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.