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Department of Philosophy
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario K9L 0G2
Canada
705-748-1011, x7449
kathrynnorlock.com
[email protected]
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, as Professor of Philosophy and The Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics, since 2010.
Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic, since 2023.
Associated faculty: Gender & Women's Studies (BA), Public Texts (MA).
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD, USA, as Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2007-2010; Assistant Professor, 2001-2007.
Cross-disciplinary program faculty: Environmental Studies; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
1998, 1999, 2000: University of Wisconsin-Madison, single-course instructor (as graduate student).
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2001, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. in Philosophy, 1999, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. in Political Science/Public Service, 1992, Northern Illinois University
AWARDS / FUNDING
Awards and honors, external:
Society of Women in Philosophy: Distinguished Philosopher of 2022
2018 PEA Soup Awards for "Best Discussion Originators" with Mariana Alessandri, a JMP Discussion of "Can't Complain," 2019.
Internal:
Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Trent University Faculty Association, 2023
Merit Award for Excellence in Research, Trent University Faculty Association, 2020
Merit Award for Excellence in Service, Trent University Faculty Association, 2017
Nominated by students for Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching, Trent University, 2011-2014, 2018-2019, 2022, 2024
Homer L. Dodge Award for Excellence in Teaching, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2007
Convocation speaker, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, May 2005
St. Mary’s College Pre-Tenure Research Award winner, Fall 2004
St. Mary's College of Maryland SGA Faculty Service Award, 2004, 2003
Grants, external:
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Aid to Journals grants, $55,820 for 2022-2025, and $60,330 for 2019-2022, for the open-access and peer-reviewed journal Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
SSHRC Connections grant, $25,000, in support of the Trent-Oakland cross-border conference of Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, 2022
NEH Summer Institute participant: “A Fierce Green Fire at 100: Aldo Leopold and the Roots of Environmental Ethics,” sponsored by the Arizona State University Institute for Humanities Research, Prescott, Arizona, June 22 – July 17, 2009
Grants, internal:
Trent University Centre for Teaching and Learning, $7,700 for hosting Distinguished Visiting Teaching Scholar, 2023
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Faculty Development Grants, awarded in 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005.
University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Grant-in-aid, 2007
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, Fall 1999
RESEARCH
Areas of Specialization: Moral Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
Areas of Competence and Professional Development: Applied/Practical Ethics, Gender Studies, Social/Political Philosophy, Forgiveness and Reconciliation Studies, Holocaust Studies, Environmental Philosophy, Critical Thinking
Monograph: Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, first edition 2009, second edition 2018.
Edited Collections:
2017 Bound collection, as editor and author of introduction, The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness, Rowman & Littlefield, the first in their new series, Moral Psychology of the Emotions.
2015 Journal issue, guest-edited, as co-editor: Journal of Social Philosophy, Special Issue: Miscarriage, Reproductive Loss, and Fetal Death. Spring 2015, Vol. 46 (1), co-edited and co-authored introduction with Ann J. Cahill (Elon University) and Byron J. Stoyles (Trent University).
2009 Journal issue, guest-edited, as co-editor: Hypatia, Special issue: Oppression and Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card. Winter 2009, Vol. 24 (1), co-edited with Andrea Veltman (James Madison University), and contributor.
2009 Bound collection, as co-editor and co-author of introduction, Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness, with Andrea Veltman (James Madison University).
Peer-reviewed Articles:
2021 “Misanthropy and Misanthropes,” Journal of Philosophical Research 46:45-58.
2019 “Perpetual Struggle,” Hypatia, Vol. 34, no.1, 6-19.
2018 “Can’t Complain,” Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol.15, Iss.2, 117–135.
2017 “Online Shaming,” Social Philosophy Today, Vol.33, 187-197.
“Real (and) Imaginal Relationships with the Dead,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol.51, no.2, pp. 341-356.
2016 “Grading (Anxious and Silent) Participation: Assessing student attendance and engagement with Short Papers on a ‘Question For Consideration,’” Teaching Philosophy, Vol.39, no.4.
2012 “Gender Perception as a Habit of Moral Perception: Implications for Philosophical Methodology and Introductory Curriculum,” for Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. XLIII (3), pp. 347-62.
2011 “Building Receptivity: Leopold’s Land Ethic and Critical Feminist Interpretation,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Vol.5, no.4,, pp. 493-512.
2009 “Forgivingness, Pessimism, and Environmental Citizenship,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 22, no. 6.
“A Moral Imperative: Retaining Women of Color in Education,” co-authored with Profs. Angela Johnson and Sybol Cook Anderson, Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, Vol. 33.
2008 “Self-forgiveness and Third-Party Forgiveness,” Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press,), ed. by David White and Stephen Schulman.
2004 “The Atrocity Paradigm applied to Environmental Evils,” Ethics and the Environment 9 (1).
Invited or Editor-reviewed contributions:
2023 “Forgiveness as a Volitional Commitment,” in Routledge Handbook of Forgiveness (eds. Glen Pettigrove and Robert Enright).
2022 “Forgiveness and Moral Repair,” in Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, Oxford University Press (eds. John Doris and Manuel Vargas).
2021 “Free and Always Will Be? On Social Media Participation as it Undermines Individual Autonomy,” for an invitation-only issue of Canadian Journal of Practical Philosophy (eds. Sandra Tomsons and Philip MacEwen), Vol. 5 (1): 52-65.
2020 “Forgiveness,” for Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Edited by Elinor Mason). Available at the following URL: https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/forgiveness/v-1
2019 “Feminist Ethics,” for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University (Executive Editors: Edward N. Zalta, Uri Nodelman, Colin Allen). Available at the following URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/
“White Women Misogynists,” as part of an invited symposium of review essays on Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, for the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 18(2), pp. 4-7.
2018 “Evil and Forgiveness,” invited chapter in the anthology, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evil, edited by Thomas Nys and Stephen de Wijze (Routledge).
“The Society for Analytical Feminism: Our Founding 25 Years Ago,” co-authored with Ann E. Cudd for Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism, ed. Pieranna Garavaso (Bloomsbury).
“Non-Ideal Theory and Gender Voluntarism in Against Purity,” as part of an invited symposium of review essays on Alexis Shotwell's Against Purity, for the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 18(1), pp. 2-5.
2017 “‘I don’t want the responsibility:’ The moral implications of avoiding dependency relations with companion animals.” Invited chapter in the anthology, Pets and People: Philosophy and Companion Animals, edited by Christine Overall (Oxford University Press).
“Giving Up, Expecting Hope, and Moral Transformation.” Contribution to Open Access collection, Reasonable Responses, invited and edited by Catherine Hundleby, University of Windsor: Windsor Studies in Argumentation. URL: ttps://windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/wsia/catalog/book/14
2016 “‘The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress’: Claudia Card’s contributions to the formation of Nonideal Ethical Theory.” Invited contribution, Metaphilosophy 47 (4-5), special issue co-edited by Robin S. Dillon and Armen Marsoobian (Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card).
“Doctor’s Orders: Menopause, Weight Change, and Feminism,” Invited narrative contribution, and subsequently anonymously peer-reviewed, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB), Vol. 9, no.2, special issue co-edited by Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs. URL: http://www.utpjournals.press/toc/ijfab/9/2
2014 "Receptivity as a Virtue of (Practitioners of) Argumentation," in Mohammed, D., & Lewiński, M. (Eds.), Virtues of Argumentation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 22-26 May 2013. Windsor, ON: OSSA, pp. 1-7. URL: http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA10/papersandcommentaries/121
2010 “Teaching ‘Against Marriage,’” in Ethics of the Family, ed. by Stephen Scales, Adam Potthast and Linda Oravecz (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).
2009 “Self-Inflicted Evils and Self-Forgiveness,” in Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card, ed. by Andrea Veltman and Kathryn J. Norlock, pp.159-174 (Lexington Books).
“Love to Count: Arguments for inaccurately measuring the proportion of philosophers who are women,” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 8 (2).
“The Limits of Forgiveness,” co-authored with Jean Rumsey, Hypatia (special issue, invited and edited by Andrea Veltman), Vol. 24 (1).
2008 “Ethics of Care,” entry, in the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Macmillan Reference USA / Thomson Gale.
2004 “The Case for our Widespread Dependency,” review essay, in Social Theory and Practice 30 (2), pp. 247-257.
2001 “Required of Ourselves: Forgiveness and Moral Obligation,” in The World of Forgiveness: The Periodical of the International Forgiveness Institute 4 (2), University of Wisconsin Press.
Book Reviews:
2018 Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne, for The Philosophers’ Magazine, Issue 80, pp. 117-119. https://www.philosophersmag.com/opinion/180-down-girl-by-kate-mann-2
2016 Moral Aims, by Cheshire Calhoun, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. URL: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/67569-moral-aims-essays-on-the-importance-of-getting-it-right-and-practicing-morality-with-others/
2013 Forgiveness and Love, by Glen Pettigrove, for Ethics 123(4).
2012 Forgiveness and Retribution, by Margaret Holmgren, for Philosophy in Review 32(6). URL: journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/index
2010 Nature Ethics, by Marti Kheel, for APA Bulletin on Feminism, 10(1).
2006 A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future, by Roger S. Gottlieb, solicited for Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal.
2005 People of the Bomb, by Hugh Gusterson, solicited for Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal.
2005 Philosophy of Love and Sex, 4th ed., edited by Alan Soble, in the APA Bulletin on Feminism, Vol. 5, No. 1.
2002 Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Psychotherapy, ed. by Sharon Lamb and Jeffrie Murphy, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Conference Presentations, peer-refereed:
2022 “We’re Going Backwards: The Possibility of Moral Regress.” Presented at the meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) at Oakland University.
2020 “Do I really Consent to Twitter’s Terms of Service?” Presented at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, February.
2018 “What do Women Want in a Feminist Ethics Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy?” Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Cape Breton University, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, September 28-30.
2016 "Feminists: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?" Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, November 4-6.
“Claudia Card’s contributions to emerging Non-Ideal (Ethical) Theory,” poster presentation at the Ninth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 11-14.
"Rethinking the Social Psychology of Public Power in Cyberspace's Imaginal Communities, or, Online Shaming," to be presented at the 33rd International Social Philosophy Conference at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from July 21-23.
2015 “Imaginal Relationships with the Dead,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Campion College at the University of Regina, October 23-25. Conference theme: Challenging Ontologies: Making Sense in Ethics, Science, Politics, and Art.
“Stranger in a Strange FOODLAND: Developing a Philosophy of Food course as a Newcomer,” presented as part of the Roundtable on Canadian Environmental Philosophy, at the Conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) at the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, June 1-3.
2014 “Must I Never Complain?” presented at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Philadelphia, December.
“On Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Improving Feminist Philosophies of Motherhood,” presented at the Conference of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 24-27.
2013 "Receptivity as a Virtue of Argumentation," presented at the Virtues of Argumentation conference (Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)) May 22- 25, at the University of Windsor.
2012 “Childlessness, Miscarriage, and Intersubjective bodily identity,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Oct 26-28. Conference theme: Theorizing the Body, Embodiment and Body-Practices.
2011 “Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception,” presented at the Pacific APA group session of the Society for Analytic Feminism, San Diego, Cal., April 20.
2010 “When We Long to Emigrate: Forgivingness, pessimism, and citizenship,” presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries (Inter-Disciplinary.net), Mansfield College at Oxford, United Kingdom, July 15 - July 17.
“The Moral Imperative for Social Science Research to Amend the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy,” presented at the International Association of Women in Philosophy Conference (IAPh 2010) on Feminism, Science and Values, June 25-28, at The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
2009 “Recognition, Self-Inflicted Evils and Self-Forgiveness,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), University Of Guelph, October 2-4; conference theme: “Responsiveness, Responsibility and Repair.”
“Feminism in the Classroom,” workshop panelist, and “Strategies for Success,” mentoring panelist, at the September 2009 conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST).
“Why bother?: Environmental pessimism, forgiveness, and electoral participation,” presented at the Pacific APA, Society for Women In Philosophy panel, Vancouver, Canada (April).
2008 “Teaching ‘Against Marriage,’” presented at the 10th Annual Ethics Across the Curriculum conference, sponsored by Towson University, Baltimore, MD (November 14-16,).
“Why Our Students Stay: Strategies for retention and teaching of women of color in STEM disciplines,” presented at the National Association for Research and Science Teaching (April).
“Why Self-forgiveness Needs Third-Party Forgiveness,” presented at the 1st Global Conference: Forgiveness – Probing the Boundaries, Salzburg, Austria (March).
2007 “A Moral Imperative: Professionalizing Women,” presented at the UK Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP-UK) Conference, University of Nottingham, University Park campus, Nottingham, England (November 22–23).
“Race and the Academy: What we can and should do,” presented at The National Women’s Studies Association 28th Annual Conference, St. Charles, Illinois (June 28-30).
"Why (Some) Women of Color are (Still) in Science,” presented at Gender Balance/ Gender Bias: The 6th International Gender and Education Association Conference, Trinity College Dublin (March 28-30).
“Women’s Altruism and Academic Professions,” presented at Educating Women/Women’s Education In the Post-Secondary Context, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (February 8-10).
2006 “The Impossibility of Responding Ethically to Environmental Atrocity,” presented at the group session of the International Society for Environmental Ethics at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (December 28).
“The politics of pedagogy: Global warming, public policy, and the ethics of identifying controversy,” presented at the 32nd Annual Richard R. Baker Colloquium in Philosophy, on Environmental Philosophy and the Duties of Citizenship, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio (October 13).
2004 “Meaningful Narrative and Genuine Forgiveness,” presented at the special session of The Society for Analytical Feminism at the Central APA (April).
2000 “Humility and Moral Luck,” presented at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis (February).
1998 “Forgiving the wrongdoer for harms to others: A defense of third-party forgiveness,” at the Central Division Meeting of the Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP), Loyola University in Chicago.
Invited presentations
2023 “Complaining as a skill, a duty, and a virtue,” Coastal Carolina University, Jackson Family Center for Ethics and Values (April).
“What Comes Before and After Feminism,” University of Louisville, McConnell Center for Leadership, Scholarship, and Service (March).
2022 “Do You Feel Like I Do,” for the Expanding Empathy 2022 lecture series of the Rock Ethics Institute (online) at The Pennsylvania State University (April 20).
St. Lawrence University - Pedagogy Talk for Tutors w/ Kate Norlock (April 27, online).
2021 “This is Not Normal: Moral Regress as a Negative Normative Transformation,” University of Manitoba, Philosophy Department colloquium (January, online).
2020 “Pandemics end but Struggles are Perpetual,” University of Arizona, speaker series of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom (June, online).
Panelist, “APA Committee Session: Women and Online Philosophy,” arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, with Julinna Oxley (Chair), Regina Rini, Adriel M. Trott, Helen De Cruz, and Saba Fatima, for The American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 117th Annual Meeting, Chicago, February.
2019 Colloquium, “Do I really Consent to Twitter’s Terms of Service,” Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, October 28, 2019.
Keynote, "Online Shaming and the Hijacking of our Minds." Consent and Truth-Telling Conference, sponsored by Centre de Recherche en Éthique, McGill University, Montreal, May 10, 2019.
Editors’ panel, APA Committee Session: On Publishing Ethics in Philosophy, Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research, The American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 93rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April 19.
42nd Fritz Marti lecture, “Blaming, Online Shaming, and Grandstanding,” Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, April 12.
2018 Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, at the Canadian Philosophical Association meeting (CPA), June 5.
“Online Shaming and Imaginal Relationships,” joint address to St. Paul’s University and co-sponsored by the Ethics & Public Affairs programs at Carleton University, March 20.
Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity, at the Central Chapter meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), February 21-24.
Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Guelph, February 16.
2017 Moral Emotions workshop, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad del Rosario. Justin D’Arms (OSU), Kathryn Norlock (Trent U), and David Shoemaker (Tulane). Bogota, Colombia, October 19-21.
“If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” as Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Connecticut (Storrs), September 8.
“If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” Workshop on Blame and Forgiveness, University of Oslo, Aug. 23-24.
“Online Shaming, Part Two” for the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association at the Congress of the Humanities, Joint session (CPA-NASSP), Gender and the Politics of Cyberspace, May 31.
“Perpetual Struggle: Pessimism, Evils, and Hopeless Situations,” for The Nature and Norms of Hope, a conference of the project on Hope & Optimism: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations, Cornell University, April 27-29.
“Forgiveness as a Speech Act,” presented to Florida State University's Conference to Honor David McNaughton, Sponsored by the Werkmeister Bequest, March 24-25.
2016 "Pessimism, Evils, and Hopeless Situations," colloquium presentation to Queen's University Philosophy Department, October 27.
“Forgiveness and Evil,” presented at the conference, Understanding Evil. University of Amsterdam, jointly sponsored with University of Manchester, May.
The Walter Murray Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan. Presentation titles: “Real (and) Imaginal Relationships with the Dead” (public lecture), “Nonideal Ethical Theory” and “Forgiving the Dead” (seminars), March.
“The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress,” presented as part of a memorial session of The Society for Analytical Feminism in honor of Claudia Card, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), January 6.
2015 “Don’t wait for progress,” a presentation to Rice University’s Why So Few workshop series, October 16.
“We Know What Works,” presented at the First Annual Event of the Equity and Climate Committee, McGill University, Montreal, QC, March 27.
2014 Plenary Panel, invited participant, American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), August 1, on the theme, “Women Undergraduates, Justice, and the Future of Philosophy,” with Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University), Jeanine Weekes-Schroer (University of Minnesota-Duluth), and Jean Keller (College of St. Benedicts), at the 20th Biennial International Workshop hosted by the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University.
Three presentations at the Conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) at the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University: “Pessimism and Evils,” May 25, “Beyond Accommodation,” May 26, and “Expose yourself: Blogging in the profession,” May 28.
“Giving Up and Knowing Better: Forgiveness After Genocide/ Moins d’espoir, plus de sagesse: Pardon après le genocide,” Colloque 2014 : Génocides : régimes du pardon/Genocides: regimes of forgiveness, May 12.
Keynote address, “Choosing Activism and/or Philosophy,” for the Philosophy Dans La Rue!: Activism and Philosophy in the 21st Century conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, May 10-11.
“Civility, Civil Discourse, and Epistemic Injustice, or, Well-Educated White Ladies Talk About Manners,” co-presented with Alice MacLachlan, invited presentation, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland, April 4.
“The Status of Women in Philosophy,” invited presentation, Queen's University Workshop on Equity in Philosophy, Kingston, ON, March 14.
"My First-World Problems: The Ethics of Women's Advancement in Philosophy." Keynote Speech, The 9th Annual Society for Women’s Advancement in Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 21.
2013 Panelist, “Men Behaving Splendidly: Why and How to Organize a Gender-Balanced Conference,” with Jason Stanley and John Protevi, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 29.
Panelist, workshop mentor, 2nd Biennial Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, at University of Massachusetts – Amherst, co-directed by Dr. Louise Antony (UMass) and Dr. Ann Cudd (University of Kentucky), June 2-4.
2012 Keynote speaker, “We Know What Works: How to Improve Philosophy for Everyone,” at The Status of Minorities in Philosophy: Graduate Conference and Workshop at Concordia and McGill Universities, Montreal, April 21-22.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “How Kind and Caring Ethicists Talked Me Right Into Pessimism.” The Socratic Society, April 6.
Lafayette College Environment Ethics Conference, “‘That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best’: Non-ideal Pessimism as a Response to Environmental Evils,” March 24.
University of Western Ontario, “Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception.” Philosophy Colloquium, co-sponsored with Women's Studies and Feminist Research, March 2.
2011 Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, “Sara Ruddick and Evils,” Special Session in Memory of Sara Ruddick, October 16.
2010 Elon University, Annual Reynolds Lecture: “Forgiveness as Moral Housekeeping,” April.
“Fragmented Selves and Self-Forgiveness,” Feminist Philosophy Workshop, Goucher College, sponsored by the Women in Philosophy (WIP) club in the Department of Philosophy, March 5-6.
2006 Ball State University: “Taking My Name: Separatism and Feminist Epistemology,” March 16, “Forgiveness for Philosophers,” March 17.
2005 St. Mary’s Ryken High School, Leonardtown, Maryland: “Forgiving for Teachers and Counselors,” October 20.
2004 “Hitler was a Vegetarian, or, Moral Qualms about Deep Ecology,” at Carleton College, January.
“Forgiveness in Relationship: The explanatory power of feminist models,” at University of San Diego, February.
1997 Panel discussion member of UW Zoology Dept. Faculty/Staff Colloquia, Spring. Topic: “What moral treatment do animals deserve?”
Conference Activity: Commentator or Chair
2023 Eastern APA 2023, chair for Author Meets Critics: Susan Brison, Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self—Twenty Years Later, Montreal (January).
2022 Pacific APA 2022: (1) Commentary for author-meets-critics session, in honor of Hope Under Oppression by Katie Stockdale, Vancouver, April 13-16, and (2) chair of APA Committee Session: Who’s Managing Pandemic Burnout?, arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women.
2021 Pacific APA 2021 online: Commentary for “Invited Symposium: The Ethics of Anger.” Speakers: Myisha Cherry (University of California, Riverside) and R. Jay Wallace (University of California, Berkeley). Chair: Joan McGregor (University of Arizona).
Central APA 2021 online: Chair, Invited Symposium: Misanthropy. Speakers: Ian James Kidd (University of Nottingham), Lisa Gerber (University of New Mexico), David E. Cooper (Durham University).
Eastern APA 2021 online: Chair, Memorial session in honor of Maria Lugones. Presenters: Pedro DiPietro (Syracuse University), Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota), Mariana Ortega (The Pennsylvania State University)
2020 American Philosophical Association (APA), Central Division, February: chair, APA Committee Session: Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Publishing, arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women.
2019 American Philosophical Association (APA), Pacific Division, April 19: commentary on Tori McGeer’s presentation, “Empathy Internalized: On the scaffolding power of self-directed emotion” (panelist with Cheshire Calhoun, Julia Driver and Karen Jones).
2018 Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), June 7: commentary on Joshua Brandt’s presentation, “Forgiveness and Negative Partiality.”
2017 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 11-14: commentary on Per-Erik Milam’s presentation, “Against Elective Forgiveness.”
2016 Eastern APA, Washington, D.C., January 7: “Preserving Forgiveness,” commentary on Nicolas Cornell’s colloquium paper, “The Possibility of Preemptive Forgiving.”
2014 Central States Philosophical Association, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October: “Mapping Moral Repair,” commentary on Benjamin Almassi’s paper, “Moral Repair and Ecological Restoration,” and sessions-chair.
2013 Central APA, New Orleans, February: "Expecting Bad News," commentary on Judith Andre's paper, "Humility as Affirmative Capacity."
2012 Central APA, Chicago, February: “Mea Culpa,” commentary on Luke Phillips’ symposium paper, “Contempt and the Capacity for Evil”; Chair, group session of Society for Analytical Feminism, and commentary on Ben Almassi’s paper, “Feminist Reclamations of Masculinity.”
2011 Pacific APA, San Diego, April: APA Committee Session: Philosophy Undisciplined: A Broader Vision of Accountability, Arranged by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy; chair and commentator.
2009 Central APA, Chicago, February: “Radical Hope for Living Well in a Warmer World,” commentator; “Buddhism and Care Ethics,” commentator.
2008 Central APA, Chicago, April: “Saving Strawson” commentator.
2006 University of Freiburg, June 7: “Memory and Vulnerability: Forgiveness and Shame,” Session chair and Commentator, International Association of Philosophy and Literature.
TEACHING
Graduate Student Supervision outside of Trent University: Guelph University, Dissertation (Philosophy), committee member for Amber Spence, “The Harms of Rape”
External examiner, dissertation defenses: (1) University of Waterloo, Doctoral program in Philosophy; candidate Vanessa Correia, “Harm Reduction for Corporations,” 2020; (2) Sheffield University, Doctoral program in Philosophy; candidate Cristina Roadevin, “Blame and Forgiveness,” 2016
Graduate Student Supervision or Committee Participation, at Trent University:
Dissertation (Cultural Studies), internal-external examiner for Amy Vosper, “Women in Horror: On the Screen, In the Scene, Behind the Screams” defended May 17, 2021.
Thesis committee member (English/Public Texts, M.A.) for Ross Chiasson, “All I’ve Found is Pain and Terror: Aesthetics and Moral Status in Contemporary Popular Narratives,” defended May 23, 2018.
Thesis committee member (Cultural Studies, M.A.), for Isaac Jiang, “Visions of the Sedentary “I”: Subjectivation in The Little Prince,” defended September 2017.
Thesis Supervisor (Sustainability Studies, M.A.), for Gordon Halsey, “How Christian and Indigenous spirituality motivates health and social services: Exploring a holistic view of social sustainability at a personal level in a Canadian urban context,” defended August 16, 2016.
First-year Supervisor (Sustainability Studies, M.A.), for Emma Langley, “Indigenous Food Insecurity,” 2015-2016.
Dissertation committee member (Cultural Studies), for Joanna Wasiak, “Learning Renaturalization,” defended September 25, 2015.
Thesis Reader (Theory, Culture, and Politics, M.A.), for Adam Rejak, “The Ethics of Being With: Exploring Ethics and Politics in Heidegger’s Being and Time,” defended August 18, 2014.
Thesis Reader (Theory, Culture, and Politics, M.A.), for Daniel Harris, “Background Practices, Affordances, and The Frame Problem: A Heideggerian Critique of The Representationalist Metaphysic,” defended August 12, 2013.
Thesis Supervisor (Sustainability Studies, M.A.), for Emily McCullogh, “The Value of Personal relationships in Relation to the Success of Aid Programs: Experiences of Aid Workers in Post-Earthquake Haiti,” defended August 16, 2012.
Undergraduate Courses developed at Trent University:
First-year: Introduction to Philosophy: Moral and Political
Second-year: Love and Desire, Moral Issues (Applied Ethics), Feminism and Philosophy (introductory)
Third-year: Social and Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Classic Texts in Ethical Theories, Contemporary Ethical Theories, and Philosophy, Gender, & Feminism (as well as Directed Reading Courses)
Fourth-year: Major Texts (Kant’s Ethics), Advanced Topics in Value Theory Seminars (including Responses to Evil, Forgiveness and Mercy, Propaganda, and Misanthropy & Pessimism) (as well as Directed Reading Courses)
Undergraduate Courses developed at St. Mary’s College of Maryland:
First-year: Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, First-Year Seminar: The Ecological Conscience, Honors Program Seminar: Trust in Leadership
Second-year: Environmental Perspectives, Critical Thinking, Introduction to Gender Studies, Introduction to Women’s Studies
Third-year: Environmental Ethics, Research Methods proseminar
Fourth-year: Ethical Theory, Advanced Topics in Value Theory Seminars (including Collective Responsibility, Responses to Evil, Anger and Forgiveness)
SERVICE
Editorial: Co-founder and co-editor, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (since 2015)
Administrative: At Trent University
Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic (2023- )
Acting Chair, Gender and Social Justice, September 2022-2023
Faculty Senate, 2022-2023, 2014-2015
Human Rights Degree Program working group, 2022-2023
SSHRC Research Grants Committee member, 2022
Cyclical Program Review Committee member, 2016 - 2021 (formerly Program Quality Assurance Committee, 2011-2012)
Chair, Department of Philosophy, 2012-2015
Acting Chair, Modern Languages and Literatures, 2014-2015
Faculty Council member, 2013-2015
Trent University Faculty Association, Executive Committee, Member-At-Large, 2014-2015
Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity & Accessibility, 2014-2015
Presidential Advisory Committee on Academic Partnerships with Religious Institutions, 2012-2013
Academic Advising sub-committee of Teaching and Learning Support, 2012-2013
Advancement Committee, 2012
Ontario Trillium Scholarship review committee, 2011
Graduate Studies Committee, 2010-2011
Tenure review committee member, external to other departments
Search committee member, external to other departments
Professional organizations:
APA Committee on the Status of Women, Chair 2019-2022, Associate Chair 2018-2019, committee member 2009-2012 [www.apaonlinecsw.org]
Canadian Philosophical Association, ex officio as program chair 2020-2021
Rowman & Littlefield, Moral Psychology of the Emotions (series), Editorial Board member, 2015-2019.
Society for Analytic Feminism (SAF), an affiliated group of the APA, President, 2015-2018, Executive committee member, 2010-2012.
APA Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Harassment, chair, 2013-2015
Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) Secretary 2019-2021, President 2012-13, Vice-Pres. 2011-12
Women In Philosophy Task Force, 2009-2015
External program reviewer for undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Philosophy in the USA and Canada
External referee for candidates for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor and candidates for Full Professor, USA and Canada
Public relations or media:
2022 Interviews on U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade with Global News’s Morning Show on CHEX-Peterborough, with PtboToday/FREQ90.5 with Jordan Mercier, and Peterborough Examiner
Interview for Ontario Morning for CBC on Nov.2, on the subject of women in politics: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-112-ontario-morning-from-cbc-radio/clip/15875874-ontario-morning-tuesday-november-2-2021-
Podcast interview to Penn State University’s podcast, called Lecture n. 7, for their Expanding Empathy series: https://vimeo.com/696292492/b50d092a7f
Interview on forgiveness for FIRST for Women magazine, for their feature called "Stress SOS," on the ethical risks and emotional benefits of forgiveness.
2021 “Rise Up, Fellow Complainers, Let’s Be Vulnerable Together,” solicited for Psyche, a digital magazine from Aeon, first published Feb. 5, URL: https://psyche.co/ideas/rise-up-fellow-complainers-lets-be-vulnerable-together
“Blaming Uncivil Characters (If They Exist),” for Syndicate, as part of a symposium of responses to Michelle Ciurria’s book, An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility. URL: https://syndicate.network/symposia/philosophy/an-intersectional-feminist-theory-of-moral-responsibility/
2020 Podcast interview, on “Perpetual Struggle,” for Freedom Center Today, with Freedom Center Managing Director, James Harrigan, recording June 25, 2020
Podcast interview, on “Can’t Complain,” for Journal Entries, with Wes Buckwalter, air date June 4, 2020. URL: https://journalentries.fireside.fm/norlock
Interview for Alanna Mitchell, Broadview columnist, on the subject of climate change: https://broadview.org/green-shaming-climate-crisis/
2019 Interview, CBC Sunday Edition, “How complaining can actually bring us closer together,” with Michael Enright, air date October 27, 2019.
Interview, The UnMute Podcast, with Myisha Cherry, Episode 42, “Kathryn Norlock on Complaining & Shaming,” February 11, 2019. URL: https://unmutetalk.podbean.com/e/episode-042-kathryn-norlock-on-complaining-shaming/
Invited blog post, “Reflective practice exercise,” for The Philosophers’ Cocoon, edited by Helen de Cruz. URL: https://bit.ly/2x4koH4
2018 “Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss,” for Radical Philosophy, radio program on 3CR in Melbourne Australia. [3cr.org.au/radicalphilosophy] June 27.
“Free Speech,” solicited for Trent Magazine, Summer.
Interview, with Mark Norris Lance and Michael Doan: Roundtable on Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, for Blog of the APA, July 3. URL: https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/07/03/against-purity-living-ethically-in-compromised-times/
Blog Post: “Against Lynching as a Case ‘Against Empathy’” for Blog of the APA, June 27. URL: https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/06/27/against-lynching-as-a-case-against-empathy/
Comment for “Why Philly sexual assault victims look to Facebook for 'street justice,’” by Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1.
“We Can Act: Lessons learned in Philosophy from the APA ad hoc committee on sexual harassment in the profession,” solicited for CSWEP News (Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession), a subcommittee of the American Economic Association; special issue on sexual harassment edited by Jennifer Shinall.
2017 Interview with Avery Kolers for SoundCloud’s Ethics Forward!, “Online Shaming,” Episode 1, July 13. https://soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward-radio/ethics-forward-online-shaming
“Public Forgiveness; Unforgiving Public,” invited post for The Spoke, the blog of the Albright Institute at Wellesley College. URL: http://www.wellesley.edu/albright/about/blog/3441-public-forgiveness-unforgiving-public
“Assignment - Find a Political Philosop-her,” solicited for The Deviant Philosopher, a teaching resource website for philosophers interested in deviating from the traditional Anglo-American philosophical canon. URL: http://thedeviantphilosopher.org/Activities/Assignment-FindAPoliticalPhilosop-her
2016 Invited blog post on refereeing, for Blog of the APA. Post title: “Referees: When Is an Objection Grounds for Rejection?” URL: http://blog.apaonline.org/2016/01/28/referees-when-is-an-objectiongrounds-for-rejection/
2015 Blog Post: “A dreadful night for Paris, a good night to help refugees,” at Feminist Philosophers. URL: https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/a-dreadful-night-for-paris-agood-night-to-help-refugees/
Invited blog post, “Survivors and Resisters,” at Daily Nous, for the ‘Philosophers on Star Wars’ cluster. URL:dailynous.com/2015/12/21/philosophers-on-star-wars-the-force-awakens-spoilers/
2014 Invited blog post: “This Time I Mean It: New Year’s Resolutions, Self-Forgiveness, and Fitness,” April 25, solicited for Fit is a Feminist Issue. URL: http://fitisafeministissue.com/2014/04/25/thistimei-mean-it-new-years-resolutions-self-forgiveness-and-fitness-guest-post/
2013 Invited blog post: “Beginner’s Love (Guest Post),” August 17, solicited for Fit is a Feminist Issue. URL: http://fitisafeministissue.com/2013/08/17/beginners-love-guest-post/
Conference Organization
2022 Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), reviewer and co-grant applicant
2020-2021, Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) annual meeting at Congress of the Humanities, program chair
2019-2020, Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) annual meeting at Congress of the Humanities, associate chair and area-chair for submissions in feminist philosophy, ethics
2019 CSWIP, program chair for annual conference, October, at University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.
2019-2022, between three and six sessions annually, for the three division meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA), as chair of the Committee on the Status of Women
2018-2015, between three and six sessions annually for the three division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, as President of Society for Analytic Feminism (SAF), an affiliated group of the APA
2018 North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP), program chair for annual conference, July at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
2017 North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP), program committee member for annual conference, July 2017 at Loyola University in Chicago.
2016 Society for Analytic Feminism (SAF), program committee member ex officio, for September conference, Analytical Feminism: Past, Present, & Future, at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
2015 C-SWIP, peer-review and program coordinator for annual conference October, at Campion College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.
2013 Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (C-SWIP), annual conference host and site organizer, October, at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.
2012 Society for Analytic Feminism (SAF), co-program coordinator, for October conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
2011 Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (C-SWIP), peer-review and program coordinator, for October conference in Victoria, B.C.
2006 CardFest 2006: Morality, Luck and Identity, at University of Wisconsin-Madison, in celebration of Claudia Card's 65th birthday, April 14-15. Original presentations included philosophers Victoria Davion, Marilyn Friedman, Virginia Held, Hilde Lindemann, David Concepcion, Elizabeth Spelman, Lisa Tessman, Lynne Tirrell, and Margaret Urban Walker.
1997 Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP), Midwest Division Meeting, UW-Madison, March. Presented (as a member of a panel) a discussion paper, “The Disvalue of Forgiveness.”
Publishers for which I referee proposals: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, Routledge Publishing, Palgrave-MacMillan, Princeton University Press, Rowman & Littlefield
Refereeing for conferences: Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), American Philosophical Association (APA), Society for Analytical Feminism (SAF), Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), 4th Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference (PCPC)
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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, as Professor of Philosophy and The Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics, since 2010.
Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic, since 2023.
Associated faculty: Gender & Women's Studies (BA), Public Texts (MA).
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD, USA, as Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2007-2010; Assistant Professor, 2001-2007.
Cross-disciplinary program faculty: Environmental Studies; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
1998, 1999, 2000: University of Wisconsin-Madison, single-course instructor (as graduate student).
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2001, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. in Philosophy, 1999, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. in Political Science/Public Service, 1992, Northern Illinois University
AWARDS / FUNDING
Awards and honors, external:
Society of Women in Philosophy: Distinguished Philosopher of 2022
2018 PEA Soup Awards for "Best Discussion Originators" with Mariana Alessandri, a JMP Discussion of "Can't Complain," 2019.
Internal:
Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Trent University Faculty Association, 2023
Merit Award for Excellence in Research, Trent University Faculty Association, 2020
Merit Award for Excellence in Service, Trent University Faculty Association, 2017
Nominated by students for Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching, Trent University, 2011-2014, 2018-2019, 2022, 2024
Homer L. Dodge Award for Excellence in Teaching, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2007
Convocation speaker, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, May 2005
St. Mary’s College Pre-Tenure Research Award winner, Fall 2004
St. Mary's College of Maryland SGA Faculty Service Award, 2004, 2003
Grants, external:
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Aid to Journals grants, $55,820 for 2022-2025, and $60,330 for 2019-2022, for the open-access and peer-reviewed journal Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
SSHRC Connections grant, $25,000, in support of the Trent-Oakland cross-border conference of Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, 2022
NEH Summer Institute participant: “A Fierce Green Fire at 100: Aldo Leopold and the Roots of Environmental Ethics,” sponsored by the Arizona State University Institute for Humanities Research, Prescott, Arizona, June 22 – July 17, 2009
Grants, internal:
Trent University Centre for Teaching and Learning, $7,700 for hosting Distinguished Visiting Teaching Scholar, 2023
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Faculty Development Grants, awarded in 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005.
University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Grant-in-aid, 2007
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, Fall 1999
RESEARCH
Areas of Specialization: Moral Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
Areas of Competence and Professional Development: Applied/Practical Ethics, Gender Studies, Social/Political Philosophy, Forgiveness and Reconciliation Studies, Holocaust Studies, Environmental Philosophy, Critical Thinking
Monograph: Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, first edition 2009, second edition 2018.
Edited Collections:
2017 Bound collection, as editor and author of introduction, The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness, Rowman & Littlefield, the first in their new series, Moral Psychology of the Emotions.
2015 Journal issue, guest-edited, as co-editor: Journal of Social Philosophy, Special Issue: Miscarriage, Reproductive Loss, and Fetal Death. Spring 2015, Vol. 46 (1), co-edited and co-authored introduction with Ann J. Cahill (Elon University) and Byron J. Stoyles (Trent University).
2009 Journal issue, guest-edited, as co-editor: Hypatia, Special issue: Oppression and Agency: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card. Winter 2009, Vol. 24 (1), co-edited with Andrea Veltman (James Madison University), and contributor.
2009 Bound collection, as co-editor and co-author of introduction, Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness, with Andrea Veltman (James Madison University).
Peer-reviewed Articles:
2021 “Misanthropy and Misanthropes,” Journal of Philosophical Research 46:45-58.
2019 “Perpetual Struggle,” Hypatia, Vol. 34, no.1, 6-19.
2018 “Can’t Complain,” Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol.15, Iss.2, 117–135.
2017 “Online Shaming,” Social Philosophy Today, Vol.33, 187-197.
“Real (and) Imaginal Relationships with the Dead,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol.51, no.2, pp. 341-356.
2016 “Grading (Anxious and Silent) Participation: Assessing student attendance and engagement with Short Papers on a ‘Question For Consideration,’” Teaching Philosophy, Vol.39, no.4.
2012 “Gender Perception as a Habit of Moral Perception: Implications for Philosophical Methodology and Introductory Curriculum,” for Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. XLIII (3), pp. 347-62.
2011 “Building Receptivity: Leopold’s Land Ethic and Critical Feminist Interpretation,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Vol.5, no.4,, pp. 493-512.
2009 “Forgivingness, Pessimism, and Environmental Citizenship,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 22, no. 6.
“A Moral Imperative: Retaining Women of Color in Education,” co-authored with Profs. Angela Johnson and Sybol Cook Anderson, Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, Vol. 33.
2008 “Self-forgiveness and Third-Party Forgiveness,” Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press,), ed. by David White and Stephen Schulman.
2004 “The Atrocity Paradigm applied to Environmental Evils,” Ethics and the Environment 9 (1).
Invited or Editor-reviewed contributions:
2023 “Forgiveness as a Volitional Commitment,” in Routledge Handbook of Forgiveness (eds. Glen Pettigrove and Robert Enright).
2022 “Forgiveness and Moral Repair,” in Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, Oxford University Press (eds. John Doris and Manuel Vargas).
2021 “Free and Always Will Be? On Social Media Participation as it Undermines Individual Autonomy,” for an invitation-only issue of Canadian Journal of Practical Philosophy (eds. Sandra Tomsons and Philip MacEwen), Vol. 5 (1): 52-65.
2020 “Forgiveness,” for Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Edited by Elinor Mason). Available at the following URL: https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/forgiveness/v-1
2019 “Feminist Ethics,” for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University (Executive Editors: Edward N. Zalta, Uri Nodelman, Colin Allen). Available at the following URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/
“White Women Misogynists,” as part of an invited symposium of review essays on Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, for the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 18(2), pp. 4-7.
2018 “Evil and Forgiveness,” invited chapter in the anthology, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evil, edited by Thomas Nys and Stephen de Wijze (Routledge).
“The Society for Analytical Feminism: Our Founding 25 Years Ago,” co-authored with Ann E. Cudd for Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism, ed. Pieranna Garavaso (Bloomsbury).
“Non-Ideal Theory and Gender Voluntarism in Against Purity,” as part of an invited symposium of review essays on Alexis Shotwell's Against Purity, for the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 18(1), pp. 2-5.
2017 “‘I don’t want the responsibility:’ The moral implications of avoiding dependency relations with companion animals.” Invited chapter in the anthology, Pets and People: Philosophy and Companion Animals, edited by Christine Overall (Oxford University Press).
“Giving Up, Expecting Hope, and Moral Transformation.” Contribution to Open Access collection, Reasonable Responses, invited and edited by Catherine Hundleby, University of Windsor: Windsor Studies in Argumentation. URL: ttps://windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/wsia/catalog/book/14
2016 “‘The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress’: Claudia Card’s contributions to the formation of Nonideal Ethical Theory.” Invited contribution, Metaphilosophy 47 (4-5), special issue co-edited by Robin S. Dillon and Armen Marsoobian (Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card).
“Doctor’s Orders: Menopause, Weight Change, and Feminism,” Invited narrative contribution, and subsequently anonymously peer-reviewed, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB), Vol. 9, no.2, special issue co-edited by Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs. URL: http://www.utpjournals.press/toc/ijfab/9/2
2014 "Receptivity as a Virtue of (Practitioners of) Argumentation," in Mohammed, D., & Lewiński, M. (Eds.), Virtues of Argumentation. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 22-26 May 2013. Windsor, ON: OSSA, pp. 1-7. URL: http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA10/papersandcommentaries/121
2010 “Teaching ‘Against Marriage,’” in Ethics of the Family, ed. by Stephen Scales, Adam Potthast and Linda Oravecz (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).
2009 “Self-Inflicted Evils and Self-Forgiveness,” in Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card, ed. by Andrea Veltman and Kathryn J. Norlock, pp.159-174 (Lexington Books).
“Love to Count: Arguments for inaccurately measuring the proportion of philosophers who are women,” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 8 (2).
“The Limits of Forgiveness,” co-authored with Jean Rumsey, Hypatia (special issue, invited and edited by Andrea Veltman), Vol. 24 (1).
2008 “Ethics of Care,” entry, in the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Macmillan Reference USA / Thomson Gale.
2004 “The Case for our Widespread Dependency,” review essay, in Social Theory and Practice 30 (2), pp. 247-257.
2001 “Required of Ourselves: Forgiveness and Moral Obligation,” in The World of Forgiveness: The Periodical of the International Forgiveness Institute 4 (2), University of Wisconsin Press.
Book Reviews:
2018 Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne, for The Philosophers’ Magazine, Issue 80, pp. 117-119. https://www.philosophersmag.com/opinion/180-down-girl-by-kate-mann-2
2016 Moral Aims, by Cheshire Calhoun, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. URL: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/67569-moral-aims-essays-on-the-importance-of-getting-it-right-and-practicing-morality-with-others/
2013 Forgiveness and Love, by Glen Pettigrove, for Ethics 123(4).
2012 Forgiveness and Retribution, by Margaret Holmgren, for Philosophy in Review 32(6). URL: journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/index
2010 Nature Ethics, by Marti Kheel, for APA Bulletin on Feminism, 10(1).
2006 A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future, by Roger S. Gottlieb, solicited for Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal.
2005 People of the Bomb, by Hugh Gusterson, solicited for Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal.
2005 Philosophy of Love and Sex, 4th ed., edited by Alan Soble, in the APA Bulletin on Feminism, Vol. 5, No. 1.
2002 Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Psychotherapy, ed. by Sharon Lamb and Jeffrie Murphy, for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Conference Presentations, peer-refereed:
2022 “We’re Going Backwards: The Possibility of Moral Regress.” Presented at the meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) at Oakland University.
2020 “Do I really Consent to Twitter’s Terms of Service?” Presented at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, February.
2018 “What do Women Want in a Feminist Ethics Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy?” Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Cape Breton University, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, September 28-30.
2016 "Feminists: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?" Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, November 4-6.
“Claudia Card’s contributions to emerging Non-Ideal (Ethical) Theory,” poster presentation at the Ninth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 11-14.
"Rethinking the Social Psychology of Public Power in Cyberspace's Imaginal Communities, or, Online Shaming," to be presented at the 33rd International Social Philosophy Conference at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from July 21-23.
2015 “Imaginal Relationships with the Dead,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Campion College at the University of Regina, October 23-25. Conference theme: Challenging Ontologies: Making Sense in Ethics, Science, Politics, and Art.
“Stranger in a Strange FOODLAND: Developing a Philosophy of Food course as a Newcomer,” presented as part of the Roundtable on Canadian Environmental Philosophy, at the Conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) at the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, June 1-3.
2014 “Must I Never Complain?” presented at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Philadelphia, December.
“On Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Improving Feminist Philosophies of Motherhood,” presented at the Conference of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 24-27.
2013 "Receptivity as a Virtue of Argumentation," presented at the Virtues of Argumentation conference (Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)) May 22- 25, at the University of Windsor.
2012 “Childlessness, Miscarriage, and Intersubjective bodily identity,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Oct 26-28. Conference theme: Theorizing the Body, Embodiment and Body-Practices.
2011 “Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception,” presented at the Pacific APA group session of the Society for Analytic Feminism, San Diego, Cal., April 20.
2010 “When We Long to Emigrate: Forgivingness, pessimism, and citizenship,” presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries (Inter-Disciplinary.net), Mansfield College at Oxford, United Kingdom, July 15 - July 17.
“The Moral Imperative for Social Science Research to Amend the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy,” presented at the International Association of Women in Philosophy Conference (IAPh 2010) on Feminism, Science and Values, June 25-28, at The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
2009 “Recognition, Self-Inflicted Evils and Self-Forgiveness,” presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), University Of Guelph, October 2-4; conference theme: “Responsiveness, Responsibility and Repair.”
“Feminism in the Classroom,” workshop panelist, and “Strategies for Success,” mentoring panelist, at the September 2009 conference of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST).
“Why bother?: Environmental pessimism, forgiveness, and electoral participation,” presented at the Pacific APA, Society for Women In Philosophy panel, Vancouver, Canada (April).
2008 “Teaching ‘Against Marriage,’” presented at the 10th Annual Ethics Across the Curriculum conference, sponsored by Towson University, Baltimore, MD (November 14-16,).
“Why Our Students Stay: Strategies for retention and teaching of women of color in STEM disciplines,” presented at the National Association for Research and Science Teaching (April).
“Why Self-forgiveness Needs Third-Party Forgiveness,” presented at the 1st Global Conference: Forgiveness – Probing the Boundaries, Salzburg, Austria (March).
2007 “A Moral Imperative: Professionalizing Women,” presented at the UK Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP-UK) Conference, University of Nottingham, University Park campus, Nottingham, England (November 22–23).
“Race and the Academy: What we can and should do,” presented at The National Women’s Studies Association 28th Annual Conference, St. Charles, Illinois (June 28-30).
"Why (Some) Women of Color are (Still) in Science,” presented at Gender Balance/ Gender Bias: The 6th International Gender and Education Association Conference, Trinity College Dublin (March 28-30).
“Women’s Altruism and Academic Professions,” presented at Educating Women/Women’s Education In the Post-Secondary Context, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (February 8-10).
2006 “The Impossibility of Responding Ethically to Environmental Atrocity,” presented at the group session of the International Society for Environmental Ethics at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (December 28).
“The politics of pedagogy: Global warming, public policy, and the ethics of identifying controversy,” presented at the 32nd Annual Richard R. Baker Colloquium in Philosophy, on Environmental Philosophy and the Duties of Citizenship, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio (October 13).
2004 “Meaningful Narrative and Genuine Forgiveness,” presented at the special session of The Society for Analytical Feminism at the Central APA (April).
2000 “Humility and Moral Luck,” presented at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis (February).
1998 “Forgiving the wrongdoer for harms to others: A defense of third-party forgiveness,” at the Central Division Meeting of the Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP), Loyola University in Chicago.
Invited presentations
2023 “Complaining as a skill, a duty, and a virtue,” Coastal Carolina University, Jackson Family Center for Ethics and Values (April).
“What Comes Before and After Feminism,” University of Louisville, McConnell Center for Leadership, Scholarship, and Service (March).
2022 “Do You Feel Like I Do,” for the Expanding Empathy 2022 lecture series of the Rock Ethics Institute (online) at The Pennsylvania State University (April 20).
St. Lawrence University - Pedagogy Talk for Tutors w/ Kate Norlock (April 27, online).
2021 “This is Not Normal: Moral Regress as a Negative Normative Transformation,” University of Manitoba, Philosophy Department colloquium (January, online).
2020 “Pandemics end but Struggles are Perpetual,” University of Arizona, speaker series of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom (June, online).
Panelist, “APA Committee Session: Women and Online Philosophy,” arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, with Julinna Oxley (Chair), Regina Rini, Adriel M. Trott, Helen De Cruz, and Saba Fatima, for The American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 117th Annual Meeting, Chicago, February.
2019 Colloquium, “Do I really Consent to Twitter’s Terms of Service,” Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, October 28, 2019.
Keynote, "Online Shaming and the Hijacking of our Minds." Consent and Truth-Telling Conference, sponsored by Centre de Recherche en Éthique, McGill University, Montreal, May 10, 2019.
Editors’ panel, APA Committee Session: On Publishing Ethics in Philosophy, Arranged by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research, The American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 93rd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April 19.
42nd Fritz Marti lecture, “Blaming, Online Shaming, and Grandstanding,” Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, April 12.
2018 Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, at the Canadian Philosophical Association meeting (CPA), June 5.
“Online Shaming and Imaginal Relationships,” joint address to St. Paul’s University and co-sponsored by the Ethics & Public Affairs programs at Carleton University, March 20.
Author-meets-critics panelist, responding to Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity, at the Central Chapter meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), February 21-24.
Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Guelph, February 16.
2017 Moral Emotions workshop, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad del Rosario. Justin D’Arms (OSU), Kathryn Norlock (Trent U), and David Shoemaker (Tulane). Bogota, Colombia, October 19-21.
“If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” as Philosophy Department Colloquium presenter, University of Connecticut (Storrs), September 8.
“If it's Excusable, then Why Do I Feel So Bad?: Rational Self-Forgiveness When No One Blames Us,” Workshop on Blame and Forgiveness, University of Oslo, Aug. 23-24.
“Online Shaming, Part Two” for the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association at the Congress of the Humanities, Joint session (CPA-NASSP), Gender and the Politics of Cyberspace, May 31.
“Perpetual Struggle: Pessimism, Evils, and Hopeless Situations,” for The Nature and Norms of Hope, a conference of the project on Hope & Optimism: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations, Cornell University, April 27-29.
“Forgiveness as a Speech Act,” presented to Florida State University's Conference to Honor David McNaughton, Sponsored by the Werkmeister Bequest, March 24-25.
2016 "Pessimism, Evils, and Hopeless Situations," colloquium presentation to Queen's University Philosophy Department, October 27.
“Forgiveness and Evil,” presented at the conference, Understanding Evil. University of Amsterdam, jointly sponsored with University of Manchester, May.
The Walter Murray Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan. Presentation titles: “Real (and) Imaginal Relationships with the Dead” (public lecture), “Nonideal Ethical Theory” and “Forgiving the Dead” (seminars), March.
“The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress,” presented as part of a memorial session of The Society for Analytical Feminism in honor of Claudia Card, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), January 6.
2015 “Don’t wait for progress,” a presentation to Rice University’s Why So Few workshop series, October 16.
“We Know What Works,” presented at the First Annual Event of the Equity and Climate Committee, McGill University, Montreal, QC, March 27.
2014 Plenary Panel, invited participant, American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), August 1, on the theme, “Women Undergraduates, Justice, and the Future of Philosophy,” with Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University), Jeanine Weekes-Schroer (University of Minnesota-Duluth), and Jean Keller (College of St. Benedicts), at the 20th Biennial International Workshop hosted by the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University.
Three presentations at the Conference of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) at the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Brock University: “Pessimism and Evils,” May 25, “Beyond Accommodation,” May 26, and “Expose yourself: Blogging in the profession,” May 28.
“Giving Up and Knowing Better: Forgiveness After Genocide/ Moins d’espoir, plus de sagesse: Pardon après le genocide,” Colloque 2014 : Génocides : régimes du pardon/Genocides: regimes of forgiveness, May 12.
Keynote address, “Choosing Activism and/or Philosophy,” for the Philosophy Dans La Rue!: Activism and Philosophy in the 21st Century conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, May 10-11.
“Civility, Civil Discourse, and Epistemic Injustice, or, Well-Educated White Ladies Talk About Manners,” co-presented with Alice MacLachlan, invited presentation, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland, April 4.
“The Status of Women in Philosophy,” invited presentation, Queen's University Workshop on Equity in Philosophy, Kingston, ON, March 14.
"My First-World Problems: The Ethics of Women's Advancement in Philosophy." Keynote Speech, The 9th Annual Society for Women’s Advancement in Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 21.
2013 Panelist, “Men Behaving Splendidly: Why and How to Organize a Gender-Balanced Conference,” with Jason Stanley and John Protevi, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women, Baltimore, MD, Dec. 29.
Panelist, workshop mentor, 2nd Biennial Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy, at University of Massachusetts – Amherst, co-directed by Dr. Louise Antony (UMass) and Dr. Ann Cudd (University of Kentucky), June 2-4.
2012 Keynote speaker, “We Know What Works: How to Improve Philosophy for Everyone,” at The Status of Minorities in Philosophy: Graduate Conference and Workshop at Concordia and McGill Universities, Montreal, April 21-22.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “How Kind and Caring Ethicists Talked Me Right Into Pessimism.” The Socratic Society, April 6.
Lafayette College Environment Ethics Conference, “‘That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best’: Non-ideal Pessimism as a Response to Environmental Evils,” March 24.
University of Western Ontario, “Philosophy Curriculum, Moral Perception and Gender Perception.” Philosophy Colloquium, co-sponsored with Women's Studies and Feminist Research, March 2.
2011 Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, “Sara Ruddick and Evils,” Special Session in Memory of Sara Ruddick, October 16.
2010 Elon University, Annual Reynolds Lecture: “Forgiveness as Moral Housekeeping,” April.
“Fragmented Selves and Self-Forgiveness,” Feminist Philosophy Workshop, Goucher College, sponsored by the Women in Philosophy (WIP) club in the Department of Philosophy, March 5-6.
2006 Ball State University: “Taking My Name: Separatism and Feminist Epistemology,” March 16, “Forgiveness for Philosophers,” March 17.
2005 St. Mary’s Ryken High School, Leonardtown, Maryland: “Forgiving for Teachers and Counselors,” October 20.
2004 “Hitler was a Vegetarian, or, Moral Qualms about Deep Ecology,” at Carleton College, January.
“Forgiveness in Relationship: The explanatory power of feminist models,” at University of San Diego, February.
1997 Panel discussion member of UW Zoology Dept. Faculty/Staff Colloquia, Spring. Topic: “What moral treatment do animals deserve?”
Conference Activity: Commentator or Chair
2023 Eastern APA 2023, chair for Author Meets Critics: Susan Brison, Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self—Twenty Years Later, Montreal (January).
2022 Pacific APA 2022: (1) Commentary for author-meets-critics session, in honor of Hope Under Oppression by Katie Stockdale, Vancouver, April 13-16, and (2) chair of APA Committee Session: Who’s Managing Pandemic Burnout?, arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women.
2021 Pacific APA 2021 online: Commentary for “Invited Symposium: The Ethics of Anger.” Speakers: Myisha Cherry (University of California, Riverside) and R. Jay Wallace (University of California, Berkeley). Chair: Joan McGregor (University of Arizona).
Central APA 2021 online: Chair, Invited Symposium: Misanthropy. Speakers: Ian James Kidd (University of Nottingham), Lisa Gerber (University of New Mexico), David E. Cooper (Durham University).
Eastern APA 2021 online: Chair, Memorial session in honor of Maria Lugones. Presenters: Pedro DiPietro (Syracuse University), Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota), Mariana Ortega (The Pennsylvania State University)
2020 American Philosophical Association (APA), Central Division, February: chair, APA Committee Session: Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Publishing, arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Women.
2019 American Philosophical Association (APA), Pacific Division, April 19: commentary on Tori McGeer’s presentation, “Empathy Internalized: On the scaffolding power of self-directed emotion” (panelist with Cheshire Calhoun, Julia Driver and Karen Jones).
2018 Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), June 7: commentary on Joshua Brandt’s presentation, “Forgiveness and Negative Partiality.”
2017 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, Colorado, August 11-14: commentary on Per-Erik Milam’s presentation, “Against Elective Forgiveness.”
2016 Eastern APA, Washington, D.C., January 7: “Preserving Forgiveness,” commentary on Nicolas Cornell’s colloquium paper, “The Possibility of Preemptive Forgiving.”
2014 Central States Philosophical Association, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October: “Mapping Moral Repair,” commentary on Benjamin Almassi’s paper, “Moral Repair and Ecological Restoration,” and sessions-chair.
2013 Central APA, New Orleans, February: "Expecting Bad News," commentary on Judith Andre's paper, "Humility as Affirmative Capacity."
2012 Central APA, Chicago, February: “Mea Culpa,” commentary on Luke Phillips’ symposium paper, “Contempt and the Capacity for Evil”; Chair, group session of Society for Analytical Feminism, and commentary on Ben Almassi’s paper, “Feminist Reclamations of Masculinity.”
2011 Pacific APA, San Diego, April: APA Committee Session: Philosophy Undisciplined: A Broader Vision of Accountability, Arranged by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy; chair and commentator.
2009 Central APA, Chicago, February: “Radical Hope for Living Well in a Warmer World,” commentator; “Buddhism and Care Ethics,” commentator.
2008 Central APA, Chicago, April: “Saving Strawson” commentator.
2006 University of Freiburg, June 7: “Memory and Vulnerability: Forgiveness and Shame,” Session chair and Commentator, International Association of Philosophy and Literature.
TEACHING
Graduate Student Supervision outside of Trent University: Guelph University, Dissertation (Philosophy), committee member for Amber Spence, “The Harms of Rape”
External examiner, dissertation defenses: (1) University of Waterloo, Doctoral program in Philosophy; candidate Vanessa Correia, “Harm Reduction for Corporations,” 2020; (2) Sheffield University, Doctoral program in Philosophy; candidate Cristina Roadevin, “Blame and Forgiveness,” 2016
Graduate Student Supervision or Committee Participation, at Trent University:
Dissertation (Cultural Studies), internal-external examiner for Amy Vosper, “Women in Horror: On the Screen, In the Scene, Behind the Screams” defended May 17, 2021.
Thesis committee member (English/Public Texts, M.A.) for Ross Chiasson, “All I’ve Found is Pain and Terror: Aesthetics and Moral Status in Contemporary Popular Narratives,” defended May 23, 2018.
Thesis committee member (Cultural Studies, M.A.), for Isaac Jiang, “Visions of the Sedentary “I”: Subjectivation in The Little Prince,” defended September 2017.
Thesis Supervisor (Sustainability Studies, M.A.), for Gordon Halsey, “How Christian and Indigenous spirituality motivates health and social services: Exploring a holistic view of social sustainability at a personal level in a Canadian urban context,” defended August 16, 2016.
First-year Supervisor (Sustainability Studies, M.A.), for Emma Langley, “Indigenous Food Insecurity,” 2015-2016.
Dissertation committee member (Cultural Studies), for Joanna Wasiak, “Learning Renaturalization,” defended September 25, 2015.
Thesis Reader (Theory, Culture, and Politics, M.A.), for Adam Rejak, “The Ethics of Being With: Exploring Ethics and Politics in Heidegger’s Being and Time,” defended August 18, 2014.
Thesis Reader (Theory, Culture, and Politics, M.A.), for Daniel Harris, “Background Practices, Affordances, and The Frame Problem: A Heideggerian Critique of The Representationalist Metaphysic,” defended August 12, 2013.
Thesis Supervisor (Sustainability Studies, M.A.), for Emily McCullogh, “The Value of Personal relationships in Relation to the Success of Aid Programs: Experiences of Aid Workers in Post-Earthquake Haiti,” defended August 16, 2012.
Undergraduate Courses developed at Trent University:
First-year: Introduction to Philosophy: Moral and Political
Second-year: Love and Desire, Moral Issues (Applied Ethics), Feminism and Philosophy (introductory)
Third-year: Social and Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Classic Texts in Ethical Theories, Contemporary Ethical Theories, and Philosophy, Gender, & Feminism (as well as Directed Reading Courses)
Fourth-year: Major Texts (Kant’s Ethics), Advanced Topics in Value Theory Seminars (including Responses to Evil, Forgiveness and Mercy, Propaganda, and Misanthropy & Pessimism) (as well as Directed Reading Courses)
Undergraduate Courses developed at St. Mary’s College of Maryland:
First-year: Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, First-Year Seminar: The Ecological Conscience, Honors Program Seminar: Trust in Leadership
Second-year: Environmental Perspectives, Critical Thinking, Introduction to Gender Studies, Introduction to Women’s Studies
Third-year: Environmental Ethics, Research Methods proseminar
Fourth-year: Ethical Theory, Advanced Topics in Value Theory Seminars (including Collective Responsibility, Responses to Evil, Anger and Forgiveness)
SERVICE
Editorial: Co-founder and co-editor, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (since 2015)
Administrative: At Trent University
Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic (2023- )
Acting Chair, Gender and Social Justice, September 2022-2023
Faculty Senate, 2022-2023, 2014-2015
Human Rights Degree Program working group, 2022-2023
SSHRC Research Grants Committee member, 2022
Cyclical Program Review Committee member, 2016 - 2021 (formerly Program Quality Assurance Committee, 2011-2012)
Chair, Department of Philosophy, 2012-2015
Acting Chair, Modern Languages and Literatures, 2014-2015
Faculty Council member, 2013-2015
Trent University Faculty Association, Executive Committee, Member-At-Large, 2014-2015
Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity & Accessibility, 2014-2015
Presidential Advisory Committee on Academic Partnerships with Religious Institutions, 2012-2013
Academic Advising sub-committee of Teaching and Learning Support, 2012-2013
Advancement Committee, 2012
Ontario Trillium Scholarship review committee, 2011
Graduate Studies Committee, 2010-2011
Tenure review committee member, external to other departments
Search committee member, external to other departments
Professional organizations:
APA Committee on the Status of Women, Chair 2019-2022, Associate Chair 2018-2019, committee member 2009-2012 [www.apaonlinecsw.org]
Canadian Philosophical Association, ex officio as program chair 2020-2021
Rowman & Littlefield, Moral Psychology of the Emotions (series), Editorial Board member, 2015-2019.
Society for Analytic Feminism (SAF), an affiliated group of the APA, President, 2015-2018, Executive committee member, 2010-2012.
APA Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Harassment, chair, 2013-2015
Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) Secretary 2019-2021, President 2012-13, Vice-Pres. 2011-12
Women In Philosophy Task Force, 2009-2015
External program reviewer for undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Philosophy in the USA and Canada
External referee for candidates for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor and candidates for Full Professor, USA and Canada
Public relations or media:
2022 Interviews on U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade with Global News’s Morning Show on CHEX-Peterborough, with PtboToday/FREQ90.5 with Jordan Mercier, and Peterborough Examiner
Interview for Ontario Morning for CBC on Nov.2, on the subject of women in politics: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-112-ontario-morning-from-cbc-radio/clip/15875874-ontario-morning-tuesday-november-2-2021-
Podcast interview to Penn State University’s podcast, called Lecture n. 7, for their Expanding Empathy series: https://vimeo.com/696292492/b50d092a7f
Interview on forgiveness for FIRST for Women magazine, for their feature called "Stress SOS," on the ethical risks and emotional benefits of forgiveness.
2021 “Rise Up, Fellow Complainers, Let’s Be Vulnerable Together,” solicited for Psyche, a digital magazine from Aeon, first published Feb. 5, URL: https://psyche.co/ideas/rise-up-fellow-complainers-lets-be-vulnerable-together
“Blaming Uncivil Characters (If They Exist),” for Syndicate, as part of a symposium of responses to Michelle Ciurria’s book, An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility. URL: https://syndicate.network/symposia/philosophy/an-intersectional-feminist-theory-of-moral-responsibility/
2020 Podcast interview, on “Perpetual Struggle,” for Freedom Center Today, with Freedom Center Managing Director, James Harrigan, recording June 25, 2020
Podcast interview, on “Can’t Complain,” for Journal Entries, with Wes Buckwalter, air date June 4, 2020. URL: https://journalentries.fireside.fm/norlock
Interview for Alanna Mitchell, Broadview columnist, on the subject of climate change: https://broadview.org/green-shaming-climate-crisis/
2019 Interview, CBC Sunday Edition, “How complaining can actually bring us closer together,” with Michael Enright, air date October 27, 2019.
Interview, The UnMute Podcast, with Myisha Cherry, Episode 42, “Kathryn Norlock on Complaining & Shaming,” February 11, 2019. URL: https://unmutetalk.podbean.com/e/episode-042-kathryn-norlock-on-complaining-shaming/
Invited blog post, “Reflective practice exercise,” for The Philosophers’ Cocoon, edited by Helen de Cruz. URL: https://bit.ly/2x4koH4
2018 “Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss,” for Radical Philosophy, radio program on 3CR in Melbourne Australia. [3cr.org.au/radicalphilosophy] June 27.
“Free Speech,” solicited for Trent Magazine, Summer.
Interview, with Mark Norris Lance and Michael Doan: Roundtable on Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, for Blog of the APA, July 3. URL: https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/07/03/against-purity-living-ethically-in-compromised-times/
Blog Post: “Against Lynching as a Case ‘Against Empathy’” for Blog of the APA, June 27. URL: https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/06/27/against-lynching-as-a-case-against-empathy/
Comment for “Why Philly sexual assault victims look to Facebook for 'street justice,’” by Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1.
“We Can Act: Lessons learned in Philosophy from the APA ad hoc committee on sexual harassment in the profession,” solicited for CSWEP News (Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession), a subcommittee of the American Economic Association; special issue on sexual harassment edited by Jennifer Shinall.
2017 Interview with Avery Kolers for SoundCloud’s Ethics Forward!, “Online Shaming,” Episode 1, July 13. https://soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward-radio/ethics-forward-online-shaming
“Public Forgiveness; Unforgiving Public,” invited post for The Spoke, the blog of the Albright Institute at Wellesley College. URL: http://www.wellesley.edu/albright/about/blog/3441-public-forgiveness-unforgiving-public
“Assignment - Find a Political Philosop-her,” solicited for The Deviant Philosopher, a teaching resource website for philosophers interested in deviating from the traditional Anglo-American philosophical canon. URL: http://thedeviantphilosopher.org/Activities/Assignment-FindAPoliticalPhilosop-her
2016 Invited blog post on refereeing, for Blog of the APA. Post title: “Referees: When Is an Objection Grounds for Rejection?” URL: http://blog.apaonline.org/2016/01/28/referees-when-is-an-objectiongrounds-for-rejection/
2015 Blog Post: “A dreadful night for Paris, a good night to help refugees,” at Feminist Philosophers. URL: https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/a-dreadful-night-for-paris-agood-night-to-help-refugees/
Invited blog post, “Survivors and Resisters,” at Daily Nous, for the ‘Philosophers on Star Wars’ cluster. URL:dailynous.com/2015/12/21/philosophers-on-star-wars-the-force-awakens-spoilers/
2014 Invited blog post: “This Time I Mean It: New Year’s Resolutions, Self-Forgiveness, and Fitness,” April 25, solicited for Fit is a Feminist Issue. URL: http://fitisafeministissue.com/2014/04/25/thistimei-mean-it-new-years-resolutions-self-forgiveness-and-fitness-guest-post/
2013 Invited blog post: “Beginner’s Love (Guest Post),” August 17, solicited for Fit is a Feminist Issue. URL: http://fitisafeministissue.com/2013/08/17/beginners-love-guest-post/
Conference Organization
2022 Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), reviewer and co-grant applicant
2020-2021, Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) annual meeting at Congress of the Humanities, program chair
2019-2020, Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) annual meeting at Congress of the Humanities, associate chair and area-chair for submissions in feminist philosophy, ethics
2019 CSWIP, program chair for annual conference, October, at University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.
2019-2022, between three and six sessions annually, for the three division meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA), as chair of the Committee on the Status of Women
2018-2015, between three and six sessions annually for the three division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, as President of Society for Analytic Feminism (SAF), an affiliated group of the APA
2018 North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP), program chair for annual conference, July at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
2017 North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP), program committee member for annual conference, July 2017 at Loyola University in Chicago.
2016 Society for Analytic Feminism (SAF), program committee member ex officio, for September conference, Analytical Feminism: Past, Present, & Future, at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
2015 C-SWIP, peer-review and program coordinator for annual conference October, at Campion College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.
2013 Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (C-SWIP), annual conference host and site organizer, October, at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.
2012 Society for Analytic Feminism (SAF), co-program coordinator, for October conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
2011 Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (C-SWIP), peer-review and program coordinator, for October conference in Victoria, B.C.
2006 CardFest 2006: Morality, Luck and Identity, at University of Wisconsin-Madison, in celebration of Claudia Card's 65th birthday, April 14-15. Original presentations included philosophers Victoria Davion, Marilyn Friedman, Virginia Held, Hilde Lindemann, David Concepcion, Elizabeth Spelman, Lisa Tessman, Lynne Tirrell, and Margaret Urban Walker.
1997 Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP), Midwest Division Meeting, UW-Madison, March. Presented (as a member of a panel) a discussion paper, “The Disvalue of Forgiveness.”
Publishers for which I referee proposals: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, Routledge Publishing, Palgrave-MacMillan, Princeton University Press, Rowman & Littlefield
Refereeing for conferences: Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), American Philosophical Association (APA), Society for Analytical Feminism (SAF), Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), 4th Annual Philosophers' Cocoon Philosophy Conference (PCPC)