Summer Renault-Steele Visiting Instructor of Writing

Payne 309
540-458-5868
renault-steeles@wlu.edu

Education

B.A. Philosophy, Trent University

M.A. Social and Political Thought, York University

M.A. Philosophy, Villanova University

Research

Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy (special emphasis in Feminist Thought) Aesthetics and Visual Culture

Teaching

WRIT 100—Power and the Cultural Imagination

ENGL 293—Spectatorship and Sexuality

FILM TBA—Film: Medium of a Disintegrating World

Selected Publications

Book Reviews

“Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism.”APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 10:1 (Fall 2013): 25-27.

“Critical Leverage in the Current Conjuncture: A Dialogue with Gabriel Rockhill Concerning Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique.” PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 7:1 (Spring/Summer 2012): 347-364.

Translations

“No God, No Caesar, No Tribune! Cornelius Castoriadis Interviewed by Daniel Mermet.” Translated with Gabriel Rockhill and the Villanova French Translation Workshop. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 15:1 (Fall 2010): 1-12.