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Alia Al-Saji

Academic title(s): 

Professor & James McGill Professor

Alia Al-Saji
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7 Canada

Phone: 
514-398-5169
Email address: 
alia.al-saji [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
Leacock 932
Research areas: 
Feminist Philosophy
Phenomenology
20th Century European Philosophy
Africana and Caribbean Philosophy
Decolonial and anticolonial thought
Critical Philosophy of Race
Bergson
Merleau-Ponty
Biography: 

Alia Al-Saji has a PhD in Philosophy from Emory University (2002), following an MA in Philosophy from K. U. Leuven (1995) and a Bachelor of Arts & Science (McMaster University, 1993). She has taught at McGill since 2002. Her work brings together and critically engages 20th-century phenomenology and French philosophy, on the one hand, and critical race, decolonial,and feminist philosophies, on the other. Running through her research is an abiding concern for questions of time, racialization, and embodiment, the intersection of which she seeks to philosophically elaborate.

Al-Saji’s research has been supported by grants from theSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaandLe fonds de recherche du Québec en société et culture. In 2009, she was awarded a residence fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and in 2012 she was a resident fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Durham University, UK.

Al-Saji was the Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), the second largest philosophical association in North America, from 2014 to 2017. She is currently a co-editor of theSymposia on Gender, Race and Philosophyand the Feminist Philosophy section editor ofPhilosophy Compass.

Current research: 

Al-Saji’s research traces two interrelated trajectories. The first trajectory explores questions of corporeity, memory, and intersubjectivity in terms both of affectivity and perception. She aims to think intersubjective relations in temporal terms, drawing on the philosophies of Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty,and Frantz Fanon.

In the second trajectory, Al-Saji develops a phenomenology of what has been called cultural racism. She offers a critical race feminist analysis of representations of Muslim women in contemporary Western contexts by questioning the ways in which race and gender are at play in attitudes toward the Muslim headscarf or “veil”.

Al-Saji is currently completing a monograph on Hesitation: Critical Phenomenology, Colonial Duration, and the Affective Weight of the Past. In this book, she draws on the works of Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon and brings them into dialogue with critical race, decolonial, and feminist philosophies. This manuscript not only presents a sustained argument for thinking intersubjectivity temporally, but also brings together her two research trajectories by asking after the ethics and politics of memory and perception. The book presents an analysis of oppressive—specifically racializing and colonial—ways of seeing and the ways they are lived by racialized subjects, in order to generate possibilities for “seeing differently”.

In her methodology, Al-Saji argues for the need for phenomenology to become critical, and she offers a decolonizing critique of operative temporal concepts in the thinkers upon whom she draws. In particular, she examines Bergson's distinction of open/closed and Merleau-Ponty's concepts of dialogue between lived body and world and of institution. In so doing, she retools their philosophies and elaborates her own concept of colonial duration, in order to think the affective weight of the past in racialized experience.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

Awards

  • H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching, McGill University, 2019: This award is designed to recognize outstanding teaching in the Faculty of Arts and awarded June at Convocation.
  • Honorable Mention, 30th Anniversary of the Feminist Caucus Committee Essay Prize, American Society for Aesthetics, 2020.

Current Research Grant

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insights Grant (PI) for the project entitled The Time of Difference: Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and a theory of time for ethics. 2016-2021. Ranked first overall in the Philosophy Committee (1/54) and in the first sextile.

Fellowships

  • Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study and St. Cuthbert’s Society, Durham University, UK, Fall term 2012. (Theme of Time)
  • Resident Fellow, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI), McGill University, 2009-2012. (Theme of Memory and Echo)
  • Residence Fellowship, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, Winter term 2009.

Major Research Grants – SSHRC

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insights Grant (PI) for the project entitled The Time of Difference: Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and a theory of time for ethics. 2016-2019. Ranked first overall in the Philosophy Committee (1/54) and in the first sextile.

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Conference Grant for the conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), entitled “Philosophical Thresholds: Crossings of life and world / Seuils philosophiques: croisements entre vie et monde,” held in Montreal November 4–6, 2010.

  • SSHRC Standard Research Grant (PI) for the project entitled “Vision, race, and ethics: a phenomenological investigation of racializing perception.” McGill University, 2009-2012.

  • SSHRC Standard Research Grant for the project entitled “Gender and Philosophical Conceptions of Sexual Difference and of Embodiment.” Co-authored with Marguerite Deslauriers (PI, McGill University) and Cressida Heyes (U of Alberta). McGill University, 2004-2007.

Major Research Grants - FQRSC

  • Regular University Member, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC), Regroupements stratégiques grant for the: Réseau québécois en études féministes (RéQEF), 2014-2020 (PI: Francine Descarries, UQAM).

  • FQRSC Établissement de nouveaux chercheurs Grant (PI) for the project entitled “Vers une théorie critique de la nature de la sensation: repenser les concepts du temps et du corps dans la philosophie du xxe siècle.” McGill University, 2003-2006.

Selected publications: 

    Recent Publications


    • Research in Phenomenology, Volume 53, Issue 3 (2023): 279-307. OPEN ACCESS.
    • In Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology, ed. Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (Routledge, 2021), pp. 177–193.
    • Philosophy Today, volume 64, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 821-826.
    • The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion, ed. Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 207–214.
    • The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 77, no. 4 (2019): 475–488. Special Issue on Race and Aesthetics, ed. A. W. Eaton and Charles Peterson.

    • In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (Northwestern University Press, 2019), pp. 99–106.

    • In : Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, ed. Andrea Pitts and Mark Westmoreland (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2019), pp. 13-35.

    • Co-Director's Address, SPEP Special Issue, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, no. 3 (2018): 331-359.

    • In Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, ed. Emily Anne Parker and Anne Van Leeuwen. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 21-53.

    Critical Phenomenology


    • Research in Phenomenology, Volume 53, Issue 3 (2023): 279-307. OPEN ACCESS.
    • In Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology, ed. Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (Routledge, 2021), pp. 177–193.
    • Philosophy Today volume 64, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 821-826.
    • The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion, ed. Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 207–214.
    • The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 77, no. 4 (2019): 475–488. Special Issue on Race and Aesthetics, ed. A. W. Eaton and Charles Peterson.

    • In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (Northwestern University Press, 2019), pp. 99–106.

    • In Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, ed. Andrea Pitts and Mark Westmoreland (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2019), pp. 13-35.

    • Co-Director's Address, SPEP Special Issue, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, no. 3 (2018): 331-359.

    • In Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, ed. Emily Anne Parker and Anne Van Leeuwen. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 21-53.

    • Traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Special issue on Pluriversalisme décolonial, ed. Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. TUMULTES (Éditions Kimé), no. 48 (2017): 51-70.

    • In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 143-154.

    • Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, ed. Emily Lee. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 133-172. See the related to this article.

    • Insights,Vol. 6, no. 5 (2013): 1-13. Open access. This article deals with Fanon and the temporality of racialized experience.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy50, no. 2 (June 2012): 351-61. SpecialSJP50th Anniversary Issue: “Continental Philosophy: What and Where Will It Be?,” ed. Ted Toadvine.

    • Philosophy and Social Criticism 36, no. 8 (2010): 875-902.

    • Special Issue on Phenomenology and Feminism, ed. Sara Heinämaa and Lanei Rodemeyer,Continental Philosophy Review 43, no. 1 (2010): 13-37.

    • Chiasmi International:Publication trilingue autour de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty 11 (Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2009): 375-398.

    • Les ateliers de l’éthique: la revue du CRÉUM, Vol. 3, no. 2 (2008): 39-55. Special Issue: Is Feminism Just for Feminists?/Le féminisme n’intéresserait-il que les féministes?, ed. Marguerite Deslauriers and Monique Lanoix.

    Racism and Colonialism


    • Research in Phenomenology, Volume 53, Issue 3 (2023): 279-307. OPEN ACCESS.
    • In Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology, ed. Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (Routledge, 2021), pp. 177–193.
    • Philosophy Today volume 64, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 821-826.
    • The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion, ed. Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 207–214.
    • The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 77, no. 4 (2019): 475–488. Special Issue on Race and Aesthetics, ed. A. W. Eaton and Charles Peterson.

    • In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (Northwestern University Press, 2019), pp. 99–106.

    • In Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, ed. Andrea Pitts and Mark Westmoreland (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2019), pp. 13-35.

    • Co-Director's Address, SPEP Special Issue, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, no. 3 (2018): 331-359.

    • In Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, ed. Emily Anne Parker and Anne Van Leeuwen. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 21-53.

    • Traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Special issue on Pluriversalisme décolonial, ed. Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. TUMULTES (Éditions Kimé), no. 48 (2017): 51-70.

    • Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, ed. Emily Lee. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 133-172. See the related to this article.

    • Insights,Vol. 6, no. 5 (2013): 1-13. Open access. This article deals with Fanon and the temporality of racialized experience.

    • Philosophy and Social Criticism 36, no. 8 (2010): 875-902.

    • Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy6, no. 1 (2010).

    • “Muslim Women and the Rhetoric of Freedom.”Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader, ed. Mariana Ortega and Linda Martín Alcoff (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009), pp. 65-87.

    • Les ateliers de l’éthique: la revue du CRÉUM, Vol. 3, no. 2 (2008): 39-55. Special Issue: Is Feminism Just for Feminists?/Le féminisme n’intéresserait-il que les féministes?, ed. Marguerite Deslauriers and Monique Lanoix.

    Feminist Philosophy


    • The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 77, no. 4 (2019): 475–488. Special Issue on Race and Aesthetics, ed. A. W. Eaton and Charles Peterson.

    • In Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, ed. Emily Anne Parker and Anne Van Leeuwen. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 21-53.

    • Traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Special issue on Pluriversalisme décolonial, ed. Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. TUMULTES (Éditions Kimé), no. 48 (2017): 51-70.

    • In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 143-154.

    • Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, ed. Emily Lee. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 133-172. See the related to this article.

    • Philosophy and Social Criticism 36, no. 8 (2010): 875-902.

    • Special Issue on Phenomenology and Feminism, ed. Sara Heinämaa and Lanei Rodemeyer,Continental Philosophy Review 43, no. 1 (2010): 13-37.

    • Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy6, no. 1 (2010).

    • “Muslim Women and the Rhetoric of Freedom.”Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader, ed. Mariana Ortega and Linda Martín Alcoff (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009), pp. 65-87.

    • Les ateliers de l’éthique: la revue du CRÉUM, Vol. 3, no. 2 (2008): 39-55. Special Issue: Is Feminism Just for Feminists?/Le féminisme n’intéresserait-il que les féministes?, ed. Marguerite Deslauriers and Monique Lanoix.

    Time


    • Research in Phenomenology, Volume 53, Issue 3 (2023): 279-307. OPEN ACCESS.
    • In Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology, ed. Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (Routledge, 2021), pp. 177–193.
    • Philosophy Today volume 64, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 821-826.
    • The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 77, no. 4 (2019): 475–488. Special Issue on Race and Aesthetics, ed. A. W. Eaton and Charles Peterson.

    • In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (Northwestern University Press, 2019), pp. 99–106.

    • In Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, ed. Andrea Pitts and Mark Westmoreland (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2019), pp. 13-35.

    • Co-Director's Address, SPEP Special Issue, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, no. 3 (2018): 331-359.

    • In Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, ed. Emily Anne Parker and Anne Van Leeuwen. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 21-53.

    • Traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Special issue on Pluriversalisme décolonial, ed. Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. TUMULTES (Éditions Kimé), no. 48 (2017): 51-70.

    • Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, ed. Emily Lee. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 133-172. See the related to this article.

    • Insights,Vol. 6, no. 5 (2013): 1-13. Open access. This article deals with Fanon and the temporality of racialized experience.

    • Theory & Event15, no. 3 (September 2012). Supplement: “Printemps Érable—Quebec’s Maple Spring of 2012”, ed. Darin Barney, Brian Massumi, and Cayley Sorochan.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy50, no. 2 (June 2012): 351-61. SpecialSJP50th Anniversary Issue: “Continental Philosophy: What and Where Will It Be?,” ed. Ted Toadvine.

    • Bergson and Phenomenology,ed. Michael Kelly (Bathingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 148-173.

    • Chiasmi International: Publication trilingue autour de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty11 (Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2009): 375-398.

    • Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 40, no. 2 (2009): 207-227.

    • Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, no. 1 (2008): 41-71.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV (Summer 2007): 177-206.

    • Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 37, no. 2 (2004): 203-239.

    Affect


    • In Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology, ed. Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (Routledge, 2021), pp. 177–193.
    • Philosophy Today volume 64, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 821-826.
    • The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion, ed. Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 207–214.
    • The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 77, no. 4 (2019): 475–488. Special Issue on Race and Aesthetics, ed. A. W. Eaton and Charles Peterson.

    • In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (Northwestern University Press, 2019), pp. 99–106.

    • Co-Director's Address, SPEP Special Issue, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, no. 3 (2018): 331-359.

    • Traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Special issue on Pluriversalisme décolonial, ed. Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. TUMULTES (Éditions Kimé), no. 48 (2017): 51-70.

    • In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 143-154.

    • Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, ed. Emily Lee. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 133-172. See the related to this article.

    • Insights,Vol. 6, no. 5 (2013): 1-13. Open access. This article deals with Fanon and the temporality of racialized experience.

    • Special Issue on Phenomenology and Feminism,ed. Sara Heinämaa and Lanei Rodemeyer,Continental Philosophy Review43, no. 1 (2010): 13-37.

    • Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, no. 1 (2008): 41-71.

    • “Vision, Mirror and Expression: The Genesis of the Ethical Body in Merleau-Ponty’s Later Works.”Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, ed. James Hatley, Janice McLane and Christian Diehm (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006), pp. 39-63.

    • Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 37, no. 2 (2004): 203-239.

    • “The Site of Affect in Husserl’s Phenomenology: Sensations and the Constitution of the Lived Body,” Philosophy Today 44, SPEP Special Issue (2001): 51-59.

    Bergson Studies


    • In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (Northwestern University Press, 2019), pp. 99–106.
    • In Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, ed. Andrea Pitts and Mark Westmoreland (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2019), pp. 13-35.

    • Co-Director's Address, SPEP Special Issue, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, no. 3 (2018): 331-359.

    • In Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, ed. Emily Anne Parker and Anne Van Leeuwen. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 21-53.

    • Traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Special issue on Pluriversalisme décolonial, ed. Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. TUMULTES (Éditions Kimé), no. 48 (2017): 51-70.

    • Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, ed. Emily Lee. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 133-172. See the related to this article.

    • Theory & Event15, no. 3 (September 2012). Supplement: “Printemps Érable—Quebec’s Maple Spring of 2012”, ed. Darin Barney, Brian Massumi, and Cayley Sorochan.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy50, no. 2 (June 2012): 351-61. SpecialSJP50th Anniversary Issue: “Continental Philosophy: What and Where Will It Be?,” ed. Ted Toadvine.

    • Bergson and Phenomenology,ed. Michael Kelly (Bathingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 148-173.

    • Chiasmi International: Publication trilingue autour de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty11 (Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2009): 375-398.

    • Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, no. 1 (2008): 41-71.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV (Summer 2007): 177-206.

    • “Bergson’sche Spuren in Sartres Philosophie: Emotion und Negation.”Über Sartre: Perspektiven und Kritiken, hrsg. von Thomas R. Flynn, Peter Kampits und Erik M. Vogt (Wien: Verlag Turia + Kant, 2005), pp. 17-54.

    • Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 37, no. 2 (2004): 203-239.

    Fanon Studies


    • Research in Phenomenology, Volume 53, Issue 3 (2023): 279-307. OPEN ACCESS.
    • In Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology, ed. Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (Routledge, 2021), pp. 177–193.
    • Philosophy Today volume 64, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 821-826.
    • The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion, ed. Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 207–214.
    • The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 77, no. 4 (2019): 475–488. Special Issue on Race and Aesthetics, ed. A. W. Eaton and Charles Peterson.

    • Co-Director's Address, SPEP Special Issue, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, no. 3 (2018): 331-359.

    • Traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Special issue on Pluriversalisme décolonial, ed. Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. TUMULTES (Éditions Kimé), no. 48 (2017): 51-70.

    • Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, ed. Emily Lee. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 133-172. See the related to this article.

    • Insights,Vol. 6, no. 5 (2013): 1-13. Open access. This article deals with Fanon and the temporality of racialized experience.

    • Philosophy and Social Criticism36, no. 8 (2010): 875-902.

    • Les ateliers de l’éthique: la revue du CRÉUM, Vol. 3, no. 2 (2008): 39-55. Special Issue: Is Feminism Just for Feminists?/Le féminisme n’intéresserait-il que les féministes?, ed. Marguerite Deslauriers and Monique Lanoix.

    Husserl Studies


    • Special Issue on Phenomenology and Feminism,ed. Sara Heinämaa and Lanei Rodemeyer,Continental Philosophy Review43, no. 1 (2010): 13-37.

    • Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 40, no. 2 (2009): 207-227.

    • “The Site of Affect in Husserl’s Phenomenology: Sensations and the Constitution of the Lived Body,” Philosophy Today 44, SPEP Special Issue (2001): 51-59.

    • In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 143-154.

    On Merleau-Ponty's rereading of Husserl in light of Bergson:

    • Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, no. 1 (2008): 41-71.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV (Summer 2007): 177-206.

    Merleau-Ponty Studies


    • In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (Northwestern University Press, 2019), pp. 99–106.

    • Traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Special issue on Pluriversalisme décolonial, ed. Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. TUMULTES (Éditions Kimé), no. 48 (2017): 51-70.

    • In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 143-154.

    • Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, ed. Emily Lee. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 133-172. See the related to this article.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy50, no. 2 (June 2012): 351-61. SpecialSJP50th Anniversary Issue: “Continental Philosophy: What and Where Will It Be?,” ed. Ted Toadvine.

    • Bergson and Phenomenology,ed. Michael Kelly (Bathingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 148-173.

    • Special Issue on Phenomenology and Feminism,ed. Sara Heinämaa and Lanei Rodemeyer,Continental Philosophy Review43, no. 1 (2010): 13-37.

    • Chiasmi International: Publication trilingue autour de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty11 (Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2009): 375-398.

    • Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 40, no. 2 (2009): 207-227.

    • Research in Phenomenology,Vol. 38, no. 1 (2008): 41-71.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV (Summer 2007): 177-206.

    • “Vision, Mirror and Expression: The Genesis of the Ethical Body in Merleau-Ponty’s Later Works.”Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, ed. James Hatley, Janice McLane and Christian Diehm (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006), pp. 39-63.

    Chronological List (Selected Publications)


    • Research in Phenomenology, Volume 53, Issue 3 (2023): 279-307. OPEN ACCESS.
    • In Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology, ed. Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (Routledge, 2021), pp. 177–193.
    • Philosophy Today volume 64, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 821-826.
    • The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion, ed. Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 207–214.
    • The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 77, no. 4 (2019): 475–488. Special Issue on Race and Aesthetics, ed. A. W. Eaton and Charles Peterson.

    • In Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, ed. Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (Northwestern University Press, 2019), pp. 99–106.

    • In Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, ed. Andrea Pitts and Mark Westmoreland (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2019), pp. 13-35.

    • Co-Director's Address, SPEP Special Issue, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, no. 3 (2018): 331-359.

    • In Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, ed. Emily Anne Parker and Anne Van Leeuwen. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 21-53.

    • Traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Special issue on Pluriversalisme décolonial, ed. Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. TUMULTES (Éditions Kimé), no. 48 (2017): 51-70.

    • In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 143-154.

    • Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, ed. Emily Lee. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014), pp. 133-172. See the related to this article.

    • Insights,Vol. 6, no. 5 (2013): 1-13. Open access. This article deals with Fanon and the temporality of racialized experience.

    • Theory & Event15, no. 3 (September 2012). Supplement: “Printemps Érable—Quebec’s Maple Spring of 2012”, ed. Darin Barney, Brian Massumi, and Cayley Sorochan.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy50, no. 2 (June 2012): 351-61. SpecialSJP50th Anniversary Issue: “Continental Philosophy: What and Where Will It Be?,” ed. Ted Toadvine.

    • “Sartrean Freedom and Bad Faith: Social identities and situations.”Introducing Philosophy for Canadians,ed. Robert C. Solomon & Douglas McDermid (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 352-6.

    • Philosophy and Social Criticism36, no. 8 (2010): 875-902.

    • Bergson and Phenomenology,ed. Michael Kelly (Bathingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 148-173.

    • Special Issue on Phenomenology and Feminism,ed. Sara Heinämaa and Lanei Rodemeyer,Continental Philosophy Review43, no. 1 (2010): 13-37.

    • Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy 6, no. 1 (2010).

    • Chiasmi International: Publication trilingue autour de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty11 (Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2009): 375-398.

    • “Muslim Women and the Rhetoric of Freedom.”Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader,ed. Mariana Ortega and Linda Martín Alcoff (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009), pp. 65-87.

    • Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 40, no. 2 (2009): 207-227.

    • Les ateliers de l’éthique: la revue du CRÉUM, Vol. 3, no. 2 (2008): 39-55. Special Issue: Is Feminism Just for Feminists?/Le féminisme n’intéresserait-il que les féministes?, ed. Marguerite Deslauriers and Monique Lanoix.

    • Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 38, no. 1 (2008): 41-71.

    • The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV (Summer 2007): 177-206.

    • “Vision, Mirror and Expression: The Genesis of the Ethical Body in Merleau-Ponty’s Later Works.”Interrogating Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, ed. James Hatley, Janice McLane and Christian Diehm (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006), pp. 39-63.

    • “Bergson’sche Spuren in Sartres Philosophie: Emotion und Negation.”Über Sartre: Perspektiven und Kritiken, hrsg. von Thomas R. Flynn, Peter Kampits und Erik M. Vogt (Wien: Verlag Turia + Kant, 2005), pp. 17-54.

    • Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 37, no. 2 (2004): 203-239.

    Professional activities: 

    Public Philosophy

    • Televised Debate. 19 November, 2020, with MM McCabe, Tom Kasulis, and David Runciman, moderated by Ritula Shah (BBC).

    • New Statesman, February 4, 2019.

    • Listen to my podcast interview:. Par Carine Monat. 20%. . Sortie le 11 mars, 2019.

    Interviews

    • Interview with CKUT at McGill University on my research and Islamophobia, aired and , 2020.
    • Listen to my podcast interview: . Par Carine Monat. 20%. . Sortie le 11 mars, 2019.

    • Interview in French, July 11, 2017.

    • Interview with Emma Ryman. Published on the Rotman Institute of Philosophy Engaging Science Blog, June 10, 2013.

    • Interview at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, October 2012.

    • Interview for on December 6, 2008 in commemoration of the 1989 massacre at the École Polytechnique.

    • Interview for the documentary on Frantz Fanon entitled “The Wretched of the Earth” by David Austin, for CBC Radio One’s Ideas program (aired in Part One of the documentary on 25 October 2006).

    Positions in Professional Societies

    • Executive Co-Director, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), elected 2014-2017.

    • Founding Member and Co-Organizer, the Bergson Circle, 2016–present.

    • Member-at-large on the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), elected 2009-2012.

    • Nominating Committee, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (APA), elected 2015-2017.

    • Program Committee, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (APA), 2009-2011.

    • Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 2007-2009.

    Editor

    • Co-Editor,,2010­–present. With Amy Allen, Kathryn Sophia Belle, and José Medina.
    • Editor of the Feminist Philosophy section of the journal Philosophy Compass, 2012–present.

    Videos of Talks

    • Televised Debate. 19 November, 2020, with MM McCabe, Tom Kasulis, and David Runciman, moderated by Ritula Shah (BBC).

    • at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, March 2018. [Go to time index 31:30]

    • at the Symposium on Feminist Pedagogies: Listening, Hesitation, and Lived Possibilities at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, in April 2017. [Go to time index 42:00]

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