Ann V. Murphy

Department of Philosophy
Fordham University
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, New York  10458
718-817-3321
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anmurphy@fordham.edu

Academic Appointments

• Assistant  Professor, Fordham University, September 2006 – present.
• NewSouth Global Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New South Wales, July 2003 – June 2006.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College, 2002- 2003.

Education

• Ph.D. Philosophy. University of Memphis. Memphis, TN.   July 2002.
• B.A. Philosophy.  Grinnell College.  Grinnell, IA. May 1996.

Select Publications

• “Merleau-Ponty and Feminism.”  Forthcoming in Merleau-Ponty: Basic Concepts. Ed. Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds.  Acumen Press.  Forthcoming 2008.
• “Beyond Performativity and Against Identification: Gender and Technology in Irigaray.” Forthcoming in Returning to Irigaray, eds. Maria Cimitile and Elaine Miller.  State University of New York Press.  Thinking Gender Series.   2007.
• “Sexuality” (7000 words.)  in The Blackwell Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism.  Mark Wrathall and Herbert Dreyfus, eds.  2006.
• “Language in the Flesh: The Politics of Discourse in Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Irigaray.”  Forthcoming in Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty.  Eds. Dorothea Olkowski and Gail Weiss.  Penn State Press, 2006. 
• “Between Generosity and Violence: Towards a Revolutionary Politics in the Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir” in The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir.  Ed. Margaret Simons.  Indiana University Press.  2006.
• “The Political Significance of Shame” Borderlands: New Spaces in the Humanities.  Special Issue on Unassumable Responsibility, ed. C. Mills and F. Jenkins. Volume 3, No. 1.  May 2004.
• “Violence and the Denigration of Community: Between Transcendental and Revolutionary Violence in Fanon.”   Philosophy Today,  Volume 29, SPEP Supplement 2003.
• “Strange Company: Foucault and Merleau-Ponty on Phenomenology and its Ethics.” In Chiasmi International: International Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty.  Issue no. 3.  February 2002.
• “The Enigma of the Natural in Luce Irigaray” in Philosophy Today, Volume 27.  SPEP Supplement 2001.

Encyclopedia Articles

• “Judith Butler,” “Performativity,” and “ Corporeal Feminism” in Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy. John Protevi, Ed.  Edinburgh University Press. 2006.

Translation

• Maurizio Ferraris, “Phenomenology and the Messiah.” in Derrida: Critical Assessments.  Ed. Zaynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor.  Routledge, 2002.

Conference Presentations and Seminars

• “Passivity, Anonymity, Violence.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature.  Cyprus,  June 4-9, 2007.
• “Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary”  Inaugural Meeting of the French Feminism Circle. Nashville, TN.  May 17-19, 2007.
• Comment on Marie-Eve Morin,  “The Community of Witnesses: Derrida Inheriting Husserl and Blanchot”    American Philosophical Association.  Central Division Meeting.  Chicago, IL.  April 21, 2007.
• “Race and the Undoing of Performativity.”  Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.  Philadelphia, PA.  October 18, 2006.
• “Bodies Dispossessed: Sensibility in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.”  Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.  Salt Lake City, Utah.  22 October 2005.
• “The Politics of Dispossession: The Vulnerable Body in Feminist Theory”
• Ethics and Violence: A Colloquium in Feminist Theory.  University of Auckland. New Zealand. August 19, 2005.
• Australian Society for Continental Philosophy. University of New South Wales. Sydney, Australia. June 16, 2005
• “The Use and Abuse of Violence in Feminist Theory”
• Seminar. University of Queensland.  Brisbane, Australia.  April 8, 2005
• Body Modification Conference. MacQuarie University. Sydney, Australia. April 23, 2005
• “Ambiguity and Political Life: Merleau-Ponty and Levinas on the Suffering of Others” Australian Society for Continental Philosophy.  Macquarie University. Sydney, Australia. December 9, 2004.
• “Gender and Technology in Irigaray.”  11th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers.  (IAPh)  Göteborg, Sweden. June 17-19, 2004.
• “Beyond Performativity: Sexuality and the Specular” 
• International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Lemoyne College.  Syracuse, NY.  May 19-25, 2004.
• University of Memphis Alumni Conference.  Memphis, TN.  May 14-15, 2004.
• “Violence and the Denigration of Community.” 
• Australian Society of Continental Philosophy.  University of Queensland. St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia.  November 19, 2003.
• Invited Talk. Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, MA.  November 10, 2003.
• Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.  Boston College.  Boston, MA.  November 6-8, 2003.
• “Contingency and Responsibility: History and Political Judgment in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.”  Seminar.  University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.  October 7, 2003.
• “Shame and the Suffering of Others: Collective Responsibility in Levinas.” Unassumable Responsibility Conference.   Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.  September 22, 2003.
• “Race and Transgender Identity in Film.”  Society for the Philosophical Study of Contemporary Visual Arts.  Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. San Francisco.  March 2003.
• “What is White Privilege?”  Invited Talk.  Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley Massachusetts.  April, 2003.
• “Violence in the Ethics of Ambiguity.”  Simone de Beauvoir Circle. Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, December 2002.
• “Revisiting the Debate between Sartre and Foucault: Existentialist Politics Reconsidered.”  Invited Talk, Grinnell College. Grinnell, IA.  November, 2002.
• “Sexual Politics and Irigaray’s Philosophy of Nature.”  Thinking With/ Against Life. University of Memphis, April 2002.
• “Generosity Reconsidered: Rethinking the Politics of the Gift in Beauvoir and Sartre.” North American Sartre Society. Loyola University. New Orleans, LA. March 8, 2002.
• “The Enigma of the Natural in Luce Irigaray.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.  Goucher College.  Baltimore, MD. October 5, 2001.
• “Invisible Representations: Race and Gender in The Crying Game.”  Society for Phenomenology and Media.  National University.  La Jolla, CA.  February 24, 2000.
• “Language in the Flesh: The Disturbance of Discourse in Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Irigaray.”  25th Annual Merleau-Ponty Circle.  George Washington University.  Washington, D.C.  September 14, 2000.
• Response to Tina Chanter’s “Abjection and Ambivalence: Simone de Beauvoir’s Legacy.”  Fifty Years after The Second Sex.  DePaul University.  Chicago, IL. March 10, 2000.
• “Beauvoir’s Bodies: Fifty Years after The Second Sex.”  Legacies of Simone de Beauvoir. Pennsylvania State University.  November 20, 1999.
• “Postmodernism, Democracy, and Difference.”  Feminist Ethics Revisited.  The Ethics Center.  University of South Florida.  October 3, 1999.
• “Postmodernism and Identity Politics: Friends or Foes?”  Feminist Identities: The 13th Annual Feminist Graduate Student Conference.  University of Texas at Austin.  Austin, TX.  March 5, 1999.
• “The Eternal Displacement of the Feminine:  Placing Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition in Feminist Context.”  Collegium Phaenomenologicum.  Perugia, Italy.  July 1998.

Teaching Experience

Fordham University

Contemporary French Philosophy: Freedom and Embodiment
Race and Moral Recognition
French Feminism (Graduate Seminar)
Philosophical Ethics

University of New South Wales, Sydney

PHIL 2517  Representation and Sexual Difference (Convenor)
Women’s Studies 1001: Introduction to Feminism  (Lecturer)
PHIL 2608  Aesthetics: Experiencing the Spectacle (Convenor)

Mount Holyoke College

PHIL 248  Philosophy of Race and Racism
PHIL 352  Seminar on Merleau-Ponty
PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 255  Existentialism