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Selected Publications

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Books

Releasing Philosophy, Thinking Art: A Bodily Hermeneutic of Four Poems by Sylvia Plath, Davies Group Publishers, 2009.

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Book Chapters and Articles (selected)

"A Phenomenological Meditation Inside Plath’s “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” Venturing Into the Uncharted World of Aesthetics, edited by John Murungi and Linda Ardito, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2023. 

 

“Seeing Brancusi’s First Cry, A First Time, Again,” Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5840/jh20222014  

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"Hope in Julian of Norwich," Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers, forthcoming 2021.

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“Inside Emotions, Passions, and Depression in Disney’s Inside Out,” Disney and Philosophy, edited by Richard Davis, The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, Blackwell Publishers, December 2019.

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“More than a Case Study:  Retrieving Depth from Sylvia Plath’s Poetry,” Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, Volume 10, May 2019.  

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“Call the Philosopher: Wonder, Care, and Birth as Philosophical Frameworks,” Philosophy Now (February/March 2019, Issue 130).

 

"Building and Dwelling with Heidegger and Lego Toys,” Lego and Philosophy, edited by Roy T. Cook and Sondra Bacharach, The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, Blackwell Publishers, 2017.

 

“Listening to Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism and Trees: The Giving Tree and Environmental Philosophy,” Chapter 15 in Philosophy and Children’s Literature, edited by Peter Costello,

Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield), 2012, Paperback version released in 2013.

 

“Dancing Like a Man: A Phenomenological Study of Gender, Class and Sexuality,” in Privilege and Prejudice, edited by Karen Weekes, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

 

“Sylvia Plath and White Ignorance: Race and Gender in “The Arrival of the Bee Box,”” Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Summer/Fall  2007, Vol. 10.1.

 

“South Park on Feminist Ethics, Obscenity, and Gender Roles, South Park and Philosophy, edited by Robert Arp, The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, Blackwell Publishers, 2007.

 

“Using the F-word in Philosophy Classes: Feminism in Practice,” Philosophy Now, Issue 39, December 2002/January 2003.

 

"Philosophizing with Sylvia Plath: An Embodied Hermeneutic of Color in Ariel,” Philosophy Today, Volume 46, Issue 2, February 2002.

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