Carolyn Culbertson, PhD

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1 Carolyn Culbertson, PhD Florida Gulf Coast University FGCU Blvd S Fort Myers, FL cculbertson@fgcu.edu Education University of Oregon, Ph.D., Philosophy 2010 University of Oregon, M.A., Philosophy 2007 Oglethorpe University, B.A. Philosophy 2004 Area of Specialization Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy Dissertation: The Claim of Language: A Phenomenological Approach Director: Professor John Lysaker Areas of Concentration Ancient Greek Philosophy Feminist Philosophy East Asian Philosophy Ethical Theory Philosophy of Language Aesthetics Teaching Positions Florida Gulf Coast University Fort Myers, FL Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2013-present) Honors Fellow (2016-present) University of Maine Farmington Farmington, ME Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy ( ) Elon University Elon, NC Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy ( ) University of Oregon Eugene, OR Graduate Teaching Fellow, English ( ) Graduate Teaching Fellow, Philosophy ( ) Publications Journal articles and book chapters

2 1. Culbertson, Carolyn. My Language Which Is Not My Own: Heidegger and Derrida on the Ambiguity of Linguistic Life, Southwest Philosophy Review Vol. 32, no. 2 (2016). 2. Culbertson, Carolyn. The Omnipotent Word of Medical Diagnosis and the Silence of Depression: An Argument for Kristeva s Therapeutic Approach. International Journal for Feminist Bioethics Vol. 9, no.2 (2016). 3. Culbertson, Carolyn. Nature and Self-Knowledge: On Schelling s Ambiguous Role in Merleau-Ponty s The Concept of Nature. In The Barbarian Principle: Merleau- Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature. Albany: SUNY Press, Culbertson, Carolyn. The Ethics of Relationality: Judith Butler and Social Critique, Continental Philosophy Review Vol. 46, no. 3 (2013). 5. Culbertson, Carolyn. Finding Ourselves in Language: On the Theme of Entanglement in Heidegger s Unterwegs zur Sprache and Barthes Literary Theory. In Schreiben Dichten Denken. Zu Heideggers Sprachbegriff. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klosterman, Culbertson, Carolyn. The Pre-worldly Past: On Nostalgia in Freudian Psychoanalysis. Philosophy Today Vol. 54 (2010). 7. Culbertson, Carolyn. Ordinary Mind and the Mumonkan. Comparative and Continental Philosophy Journal Vol. 2, no. 1 (2010). Book reviews 8. Culbertson, Carolyn. Review of Feminist Experiences: Foucauldian and Phenomenological Investigations. Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences. (Forthcoming) 9. Culbertson, Carolyn. Review of Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology and Ontology. Comparative and Continental Philosophy Journal Vol. 6, no. 1 (2014). Book Project in Preparation --- Culbertson, Carolyn. Words Underway: Reflections on Language from the Continental Tradition. Conference Presentations 2016 The Inseparability of Writing and Reading: Cy Twombly and Roland Barthes (North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, College Station, TX) 2016 Reading Nishida s Basho (CoZen Symposium, San Carlos, Panama)

3 2016 The Genuine Possibility of Being-With: Heidegger, Watsuji, and the Primacy of Betweenness (International Association for Japanese Philosophy/American Philosophical Association, Washington D.C.) 2015 The Life of the Other is Also Our Life: Friendship and Radical Alterity in Judith Butler s Ethics (Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Reykjavik, Iceland) 2015 The Genuine Possibility of Being-With: Heidegger, Watsuji, and the Primacy of Betweenness (Heidegger Circle, Baltimore, MD) 2013 The Omnipotent Word of Medical Diagnosis and the Silence of Depression: An Argument for Kristeva s Clinical Approach (Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy/ SPEP, Eugene, OR) 2013 My Language Which Is Not My Own: Heidegger and Derrida s Challenge to Linguistic Determinism (Heidegger Circle, New Haven, CT) 2012 The Ethics of Relationality: Judith Butler and Social Critique (Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy/SPEP, Rochester, NY) 2012 Speech and Ambiguity in Kristeva s Black Sun (Kristeva Circle, Albany, NY) 2012 Sincerity in the Performance: The Relevance of Confucian Li Today (Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, San Diego, CA) 2011 Holding Your Memory: The Politics of Remembering Together in Derrida and Kristeva (The Time of Revolution and the Revolution of Time, Binghamton, NY) 2010 The Ontology of Waste: Barthes on Twombly (Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, San Francisco, CA) 2009 The Pre-worldly Past: On Nostalgia in Freudian Psychoanalysis (Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, Arlington, VA) 2009 Finding Ourselves in Language: On the Theme of Entanglement in Heidegger s Unterwegs zur Sprache (Heidegger Gesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar, Germany) 2008 The Ethics of Rhetoric: Political Oratory in Aristotle and Emerson (Northwest Philosophy Conference, Eugene, OR)

4 2008 Ordinary Mind in the Mumonkan (Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, East West Center, University of Hawaii, HA) 2007 The Geheimnis of Language in Paul Celan s Meridian (Participants Conference, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy) 2007 Awakening Words: Poetic Language in the Zen Tradition (Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Seattle, WA) 2006 Thinking God: Hegel and the Pantheism Controversy (Spinoza Society Meeting at the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL) 2006 Hegel and Jacobi: On Thinking and Intuiting (American Philosophical Association, Portland, OR) 2005 Necessity out of the Force of Wonder (Merleau-Ponty and Schelling Conference, Florence, Italy) 2005 Waiting for the Inevitable: A reading of time and sacrifice in the Death of Socrates (Ancient Philosophy Society Meeting, Eugene, OR) 2004 Suffer me the Insufferable: Paul Celan s Affliction (Participants Conference, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy) 2004 Thinking Emptiness through Psychoanalysis and the Kyoto School (Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle, Kennesaw, GA) 2004 Difference and Sameness in the Timaeus (University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC) Courses Taught Asterisk (*) indicates that I have taught multiple sections of the course. Courses Taught at Florida Gulf Coast University (2013-present) PHP 4930: Major Figures in Philosophy: Plato PHP 4930: Major Figures in Philosophy: Judith Butler PHM 4123: Feminist Philosophy* PHH 3931: Special Topics: The Ethics of Memory PHH 3931: Special Topics: Philosophy of Love and Sex (co-taught) PHH 3801: Self in Eastern Philosophy* PHI 3670: Ethics in Theory and Practice PHI 3223: Philosophy of Human Communication* PHH 3050: Philosophy: History, Texts, Methods I (Ancient Philosophy)* PHI 2000: History of Ideas*

5 PHI 1010: Introduction to Philosophy* PHI 4905: Directed Independent Study* Courses Taught at University of Maine Farmington ( ) PHI 377: Special Topics: Contemporary Japanese Philosophy PHI 277: Eastern Philosophy PHI 240: Consciousness and Experience (20 th Century Continental) PHI 201: Ethics PHI 177: Language and Selfhood PHI 120: What is the Good Life? (Ancient Philosophy) PHI 101: Contemporary Moral Problems* PHI 100: Critical Thinking* PHI 397: Directed Independent Study Courses Taught at Elon University ( ) PHIL 431: Contemporary Philosophy (20 th Century Continental) PHIL 371: Philosophy of Art PHIL 115: Ethical Practice* PHIL 491: Directed Independent Study Courses Taught at University of Oregon ( ) PHIL 322: Philosophy of the Arts PHIL 320: Philosophy of Religion PHIL 213: Eastern Philosophy WRI 122: College Composition II* WRI 121: College Composition I* Graduate Seminar Taught at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum Text Seminar on Plato s Statesman Courses Facilitated as Graduate Teaching Fellow at University of Oregon PHIL 325: Logic, Inquiry, and Argument PHIL 312: History of Philosophy: 19 th Century PHIL 310: History of Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval PHIL 307: Social Political Philosophy PHIL 211: Existentialism PHIL 110: Human Nature* Scholarships, Grants, Awards Received Professional Development Grants, Florida Gulf Coast University 2012 Faculty Development Research Award, Univ. of Maine Farmington

6 2009 DAAD Research Grant at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (University of Freiburg), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2009 SPEP Graduate Student Award for best submission by a graduate student, Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy 2009 Graduate Research Award, Philosophy Department, University of Oregon James Edward Oglethorpe Scholarship, a highly competitive meritbased scholarship for full tuition, room, and board for four years, Oglethorpe University Non-Academic Training and Experience Intensive Zen training, Tōfuku-ji Zen Monastery, Kyoto, Japan (2003) Internship, Amnesty International, Southeastern Regional Office ( ) Languages German (reading proficiency, some speaking knowledge) passed proficiency exam at the University of Oregon; took intensive language course at Sprachenatelier Institüt in Berlin, 2009 Spanish (reading proficiency, some speaking knowledge) passed proficiency requirement at Oglethorpe University Attic Greek (reading proficiency) passed proficiency requirement at the University of Oregon Service History As Service to the Profession: Served as moderator for panel On Art at the Heidegger Circle in Chicago, IL (2016); Served as submission reviewer for Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (2016); Wrote as invited author for The Rowman and Littlefield International Blog, publishing a piece entitled Reading Heidegger for the Sake of Peace and Justice for the publisher s on-line blog (2015); Served as a reviewer for a PhD funding proposal submitted to the Icelandic Research Fund (2015); Served as reviewer for a book proposal for W.W. Norton (2015); Served as respondent for Dr. John Krummel at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in New Orleans, LA (2014); Served as moderator for panel on Reimagining Mothers and Maternity at the Kristeva Circle in Nashville, TN (2014);

7 Served as respondent for panel on Community, History, and Praxis at the Heidegger Circle in St. Petersburg, FL (2014); Served as respondent for Dr. Jeremy Bell at the Ancient Philosophy Society in Tampa, FL (2014); Served as commentator for Dr. Pol Vandevelde at the Heidegger Circle in Cincinnati, OH (2009); Served as moderator for a panel at the Philosophical Inquiry into Mothering, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Conference in Eugene, OR (2009); Served as respondent for Melanie Shepherd at Northwest Philosophy Conference in Portland, OR (2007) As Participant in University Committees: Humanities Representative for FGCU Scholars (2016-present); Honors Fellow in FGCU Honors Program (2016-present); Member of search committee for Communication Studies professor at FGCU ( ); Member of the College-level English Language Writing Task Force at FGCU (2015); Served on an undergraduate research taskforce led by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at FGCU ( ); Member of search committee for Religious Studies professor at FGCU ( ); Alternate Senator for Faculty Senate at FGCU ( ); Member of College of Arts and Sciences Working Group for FGCU s Program Review Team (Spring 2014); Member of the University-wide Committee on Interdisciplinary and General Education, University of Maine Farmington ( ); Graduate Representative to the Committee of the Whole, University of Oregon ( ); Graduate Member of the Graduate Studies Committee, University of Oregon ( ) As Participant in Campus Life: Co-organized the FGCU Philosophy and Homelessness Conference and presented a paper at the conference (2016); Served as Faculty Advisor for FGCU Philosophy Club (2016-present); Served as Faculty Advisor for Phi Sigma Tau, the Philosophy Honors Society, FGCU ( ); Served as the faculty mentor for FGCU s first annual Humanities Symposium (2015); Co-organized a workshop as part of FGCU Pride Week (2013 & 2014); Participated in ongoing bi-weekly faculty reading group in the Department of Communication and Philosophy at FGCU ( ); Organized and ran a year-long reading group for students and faculty on Being and Time, University of Maine Farmington ( ); Organized semester-long zazen meditation group, University of Maine Farmington (2011); Coorganized the What is Phenomenology? conference at University of Oregon (2007)