Andrea Dionne Warmack

(pronounced: ahn-dree-uh)

PhD Candidate

(Email)
Fourth Year in PhD

Education

  • Emory University, MA, 2020
  • Hunter College, BA, 2017 – Honors Mentor: Linda Martín Alcoff

AOS

  • Black Feminist and Womanist Thought
  • Phenomenology (esp. Critical Phenomenology)

AOC

  • Continental Philosophy
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Social and Political Philosophy

Published Work
Articles

  • “Smiling Lessons: Toward an Account of AfroSkepticism” – Southwest Philosophy Review (forthcoming)
  • “We Flesh: Musser, Spillers and Beyond the Phenomenological Body” – Puncta (forthcoming)
Chapters
  • “Fear Loathing and Las Whiteness: Whiteness as Fearfulness” – Feminists Talk Whiteness, Taylor and Francis (Spring 2022) (forthcoming)
Reviews
  • “Toward Respect: A Review of Brittney Cooper’s Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Woman”, Journal of World Philosophies, Volume 3 No. 2, 2018

Teaching Experience

  • PHIL 116: Bioethics – Emory University (Fall 2021)
  • PHIL 136: Love and Friendship – Emory University (Fall 2021)
  • SPHI 220: Intro to Philosophy – Spelman College (Spring 2021 – online)
  • SPHI 220: Intro to Philosophy – Spelman College (Fall 2020 – online)
  • PHIL 116: Bioethics – Emory University (Summer 2020 – online)
  • PHIL 136: Love and Friendship – Emory University (Fall 2019)
  • PHIL 100: Basic Problems in Philosophy – Co-Teaching – Emory University (Spring 2019)
  • PHIL 200: Ancient and Medieval – Teaching Assistant – Emory University (Fall 2018)

Talks

2021
  • “We Flesh: Musser, Spillers and Beyond the Phenomenological Body” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting – Rochester, NY (October 2021)
  • “Fear, Loathing, and Las Whiteness: Whiteness as Fearfulness” Collegium of Black Women Philosophers 2021 Conference – Virtual (May 2021)
  • Guest Lecturer: “Flamboyantly Living the Fuck You: Towards Shamelessness as a Virtue” – Feminist Philosophy – Goucher College – Virtual (March 2021)
  • Response to Issac Wiegman “Divesting from Whiteness: The Tortured Logic of Exclusion” – American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting – Virtual (February 2021)
2018-2020
  • “Smiling Lessons: Toward an Account of AfroSkepticism” Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Thought – Penn State University, State College, PA – Virtual (November 2020)
  • “Research as Self-Care” Collegium of Black Women Philosophers 2020 Conference – Virtual (April 2020)
  • Response to Amber Musser’s Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance – American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting – Philadelphia, PA (January 2020)
  • Response to Marquis Bey’s Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism – American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting – Philadelphia, PA (January 2020)
  • “Laddie Sings the Blues: Merleau-Ponty, Perception, and Blues” – The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST): The Future of Feminist Ethics: Intersectionality, Epistemology, and Grace – Clearwater, FL (October 2019)
  • “Flamboyantly Living the Fuck You: Towards Shamelessness as a Virtue” – American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting – New York City, NY (January 2019)
  • “Home: Toward a Phenomenological Account of Homing as a Practice of Self-Love” – American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting – New York City, NY (January 2019)
  • “Home: Toward a Phenomenological Account of Homing as a Practice of Self-Love” – California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race – Loyola University, New Orleans, LA (October 2018)
  • “Translated to Death: On Making Oneself Intelligible” – Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress 2018 – Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada (June 2018)
2016-2017
  • “Canon Fodder: Exploring the Challenges of Decolonization and Canon Reform” – The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST): Decolonizing and Indigenizing Feminist Philosophy – Clearwater, FL (October 2017)
  • “Canon Fodder: Exploring the Challenges of Decolonization and Canon Reform” – Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association Conference 2017 – Saint Mary’s University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada (October 2017)
  • “One is Not Born a Woman” – Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique – Université Paris Descartes, Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales – Sorbonne, Paris (July 2016)
2014-2015
  • “Kinky Little Thing” – Hypatia Conference: Exploring Collaborative Contestations and Diversifying Philosophy – Villanova University (May 2015)
  • “PowerQueer” – MMUF Regional Conference – Barnard College, NYC (April 2015)
  • “Kinky Little Thing” – Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Regional Conference – City College, NYC (April 2014)

Membership

  • Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy LGBTQ Advocacy Committee (Elected: September 2021)
  • APA Committee on LGBTQ People in the Profession (Elected: March 2021)
  • American Philosophical Association (August 2018-present)
  • Phi Sigma Tau (Inducted: Spring, 2016)
  • Thomas Hunter Honors Program (Hunter College, 2014-2017)
  • Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Summer Research Program (Hunter College, August 2013)
  • Golden Key International Honor Society (Inducted: Spring 2013)

Awards / Fellowships

  • SSRC – Mellon Mays 2020 Graduate Studies Enhancement grant August 2021
  • Alternate – WWDoctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies   February 2021
  • Finalist – WWDoctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies      January 2021
  • SSRC – Mellon Mays 2020 Graduate Studies Enhancement grant July 2020
  • SSRC – Mellon Mays 2019 Graduate Studies Enhancement grant June 2019
  • SSRC – Mellon Mays 2018 Graduate Studies Enhancement grant June 2018
  • George W. Woodruff Fellowship ($5K)                         Fall, 2017 – ongoing, annual
  • Carl & Florence Selden Foundation Graduate Scholarship ($3.5K) Spring, 2017
  • Sue Weinberg Philosophical Studies Award (Hunter College) Spring, 2016
  • JMS Scholarship (Hunter College) Fall, 2015
  • Mellon-May Undergraduate Fellow 2013-2017

Service

  • Organizer & Moderator – Panel for Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love – “Coming as Our Better Selves: Compersion, Compassion, and Consent” at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting (February 2021)
  • Graduate Student Representative – The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (January 2021-December 2022)
  • Organizer & Moderator – Panel for Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love – “Trans* Erotics” at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting (January 2020)
  • Secretary – Black Studies Collective (Emory University, Fall 2019-Summer 2020)
  • Curator – Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love (Fall 2018-present)
  • Graduate Mentor — Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (Emory University, Fall 2017-Spring 2020)
  • Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique (July 2016)