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Notes on Contributors
Martin Beddeleem est candidat au doctorat en science politique à l’Université de Montréal où il
poursuit des recherches sur les origines intellectuelles du néolibéralisme dans les sciences
naturelles, et chercheur au Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes, où il étudie plus
généralement les transformations de la pensée du libéralisme au XXe siècle. Il a travaillé sur
l’éthique du sujet chez Max Weber et Michel Foucault et sur leur réception comparée en France
et en Allemagne (cf. avec L. McFalls, « Weber in Frankreich, Foucault en Allemagne. Le
dialogue interculturel des sourds-muets », 2012).
Megan A. Dean recently completed her Masters studies in Philosophy at the University of
Alberta. Her MA thesis, "When Knowing Better is Not Enough: Experiencing Bodies, Feminist
Critique, and Foucault," takes an in depth look at Foucauldian experience and its usefulness for
feminist theory and practice. Her interests lie in feminist theory and philosophies of experience
and the body, with ongoing projects in the areas of feminist and queer phenomenology, fat
studies, and diet and vegetarianism. She plans to begin PhD studies in Philosophy in September
2013.
Jason Del Gandio is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy at Temple
University. His work focuses on rhetoric, philosophy, and radical social change. Jason is the
author of Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists (2008), and has written
on such topics as autonomy, immaterial labor, the rhetoric of the Bush and Obama
administrations, and the relationship between neoliberalism and the university. More information
can be found at www.jasondelgandio.net.
Pascale Devette est étudiante au doctorat à l’École d’études politiques de l’Université d’Ottawa.
Elle s’intéresse à la philosophie politique continentale, plus particulièrement à l’existentialisme,
à la phénoménologie et à l’éthique. Sa thèse porte sur le concept de liberté chez Hannah Arendt,
Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas et Simone Weil.
John E. Drabinski is an Associate Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College, Amherst,
MA. He has written extensively on European philosophy and Africana political and cultural
theory, including over three dozen articles and three books, the most recent of which is Levinas
and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (Edinburgh 2011). He is currently completing a booklength study of Édouard Glissant's poetics entitled Abyssal Beginnings and is the translator and
critical editor of a forthcoming edition of Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphael
Confiant's Éloge de la créolité (SUNY).
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Matthias Fritsch joined the faculty of Concordia University in Montréal in 2002, after studying
philosophy in Cologne, New York, Berlin, and Philadelphia. His research in social and political
philosophy focuses on historical justice, theories of democracy, and the critical theory of society.
To date he has published a monograph (The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx,
Benjamin, and Derrida, SUNY Press, 2005), co-edited an anthology (Reason and Emancipation,
Humanity Books, 2007), published a range of articles in scholarly journals, and translated
authors such as Heidegger, Gadamer, and Habermas into English. He has won provincial and
federal Canadian funding for his work and in 2010-2011 became an Alexander-von-Humboldt
Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. At present he is completing a book
manuscript on intergenerational justice; it proposes a reconsideration of moral and political
relations with future people from phenomenological and deconstructive perspectives
(Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Taking Turns: Why We Owe Future People).
Peter Gratton is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of
Newfoundland. He is the author of The State of Sovereignty: Lessons from the Political Fictions
of Modernity and the coeditor (with John Panteleimon Manoussakis) of Traversing the
Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge. He is co-editor of the
interdisciplinary journal Society and Space. His main areas of interest are contemporary political
philosophy (especially modern democratic theory), contemporary European philosophy, Africana
philosophy, and philosophy of race and gender.
Daniel Harris is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at the University of Guelph. In his dissertation he
explores Nietzsche's account of friendship with a view to understanding how others figure in our
ethical lives. Daniel has published articles on Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and American
pragmatism, and also has interests in Kant and Schopenhauer.
Kavin Hébert est professeur de sociologie au Cégep de Sherbrooke et titulaire d’un doctorat en
sociologie. Ses recherches portent principalement sur l’évolution de la culture politique en
Allemagne au XXe siècle. Il a publié des articles sur le thème des intellectuels dans Sociologie et
société, dans les Cahiers de recherche sociologique et dans le volume collectif Weimar ou
l’hyperinflation du sens.
Karen Houle is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. She is the
author of Toward a New Image of Thought: Abortion and Complexity (Lexington Press “Out
Sources” Series) and the co-editor of Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time
(Northwestern University Press, forthcoming). She has published widely in the areas of
continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, environmental ethics and animal ethics, and has
also published two volumes of poetry, During and Ballast.
Robin James is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at UNC Charlotte. With
backgrounds in both continental philosophy and music history, theory, and performance, James’s
work bridges philosophy, gender/sexuality studies, critical race theory, musicology, popular
music studies, and sound studies. Her research has appeared in venues such as Hypatia, The
Journal of Popular Music Studies, Philosophy Compass, Contemporary Aesthetics, The New
Inquiry, and the anthology Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy. Her
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book The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music was published in 2010
by Lexington Books. She is currently working on one manuscript about feminist sound studies,
and another on neoliberalism and popular music. James blogs about pop culture and philosophy
from a critical-race feminist perspective at its-her-factory.blogspot.com.
Hildur Kalman is an Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science, Senior Lecturer at the
Department for Social Work, and has for several years been Coordinator of the Graduate School
of Gender Studies, at Umeå Centre for Gender Studies, Umeå University, Sweden. Her research
focuses on methodology, gender, and emotions.
Nathalie Lachance est chargée de cours en études allemandes à l’Université Bishop’s. En 2011,
elle a obtenu le prix de la meilleure thèse de doctorat en études allemandes de l’Association des
professeurs d’allemand des universités canadiennes pour sa thèse « Thou shalt not believe
(me) ». Nietzsche’s Ethics of Reading and the Movement for Emancipation. En plus de ses
recherches sur Nietzsche, elle se consacre à l’œuvre du poète Heinrich von Kleist. Elle a
récemment publié l’article « Heinrich von Kleist et le gouffre de la (mé)connaissance » dans la
revue Argument (printemps/été 2012).
Jonathan Lewis is a final-year doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London. His
research interests are mainly concerned with the history of German philosophy (Kant, Hegel,
Heidegger, Gadamer, and Adorno), the history and problems of analytic philosophy (aesthetics,
epistemology, and philosophy of language) and general issues in musicology, music analysis,
and music theory. Jonathan holds a Crossland Scholarship and a College Research scholarship.
Under the supervision of Professor Andrew Bowie, he is working on a thesis entitled Reification,
Music and Problems of Modern Philosophy.
Hasana Sharp is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. She writes and
teaches political theory, early modern and feminist philosophy. She is author of Spinoza and the
Politics of Renaturalization (Chicago, 2011) and Co-Editor with Jason E. Smith of Between
Hegel and Spinoza: A Volume of Critical Essays (Continuum, 2012).
Christopher Skeaff is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Michigan Society of Fellows.
His main areas of research are the history of political thought, with a focus on the early modern
period, and contemporary political theory, as practiced in both Anglo-American and Continental
modes. He is currently working on a book project titled Becoming Political: Spinozist Reflections
on the Problem of Democratic Judgment.
Rebecca Tuvel is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She works on
feminist, animal and environmental ethics, and has published papers on the intersections among
these issues, including her most recent publication "Exposing the Breast: The Animal and the
Abject in American Attitudes Toward Breastfeeding" in Coming to Life: Philosophies of
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering (Fordham, 2013). She is currently writing a dissertation
on the implications of intersectional theorizing for environmental ethics.
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Jean-Thomas Tremblay is a graduate student in the Department of English and Cultural Studies
at McMaster University. He has presented conference talks at the crossroads of political thought
and visual culture, in addition to cultivating an interest in biopolitics and queer theory. His
current research, hinging on an affective hermeneutics of space, explores disrupted logics of
productivity and their significance in the neoliberal present.
Shiloh Whitney is a PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal, writing a dissertation on
affect and difference in the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. Her work has been published in
Hypatia, and is forthcoming in Chiasmi International. She specializes in 20th century French
philosophy, feminist philosophy, and phenomenology.