Gail Weiss
Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences

Areas of Specialization: phenomenology, existentialism, feminist theory, critical race theory, philosophy of literature

Selected Publications

Monographs and Edited Volumes:

• Refiguring the Ordinary (Indiana University Press, 2008)
• Intertwinings: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty (SUNY Press, 2008)
• Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006)
• Thinking the Limits of the Body (SUNY Press, 2003)
• Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality (Routledge, 1999)
• Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture (Routledge, 1999)

Articles and Book Chapters:

• "Mothers/Intellectuals: Alterities of a 'Dual' Identity" The Other: Feminist Reflections in Ethics. eds. Anne Reichold, Helen Fielding, Gabrielle Hiltmann, and Dorothea Olkowski. (Palgrave Macmillan Press 2007, 138-165).
• "Challenging Choices: An Ethic of Oppression" The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays. Ed. Margaret A. Simons. (Indiana University Press 2006), 241-261.
• "Death and the Other: Rethinking Authenticity" The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics. Eds. Mary C. Rawlinson and Shannon Lundeen. Philosophy and Medicine: 88. (Springer Press 2006), 103-116.
• "'Politics is a Living Thing': The Intellectual's Dilemma in Beauvoir's The Mandarins" The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Beauvoir's The Mandarins. Eds. Sally Scholz and Shannon Mussett. (SUNY Press, 2005), 119-134.
• "Urban Flesh" Philosophy Today SPEP Volume 30: "Directions and Directives: A Snapshot of Current Continental Philosophy," 49:5 (2005), 116-127.

Presentations, Activities, Work in Progress

• Keynote Speaker for the Merleau-Ponty Circle of Japan conference on "Body or Corporeality from New Perspectives," Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan, November 2008.
• Invited Participant in a Feminist Phenomenology Conference to launch the inaugural Society for Interdisciplinary Feminist Phenomenology (SIFP) organized by Professors Bonnie Mann and Beata Stawarska to be held at the University of Oregon, May 2008.
• Invited Participant for an International Feminist Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Conference on Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age, organized by Dr. Sylvia Stoller to be held in Vienna, Austria, February 2008.
• Invited Participant in a Workshop on Sexual Difference and Embodiment organized by Professor Cressida Hayes, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta and Professors Alia Al-Saji and Marguerite Deslauriers, Department of Philosophy at McGill University to be held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, October 2007.
• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Interpretive Phenomenology, George Mason University, June 26th-29th 2007.
• "Dead Bodies/Live Commodities: The Alchemy of Gunther von Hagens' Body/Worlds Exhibit" presented at the Philosophical Collaborations on Embodiment Symposium, Philosophy Department, University of Oregon, May 2007.

Education

Ph.D. Yale University