Curriculum Vitae: MARIA TALERO Department of Philosophy University of Colorado at Denver Email: maria.talero@cudenver.edu CITIZENSHIP: United States; BORN: Bogotá, Colombia AOS: 19th and 20 th Century Continental Philosophy, especially Phenomenology AOC: Enactive Cognition, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Mind ACADEMIC HISTORY: AWARDS: 2009-2014: Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver 2006-2009: Professor, University of Colorado Denver 2000-2005: Assistant Professor (Tenure-track, Rhodes College) 1995-2002: Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, Philosophy. 1989-1995: B.A., High Distinction, Philosophy, University of Toronto 2005 Mellon Fellowship (Creative Advance Planning Grant), Rhodes College 2004 Mellon Fellowship (Creative Advance Planning Grant), Rhodes College 2005 Research Assistant Program Award, Rhodes College 2004 Faculty Development Grant, Rhodes College 2004 Research Assistant Program Award, Rhodes College 2003 Dean's Travel Grant, Rhodes College 1998 Research and Graduate Studies Office Travel Award, Penn State University 1998 Research and Graduate Studies Office Travel Award, Penn State University 1998 David Stang Philosophy Essay Prize, Third Place, Penn State University 1997 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 1995 David and Helen Eisen Award, University of Toronto 1995 Jane Zeidler Award, University of Toronto 1994 APUS Scholastic Award, University of Toronto 1994 Gamma Phi Beta Scholarship, University of Toronto 1993 W.G. Frisby Scholarship, University of Toronto PUBLICATIONS: "Joint Attention and Expressivity: A Heideggerian Guide to the Limits of Empirical Investigation" in Heidegger and Cognitive Science, Julian Kiverstein and Michael Wheeler, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 2012). "The Experiential Workspace and the Limits of Empirical Investigation," International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 16/3, July 2008.
"Just Speaking, Just Listening: Performance and Self-Contradiction in Socrates' Apology" in Socrates in the Apology, ed. John Russon and Patricia Fagan, Northwestern University Press (forthcoming, 2009). Intermodal Perception and Intersubjectivity, Chiasmi International, vol. 8 (2008). "Merleau-Ponty and the Bodily Subject of Learning: How We Learn to Be Free, International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2006). Perception, Normativity and Selfhood in Merleau-Ponty: The Spatial 'Level' and Existential Space," Southern Journal of Philosophy 43 (2005): 443-461. Temporality and the Constitution of the Freudian Subject in Jon Mills (ed), Re- Reading Freud: Psychoanalysis Through Philosophy, (SUNY Press, 2004). Contradictions in the Apology, in Re-Examining Socrates in the Apology, John Russon and Patricia Fagan (eds), Northwestern University Press, forthcoming. PRESENTATIONS WHILE EMPLOYED AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: 2009: "Platonic Love," Mixed Taste Summer Series (The Lab at Belmar). 2007: "The Image and the Workspace: Merleau-Ponty and Levinas on Passivity," International Merleau-Ponty Circle. (University of Memphis) 2007: "Releasing Higher-Order Intersubjective Phenomena: A Closer Look at the Phenomenology of Joint Attentional Space," Interdisciplinary Conference on Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended. (University of Central Florida). 2007: "Exploring Groundlessness and Loss: Sartre, Heidegger and the Human Condition." Center for Humanties and the Arts. (University of Colorado at Boulder). 2007: "Existentialism," Mixed Taste Summer Series. (The Lab at Belmar) 2006: "The Expansion and Contraction of Interpersonal Space," University of Colorado at Denver. 2006: "The Enactive Body as Socially Situated," Interdisciplinary conference on Situated Cognition: Perspectives from Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, (University of Durham). 2005: "The Expressive Body in Social Cognition: Language and Gesture as Intersubjective Co-orientation within Meaning Terrains," Annual Conference on Consciousness and Experiential Psychology, British Psychological Society. (Oxford College) PRESENTATIONS WHILE EMPLOYED AT RHODES COLLEGE: 2005: "Freud and the Soul," Rhodes College. 2005: "Repetition and Authenticity," Toronto Seminar III. 2005: "Intermodal Perception and Intersubjectivity: Merleau-Ponty and Other Minds," Rhodes College. 2005: "Intermodal Perception and Intersubjectivity: Merleau-Ponty and Other Minds," Interdisciplinary conference on Phenomenology, Intersubjectivity, and Theory of Mind, University of Central Florida.
2004: "Virtue in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics," Toronto Seminar II. 2004: The Spatial Level and Existential Space: Perception, Normativity and Selfhood in Merleau-Ponty, MidSouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, Tennessee. 2003: Intermodal Perception and Intersubjectivity: Merleau-Ponty and Other Minds, at Merleau-Ponty and the New Science of the Soul, University of Guelph. 2002: The Spatial Level and Existential Space: Perception,Normativity and Selfhood in Merleau-Ponty, University of Memphis. 2001: Merleau-Ponty and The Bodily Subject of Learning," Virginia Polytechnical Institute. 2001: Merleau-Ponty and The Bodily Subject of Learning," University of Maine. 2000: Commentary on Ted Toadvine, Phenomenological Method in Merleau- Ponty s Critique of Gurwitsch," American Philosophical Association. 1999: Temporality and Freedom in Merleau-Ponty," Trent University. 1999: Temporality and Freedom in Merleau-Ponty, Bishop's University. 1998: Temporality and the Constitution of the Freudian Subject, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 1998: "Socrates' Contradictory Self-Portrait," Collegium Phaenomenologicum. 1998: "Socrates' Contradictory Self-Portrait," International Association for Philosophy and Literature. 1997: "Ghosts in History: The Work of Rebecca Comay," Pennsylvania State University. TEACHING AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: 2009-2014: Phil. 4812/5812 (Special Topics: Environmental Courage) Phil. 4250 (Environmental Ethics) Phil. 4433 (Existentialism and Phenomenology) Phil. 1012 (Introduction to Philosophy) 2005-2009: Phil. 4300 (Philosophy of Mind) Phil. 4750 (Phenomenology) Phil. 4812 (19th-Century Philosophy) Phil. 4433 (Existentialism and Phenomenology) Phil. 1012 (Introduction to Philosophy) TEACHING AT RHODES COLLEGE: 2000-2005: Phil 486: Senior Seminar on Contemporary Continental Philosophy Phil 415: Existentialism Phil 401: Phenomenology Phil 315: 19th Century Philosophy
Phil 260/4300: Philosophy of Mind Phil 250: Philosophy, Art and Literature Phil 206: Critical Thinking Phil 203: Early Modern Philosophy Phil 201: Ancient Philosophy Phil 101: Introduction of Philosophy Humanities 201-202: Search for Values in Western Culture II: Philosophy. Humanities 101-102: Search for Values in Western Culture I At Penn State University, I also taught Introduction to Philosophy, and Introduction to Communication Studies. SERVICE AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: 2008-2009 Diversity Council Women's Issues Committee CLAS Minority Affairs Committee Sustainability Signature Area Philosophy Department Search Committee Philosophy Department Speaker Series Organizing Committee Advising Masters' Theses, MHMSS program 2007-2008: Women's Issues Committee Philosophy Department Speaker Series Organizing Committee Advising Masters' Theses, MHMSS program 2006-2007: Advising Masters' Theses, MHMSS program SERVICE AT RHODES COLLEGE: 2005-2006: Co-director, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience program Organizer, Philosophy Film Series, Advising Majors 2004-2005: Writing Requirements Curricular Sub-Group Department of Fine Arts Hiring Committee Interdisciplinary Humanities Curricular Sub-Group Advising first-year students and Majors Organizer, Philosophy Film Series 2003-2004: Admissions Committee Department of Fine Arts Hiring Committee Advising Majors.
Organizer, Philosophy Film Series. Faculty Discussion Leader, Rhodes Community Day. 2002-2003: Animal Care and Use Committee. Humanities Judge, URCAS (Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium). Advising First-Year Students and Majors MEMBERSHIPS: LANGUAGES: American Philosophical Association (APA) Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Merleau-Ponty Circle Fluent in English and Spanish. Reading Proficiency in French and German.