Matthew McManus Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College Phone: (c) 00525549101576 Email: [email protected] Website: https://left2right.webflow.io/ Mailing Address: 818 Gadwell Court, Orleans, Ontario, K1E 2L1 Academic Professor of Politics Appointments Whitman College, Washington State August 2020 Professor of Politics and International Relations Tec de Monterrey, State of Mexico Campus January 2018-June 2020 Education Post-Doctoral Recipient MITAC (Government of Canada) Community Legal Education Ontario February 2017 - June 2017 PhD in Socio-Legal Studies Department of Social Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario June 2017 Supervised by Dr. Lesley Jacobs, Director of the Institute for Social Justice One of two recipients of the Chancellor Bennett Scholarship (2011-2015) LL.M in International Human Rights Law Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway Graduated with a First: August 2011 Supervised by Dr. Kathleen Cavanaugh Bachelors of Public Affairs and Policy Management (Specializing in Human Rights) Arthur Kroeger College, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario Graduated with Highest Honours: May 2010 Additional Birkbeck Critical Theory Summer School Academic Summer 2015 Certifications Teaching Assistant Certificate and SMART Certificate Teaching Commons, York University, Toronto, Ontario Fall 2014 and Spring 2017 "Introduction to the International Criminal Court" Certificate Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI, Galway, Ireland Summer 2010 Courses Taught Introduction to Political Science (Winter Semester 2018-Winter Semester 2019) Tec de Monterrey Introduction to International Relations (Winter Semester 2018-Winter Semester 2019) Classical Political Thought (Winter Semester 2018-Winter Semester 2019) Citizenship and Democracy (Summer Semester 2018-Summer Semester 2019) Co-Taught Introduction to International Law (Fall Semester 2018 and 2019) Reading Group on Critical Thought (Fall Semester 2018- Fall Semester 2019) Publications Book Manuscripts McManus, Matthew. Liberalism and Socialism: Mortal Enemies or Estranged Kin? (Palgrave MacMillan, Essay Collection. Contracted. To be released in 2021) McManus, Matthew. Liberalism and Liberal Rights: A Critical Legal Argument. (Palgrave MacMillan. Contracted. To be released in 2020-2021) McManus, Matthew and Hamilton, Conrad, and Trejo, Marion and Burgis, Ben. Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson. Zero Books (2020) McManus, Matthew. What Is Post-Modern Conservatism?: Essays on our Hugely Tremendous Times. Zero Books (2020) McManus, Matthew. Overcoming False Necessity: Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law. University of Wales Press, Series on International Law. (2019) McManus, Matthew. The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics. Palgrave MacMillan, Series on Liberalism. (2019) Curriculum Vitae, Matthew McManus July 2020 2 Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters McManus, Matthew. “The Time Consciousness of Neoliberal Post-Modernity.” Pitch Accepted for Historical Materialism. (Under Review) McManus, Matthew. “Liberal and Democratic Egalitarian Rights: A Critical Legal Conception.” Law, Culture, and Humanities, Online, June 2020 McManus, Matthew. “Some Remarks on Marx’s Philosophy and Philosophical Methodology.” Cultural Logic, Vol 23, April 2019 McManus, Matthew. “Linguistic Meaning, Rigid Designators, and Legal Philosophy.” Philosophies. April 2019 McManus, Matthew. “A Critical Legal Conception of Human Dignity.” The Journal of Human Rights. Online, January 2019 McManus, Matthew. “On The Political Thought of Alain Badiou.” Cosmos and History. Cosmos and History, Vol 14 (3), December 2018 McManus, Matthew. “Post-Modern Conceptions of Agency” Philosophies, Vol 3(4), October 2018 McManus, Matthew. “The Post-Modernism of the Right and the Need for Constructive Thinking.” International Journal of Zizek Studies, Vol 12 (3), September 2018 McManus, Matthew. “Science, Philosophy, and the Return of Time: Reflections on Speculative Thought.” Cosmos and History, Vol 13 (3), December 2017, pp 238-262. McManus, Matthew and Jacobs, Lesley. “The Cost of Justice for Canadians and Consumer Problems in Everyday Life” Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice, December 2017, pp 148-155. McManus, Matthew and O’Callaghan, Connor. “Human Capabilities and Rights in a Latin American Context.” Entretextos, Vol 27 (9), December 217 McManus, Matthew. "Becoming to Belong: On Human Consciousness and the Absolute." Journal of the European Legacy, Vol 21 (1), 2016, pp 52-70 Lesley Jacobs with Matthew McManus and Nachshon Goltz, Privacy Rights in the Global Digital Economy: Legal Problems and Canadian Paths to Justice. Toronto, Irwin Law, 2014. (Personal Contribution: 20%) Curriculum Vitae, Matthew McManus July 2020 3 McManus, John and McManus, Matthew. "National Prosecutions." Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. United States, 2006, pp. 732-740 Book Reviews McManus, Matthew. “Review of Jessica Whyte’s The Morals of the Market.” The Journal of Human Rights, (Under Review) McManus, Matthew. “Review of Wendy Brown´s In the Ruins of Neoliberalism.” Radical Philosophy, (Forthcoming) McManus, Matthew. “Review of Robert Brandom´s A Spirit of Trust.” Historical Materialism, June 2020 McManus, Matthew. “Review of Roberto Unger and Lee Smolin’s The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time.” Philosophies, Vol 3, July 2018 McManus, Matthew and O’Callaghan, Connor. “Review of Gerard Bouchard’s Inter-culturalism: A View From Quebec.” Canadian Review of Social Policy, Vol 77, February 2018. Selected Academic Magazine and Newspaper Articles McManus, Matthew. “Don’t Buy Dave Rubin’s Book” Jacobin, May 2020 McManus, Matthew. “Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson.” Philosophical Salon, March 2020 McManus, Matthew. “The Dark Sides of Conservatism.” The Hill Times, November 2019 McManus, Matthew. “The Information Bomb and the Mental Bunker.” Arc Digital, November 2019 McManus, Matthew. “Dave Rubin is Not a Bold Truth Teller.” The Jacobin, October 2019 McManus, Matthew. “On Neoliberalism.” Philosophical Salon, January 2019 McManus, Matthew. “Conservatives on Immigration Policy.” Spectator Australia, September 2018 Curriculum Vitae, Matthew McManus July 2020 4 McManus, Matthew. “Trump and the Age of Bullshit.” The Hill Times, August 2018 McManus, Matthew. “Why Canada Doesn’t Need a National Identity.” The Ottawa Citizen, March 2018 McManus, Matthew. “Why Be Concerned About a National Identity?” The Hill Times, March 2018 McManus, Matthew. “On Post-Modern Conservatism.” Philosophical Salon, December 2017 McManus, Matthew. “Quebec’s Bill C-62 and Liberal Norms.” Inside Policy, November 2017 McManus, Matthew. “History and Historical Mystification: Critical Observations On Badiou’s Politics.” Critical Legal Thinking, June 2017 McManus, Matthew and Satoor, Christopher. “Alain Badiou’s Criticisms of Political Theory and a Politics of Skepticism.” Critical Legal Thinking, June 2017 McManus, Matthew. “Making Human Dignity Central to International Law.” The New Jurist, 2017 McManus, Matthew. "On the (In)Coherence of Stephen Harper's Philosophy." Policy Options, 2015 Reports and Editing Contributor “Detention Brief on Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners in Syria.” The Committee for International Justice and Accountability, (Forthcoming) Nicole Goodman with Chelsea Gabel and Matthew McManus. "Summary of Paper Ballot Survey Results in Whitefish River First Nation." The Centre for E-Democracy, McMaster University, 2015 McManus, Matthew and Jacobs, Lesley and Kryszatys. "Paths to Justice and the Resolution of Consumer Problems." Report Published by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, 2016 McManus, Matthew. "Rapporteur Reports for the Annual Canadian Council of International Criminal Law Conference." Canadian Council of International Law, 2014 Curriculum Vitae, Matthew McManus July 2020 5 Assisted in editing Drache, Daniel and Lesley Jacobs (eds): Linking Global Trade and Human Rights: New Policy Space in Hard Economic Times, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2014 Editor on "The Ecological Assessment of the Sambaa K'e Conservation Protected Area." Environment Canada, Ottawa, 2008 Media Appearances Interviewed Noam Chomsky for Tec de Monterrey and Zero Books, April 2020 Guest Commentator on the Two For Tea Podcast. Presented “Conservatism from Burke to Shapiro” May 2019 Guest Lecture for Zero Books’ Video Series. Presented “Is Postmodernism Conservative?” March 2019 Guest Lecture for Zero Books’ Video Series. Presented “What is Post-Modern Conservatism.” February 2019 Appearance on TRT News Segment “Khashoggi Killing: Turkey Plans International Investigation.” January 23rd, 2019 Interview by Banter Magazine. “Matt McManus: Defining Post-Modern Conservatism.” December, 2018 Appearance on The Carvaka Podcast. “My Conversation with Matt McManus on Jordan Peterson and Post-Modern Conservatism.” October, 2018 Conferences “Rights in a Post-Modern Era” Sustainable Narratives Conference, June 2020 Organizer of Conference on The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism, TEC De Monterrey, November 2019 Presented for the Speaker’s Series at York University, October 2019 Attended the Canadian Council of International Law Conference, October 2019 Organizer of Culture and Critique Conference, TEC de Monterrey, May 2018 “On Post-Modern Conservatism.” Critical Theory in the 21st Century, Tec de Monterrey, May 2018 “Philosophy and Love.” Valentine’s