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 PhD, University of Oregon, Philosophy, 2010 MA, University of Oregon, Philosophy, 2007 BA, Oglethorpe University, Philosophy, 2004 Area of Specialization Twentieth-Century European Philosophy Philosophy of Language Dissertation: The Claim of Language: A Phenomenological Approach Director: John Lysaker, PhD Areas of Competence Ancient Greek Philosophy Feminist Philosophy East Asian Philosophy Ethical Theory Philosophy of Medicine Aesthetics Teaching Positions Florida Gulf Coast University Fort Myers, FL Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2018-present Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Honors Fellow, Honors College, 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,

2 Publications Journal Articles and Book Chapters 1. Culbertson, Carolyn. The Genuine Possibility of Being-with: Watsuji, Heidegger, and the Primacy of Betweenness. Comparative and Continental Philosophy Vol. 10 (2018). (In Press) 2. Culbertson, Carolyn. Walker Percy, Phenomenology, and the Mystery of Language. In Walker Percy, Philosopher. Edited by Leslie Marsh. London: Palgrave Macmillan, Culbertson, Carolyn. Losing the Measure of Health: Phenomenological Reflections on the Role of Technē in Health Care Today. In Existential Medicine, Edited by Kevin Aho. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 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). 5. Culbertson, Carolyn. The Omnipotent Word of Medical Diagnosis and the Silence of Depression: An Argument for Kristeva s Therapeutic Approach. IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Vol. 9, no.2 (2016). 6. 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, Edited by Jason M. Wirth and Patrick Burke. Albany: State University of New York Press, Culbertson, Carolyn. The Ethics of Relationality: Judith Butler and Social Critique. Continental Philosophy Review Vol. 46, no. 3 (2013). 8. 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, Edited by David Espinet. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klosterman, Culbertson, Carolyn. The Pre-worldly Past: On Nostalgia in Freudian Psychoanalysis. Philosophy Today Vol. 54 (2010). 10. Culbertson, Carolyn. Ordinary Mind and the Mumonkan. Comparative and Continental Philosophy Vol. 2, no. 1 (2010). Book Reviews and Translations 11. Culbertson, Carolyn. Review of Senses of the Subject, by Judith Butler. Feminist Review. Vol. 118 (2018). 12. Heidegger, Martin. Art and Thinking. Translated by Carolyn Culbertson and Tobias Keiling. Philosophy Today Vol. 61, no. 6 (2017).

3 13. Heidegger, Martin. Reciprocal Mirroring. Translated by Carolyn Culbertson and Tobias Keiling. Philosophy Today Vol. 61, no. 6 (2017). 14. Culbertson, Carolyn. Review of Feminist Experiences: Foucauldian and Phenomenological Investigations, by Johanna Oksala. Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and Social Science Vol. 40, no. 1 (2017). 15. Culbertson, Carolyn. Review of Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology and Ontology, by Veronique Foti. Comparative and Continental Philosophy Journal Vol. 6, no. 1 (2014). Works Under Contract/ In Preparation 16. Culbertson, Carolyn. Words Underway: Continental Philosophy of Language. Under contract with Rowman and Littlefield International. Expected publication in Culbertson, Carolyn. Review of Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech, by Lawrence J. Hatab. Under contract with Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Expected publication in Culbertson, Carolyn. Play in Conversation: The Cognitive Import of Gadamer s Theory of Play. In Language and Phenomenology, ed. Chad Engelland. Proposal for the edited volume currently under review. Conference Presentations 29. On the Place of Friendship in Judith Butler s Thought Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, State College, PA, Rethinking Women s Silence: Hermeneutic and Feminist Considerations North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Naperville, IL, Reading the Vimalakirti Sutra CoZen Symposium, San Carlos, Panama, Remarks on Hatab s Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language: Dwelling in Speech (Book Panel with Lawrence Hatab and Daniel Dahlstrom) Heidegger Circle, Baltimore, MD, From Modern Medical Science to the Art of Healing: Heidegger and Gadamer on the Critique of Modern Health Care North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Baltimore, MD, Walker Percy, Phenomenology, and the Mystery of Language North Texas Heidegger Symposium, McKinney, TX, The Inseparability of Reading and Writing: Cy Twombly and Roland Barthes North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, College Station, TX, Reading Nishida s Basho CoZen Symposium, San Carlos, Panama, 2016

4 21. The Genuine Possibility of Being-With: Heidegger, Watsuji, and the Primacy of Betweenness International Association for Japanese Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association, Washington D.C., 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, The Genuine Possibility of Being-With: Heidegger, Watsuji, and the Primacy of Betweenness Heidegger Circle, Baltimore, MD, The Omnipotent Word of Medical Diagnosis and the Silence of Depression: An Argument for Kristeva s Clinical Approach Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Eugene, OR, My Language Which Is Not My Own: Heidegger and Derrida s Challenge to Linguistic Determinism Heidegger Circle, New Haven, CT, The Ethics of Relationality: Judith Butler and Social Critique Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Rochester, NY, Speech and Ambiguity in Kristeva s Black Sun Kristeva Circle, Albany, NY, Sincerity in the Performance: The Relevance of Confucian Li Today Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, San Diego, CA, Holding Your Memory: The Politics of Remembering Together in Derrida and Kristeva The Time of Revolution and the Revolution of Time, Binghamton, NY, The Ontology of Waste: Barthes on Twombly Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, San Francisco, CA, The Pre-worldly Past: On Nostalgia in Freudian Psychoanalysis Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Arlington, VA, Finding Ourselves in Language: On the Theme of Entanglement in Heidegger s Unterwegs zur Sprache Heidegger Gesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar, Germany, The Ethics of Rhetoric: Political Oratory in Aristotle and Emerson Northwest Philosophy Conference, Eugene, OR, Ordinary Mind in the Mumonkan Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, East West Center, Honolulu, HA, The Geheimnis of Language in Paul Celan s Meridian Participants Conference at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, 2007

5 6. Awakening Words: Poetic Language in the Zen Tradition Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Seattle, WA, Thinking God: Hegel and the Pantheism Controversy Spinoza Society Meeting at the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, Hegel and Jacobi: On Thinking and Intuiting American Philosophical Association, Portland, OR, Necessity out of the Force of Wonder Merleau-Ponty and Schelling Conference, Florence, Italy, Waiting for the Inevitable: A Reading of Time and Sacrifice in the Death of Socrates Ancient Philosophy Society Meeting, Eugene, OR, Suffer me the Insufferable: Paul Celan s Affliction Participants Conference at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, 2004 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: Gadamer PHP 4930: Major Figures in Philosophy: Plato PHP 4930: Major Figures in Philosophy: 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)* IDH 2931: Honors First-Year Sequence: Gender, Knowledge, and Power I* IDH 3910: Honors First-Year Sequence: Gender, Knowledge, and Power II* PHI 2000: Introduction to Philosophy* PHI 4905: Directed Independent Study* (Topics: Kristeva, Heidegger) PHI 4938: Capstone Seminar in Philosophy 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

6 PHI 120: What is the Good Life? (Ancient Philosophy) PHI 101: Contemporary Moral Problems* PHI 100: Critical Thinking* PHI 397: Directed Independent Study (Topic: Heidegger s Being and Time) 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 (Topic: Adorno s Aesthetic Theory) 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 Seminars Taught at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum Text Seminar for Dr. Brian Schroeder s Course, Between Earth and Our Nature: Phūsis, Logos, Place-Time, Time-Being, 2017 Text Seminar for Dr. Michael Naas s Course, Where Plato Draws the Line: Between Human Life and its Others, 2012 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 1. Professional Development Grants, Florida Gulf Coast University, Faculty Development Research Award, University of Maine Farmington, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Grant, competitive grant used to support research at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, SPEP Graduate Student Award, one award given per year to the best paper overall by

7 a graduate student, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Graduate Research Award, Philosophy Department, one award given per year to the best graduate paper overall, University of Oregon, James Edward Oglethorpe Scholarship, a highly competitive merit-based 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: Hosting the annual meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics (NASPH) at FGCU in 2020 (forthcoming); Giving a lecture entitled Introduction to Feminist Philosophy to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Greater Naples (2018) (forthcoming); Served as submission reviewer for the Heidegger Circle (2018); Served as submission reviewer for Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences ( ); Served as submission reviewer for Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy (2017); Served as judge for regional high school Ethics Bowl competition (2017, 2018); Served as moderator for a 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

8 Mothers and Maternity at the Kristeva Circle in Nashville, TN (2014); 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: Chair of Search Committee for Philosophy/ Religion professor at FGCU ( ); Representative for the Humanities on the FGCU Scholars Leadership Team in the Office of Undergraduate Scholarship (2016-present); Member of Search Committee for Communication Studies professor at FGCU ( ); Member of the College-level Writing Skills Taskforce at FGCU (2015); 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 (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: Presented a paper at the FGCU Philosophy Club (2018); Ran a workshop on Critical Thinking and Social Critique at the FGCU Lucas Center Symposium on the Pedagogy of Critical Thinking (2018); Presented a paper at the FGCU Philosophy and Medicine Conference (2018); Served as judge for FGCU Public Speaking Competition (2018); Co-organized the FGCU Showcase for Undergraduate Research Excellence ( ); Co-organized the FGCU History, Memory, and Justice Conference ( ); Spoke as invited panelist for the FGCU Psychology Club (2016); Co-organized the FGCU Philosophy and Homelessness Conference and presented a paper at the conference ( ); Served as Faculty Advisor for FGCU Philosophy Club ( ); Served as Faculty Advisor for Phi Sigma Tau, the Philosophy Honors Society, FGCU ( ); Served as the faculty mentor for FGCU s annual Humanities Symposium (2015-present); 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); Co-organized the What is Phenomenology? conference at University of Oregon (2007)