborough Community College, South Shore, FL • Taught 12 week 3-credit hour online courses in Intro to Philosophy. • Became certified and proficient at using Canvas to instruct students in a wholly online environment. • Advised 30 students per class on how to write for and read topics in philosophy. • Tailored the online shell for Introduction to Philosophy to my course. 2016 - 2019 Critical Thinking Highschool Teacher King High School Magnet, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Tampa, FL • Created and instructed a 9th grade level Critical Thinking curriculum in rigorous pre-requisites to the International Baccalaureate program. • Certified to teach by State of Florida after extensive study in pedagogy and curriculum development to address diverse learners and learning styles. • Served as club sponsors to 5 clubs and elected to and chaired local, state, and national committees for my professional association. 2012 - 2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of South Florida, Tampa, FL • Taught self-designed curriculum for 50 students in Introduction to Philosophy and/or Introduction to Ethics each semester. • Teaching assistant and instructor for Introduction to Philosophy. • Received excellent reviews from students. 2010 - 2012 Adjunct Philosophy Instructor Valencia College, Orlando, FL • Developed curriculum and taught 20th Century Humanities and Introduction to Philosophy for Valencia College, and received excellent reviews from students and administrators. • Developed campus-wide film series to support Humanities instruction. 2009 – 2010 Program Assistant Rollins College Jewish Studies Program, Winter Park, FL • Served as Program Assistant to the Rollins College Undergraduate Jewish Studies Program, to create academic programming and to write the yearly newsletter. 2005 – 2006 English and Reading Middle School Teacher Westridge Middle School, Orange County Public Schools, Orlando, FL • Created and instructed a 6th grade level Language Arts curriculum, a 7th grade level Language Arts curriculum, two 8th grade level Language Arts curricula. • Instructed an Intensive Reading course. 2003 - 2004 Teaching Assistant Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA • Served as the only undergraduate Teaching Assistant in the Philosophy department. Research Publications · “Metaphysics and the Critique of Metaphysics” by Alain Badiou. (Translator) in Division III of Being and Time: Heidegger's Unanswered Question of Being. Edited by Lee Braver. MIT press, 2015. · “Heidegger's Parmenides” by Alain Badiou. (Translator) in Division III of Being and Time: Heidegger's Unanswered Question of Being. Edited by Lee Braver. MIT press, 2015. · “Glitch: A parallax of failure and fantasy” International Journal of Žižek Studies. Special Issue on Žižek & Art - Guest Editors - Kristopher Holland and Hallie Jones, Vol 9, No 1 (2015). · “Criminality: The Metaphysics of Love and Lack,” Master's thesis, supervisor: Creston Davis, PhD. May 2010. In Preparation or in Review Publications · “Deconstructing (Derrida’s) Death: Between Phenomenology and Theology.” Religions. (invited and forthcoming). · “Nietzsche’s Turn: From Nature as Valueless to Value-laden.” Continental Philosophy Review. (forthcoming). · “Against Irony: Theatricality as Parallax Politics” International Journal of Žižek Studies. (In review). · “Vertigo: The Cinematic Sublime” JAISA: Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts. (In review). · “Real Love” Hurly-Burly: The International Lacanian Journal of Psychoanalysis. (In review). Invited Presentations · “Succeeding at Philosophy” University of South Florida Spring Colloquia to the Philosophy Graduate Student Organization, March 2021. · “Heidegger’s Will to Power” 11th Annual Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Texas, June, 2020 (postponed until May 2021). · “Derrida's Negative Theology” 8th Annual Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, California Northridge, June, 2017. · “Origin of the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” 6th Annual Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, North Arizona University, May, 2015. · “Nietzsche's Turn: from Nature as Valueless to Value-Laden” 5th Annual Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Colorado College, June, 2014. Presentations · “Nietzsche’s Turn” Southeastern Association for the Continental Tradition, Florida, April, 2021. · “Micro Machines: Between the Politics of Deleuze and Foucault” 8th Annual Deleuze Studies Conference. Stockholm, June, 2015. (unable to attend) · "The Cinematic Sublime," London Conference in Critical Thought, London, June, 2015. (unable to attend) · “The Air that Moves Mountains: How Personal Testimony Inspires Political Transformations” University of South Florida Provost Postdoctoral Symposium, “From Local to Global: Narratives of Inequality and Power” Tampa, FL, March, 2015. · “Polyamory and the Erotic Inbetween” 53rd Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). New Orleans, LA, October, 2014. · Nietzsche's Turn: from Nature as Valueless to Value-Laden” Tilburg Philosophy Summer School: Tragedy as Philosophy, Tilburg University, August, 2014. · “Deleuze and Leibniz: The Vital Virtuality of Natural Machines” 7th Annual Deleuze Studies Conference. Istanbul Technical University, July, 2014. · “Derrida's Negative Theology of Death” Derrida Today Conference. Fordham University, May, 2014. · “Against Irony: Theatricality as Parallax Politics” International Zizek Studies Conference: Parallax Future(s) in Art and Design, Ideology, and Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, April, 2013. [I organized the six-person panel “Parallax Politics”]. · “Glitch...a parallax of failure & fantasy” [video art installation] International Zizek Studies Conference: Parallax Future(s) in Art and Design, Ideology, and Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, April, 2013. · “Polyamory and the Erotic Inbetween” 11th Annual University of New Mexico Graduate Conference: Eros and Philosophy. University of New Mexico. March, 2014. · “Real Love” World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) Clinical Study Days 7: The Paradoxes of Transference, Adelphi University, February, 2014. · "La Guerre des Étrangers: Levinas and Violence” Tilburg Philosophy Summer School: Levinas—Ethics, Politics, and the Problem of Violence, Tilburg University, July, 2013. · “Bodies without Organization: Deleuze and Anarchism” 6th Annual Deleuze Studies Conference. University of Lisbon. July, 2013. · “Aural Fidelity: Speculative Thinking on the Radio” 4th Annual Southwest