Kathleen J. Wininger - University of Southern Maine

Kathleen J. Wininger
curriculum vitae

P. O. Box 24 Department of Philosophy
South Freeport, ME 04078-0024 USA University of Southern Maine
E-Mail: [email protected] Portland, ME 04104-9300 USA
Telephone: 207.780.4928 Work FAX: 207.780.4226

Ph. D. Temple University, Department of Philosophy (August, 1988)
Dissertation Director: Joseph Margolis,
Dissertation Committee: Alexander Nehamas, John Fisher, John Atwell

B.A. Southern Connecticut State University
Majors: Philosophy and Art History
additional undergraduate work in Philosophy at Yale University
and in Art History in Austria, Bavaria, and Italy

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
AOS: Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Film
AOC: Social Justice and Ethics, Feminism, African Philosophy

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker and Kathleen J. Wininger. 4th edition, Amherst, N.Y.:
Prometheus Books, 2009, 516 pages. ISBN-10: 1591026091, ISBN-13: 978-1591026099

Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker, Kathleen J. Wininger, and Frederick A. Elliston. 3rd edition,
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1998. 671 pages. [67 books cite this book]
ISBN-10: 157392184X, ISBN-13: 978-1573921848

Nietzsche’s Reclamation of Philosophy, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 1997. In the “Central-European
Value Studies” series under the editorship of Professor H. G. Callaway, University of
Mainz, Germany. ISBN-10: 9042003839, ISBN-13: 978-9042003835

ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS:

“Stomp & Holler: Because We’ve Had Enough! The Transformation Of Slutwalks,” Transformations: The
Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy published by New Jersey City University, 2012.
105-112. Invited Media Review.

"Comments on Alan Soble's Pornography, Sex, and Feminism," Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the
Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love 1993-2003, Edited by Adrianne Leigh McEvoy,
Amsterdam: Rodopi Amsterdam/New York, NY 2011. XVI, 552 pp. (Value Inquiry Book Series
232). ISBN: 978-90-420-3368-9.

“The ‘Pinnacle of his Spirit’: Nietzsche and the Erotic” Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 2011
http://www.philosophyofsexandlove.org/EventsPapers/WinningerNietzsche.pdf

“Disabled People,” “Iris Marion Young,” and “Postcolonialism.” "1000 words," "1000 words," "1500
words," respectively. Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Deen Chatterjee, ed. Springer, 1st Edition,
2011, ISBN: 978-1-4020-9161-22011

“On Spinsters,” and “To Cut or Not to Cut” and Introduction in Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker and
Kathleen J. Wininger. 4th edition, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2009. pp.103-116, pp. 412-
416.

EDITORIAL WORK: advisor to the Editor of Journal of Gender Studies - a Nigerian multi-disciplinary
annual publication, edited by Chioma Opara of Port Hartcourt, 2001-2008.

"Nietzsche." In Alan Soble, ed., Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, 2 vols. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005, (3,000 words, pp. 711-718).

"Incorporating Gender Issues from African Philosophy in the Law" included in the Workbook for the
SEARLW Women’s Law Program. July, 2004. pp. 9-12. Selected papers.

Forward to Chinyere Okafor’s pamphlet “Season’s of Maine: One Year of an African Woman” 2002, 1 page.

“Following African Identity in Bessie Head: An Exile’s Philosophical Journey” Proceedings of the 13th
Annual International Conference on Women in Higher Education, edited by Diane M. Calhoun-French,
Dean of Academic Affairs. 2002. pp. 13-24. Selected papers.

“Ida B. Wells," 500 word entry. Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century,
1800-1914. Edited by John Powell and Derek Blakeley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

“Friedrich Nietzsche," 850 word entry. Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth
Century, 1800-1914. Edited by John Powell and Derek Blakeley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
2001.

"Fictions And Spectacles: Neo Colonial Images Of African Women" in the Special Edition On Bessie Head’s
Work in Marang: Language Literature And Society: A Southern African Journal, Edited By Leloba
Molema, pp 153-161, 2000. Refereed

“Nietzsche’s Women and Women’s Nietzsche” in Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by
Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall in the Re-Reading the Canon series: University Park, Pennsylvania:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. pp. 236-251. Invited paper.

“Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals” in the Classics Revisited feature of The Journal of Value Inquiry, 30:
453-470 (September 1996) . refereed

“Steven Spielberg’s Version of the Color Purple” Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual
Arts Newsletter. Vol. I, no. 2, September 1994. Selected papers.

“Reclaiming Nietzsche for Philosophy” in Religious Humanism, vol. XXVIII, no. 3., Summer, 1994, pp 127-
138. Refereed

“The Context of Meanings behind Rape Trauma," by Cathy Winkler with Renata McMullen and Kate
Wininger. In Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations. ed. Nicole Sault. New Brunswick, N.J.:
Rutgers University Press, 1994.

"Rape Trauma: Contexts of Meaning," by Cathy Winkler with Kate Wininger in Embodiment of Knowledge, ed.
T. Csordas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

"African Philosophy: Two Views" in Philosophy, Humanity, and Ecology: Philosophy of Nature and
Environmental Ethics. vol. 1. edited by Prof. H. Odera Oruka. Nairobi, Kenya: ACT Press, 1994. pp
198-207.

"The Consequences of Consequentialism," The Journal of Value Inquiry, 20: 327-332. 1986. Refereed

BOOK/REVIEWS/POPULAR PRESS:

Book Review (commissioned) Introducing Philosophy through Film: Key Texts, Discussion, and Film
Selections ed. by Richard Fumerton and Diane Jeske for Teaching Philosophy, ed. by David
Boersema Volume 34, Number 3, September 2011.

Book Review of A Daughter of Isis: the Autobiography of Nawal el Saadawi for African Studies Quarterly.
vol. 4 no. 2, Fall, 2000 http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v4/v4i2a11.htm

“The Art of Reconciling Motherhood and Philosophy” in The Dissident: Maine’s Journal of Politics and
Culture. November, 1999. http://www.maineprogressive.org/111999/reconcil.htm

“The Value of Art” in The Dissident: Maine’s Journal of Politics and Culture. July, 1999
http://www.maineprogressive.org/071999/wininger.htm

Book Review of Disputed Subjects: Essays on Psychoanalysis, Politics and Philosophy by Jane Flax for
Canadian Philosophical Reviews. Vol. XIV, no. 6., December, 1994.

Book Review The Disputed Nietzsche: My Sister and I, by Friedrich Nietzsche. This is a review article
written at the invitation of Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought. No. 91. Spring, 1992, pp.
185-189.

Book Review of The Construction of Homosexuality by David Greenberg in Contemporary Crises: Law, Crime
and Social Policy, vol. 14, 1990.

ACADEMIC HONORS:

• “Kathleen MacPherson Outstanding Feminist Faculty Award,” in recognition of outstanding
scholarship, effective teaching, and exemplary service, 2008

• University of Southern Maine, “Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Service to the Humanities
Division,” Award for Service, 2005

• Center for Teaching Grant: Awarded for student development, 1998

• Maine Humanities Council Grant, Awarded for conference on Somalia, Spring 1993

• Women's Studies Research and Travel Award 1991, 1992

• Special Language Scholarship (DAAD) Goethe Institut: Boppard, Germany

• Connecticut State Scholarship to attend Yale University

• Summer Study Scholarship Award to study Art History in Austria

• Dean's List: Junior and Senior year Southern Connecticut State University

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH, PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Chair, Panel in "The Spatial Politics of Borders & Movement." Conference on Identity · Memory ·
Testimony. Maine Women Writers Collection, Maine Women’s Studies Consortium, New England
Women’s Studies Association, University of New England, March 30-31, 2012

“A Postnational Humanism? Reflections on the Philosophy of Bessie Head” in a session on Gender in a
Postnational Context at 44th Annual Convention of the North East Modern Language
Association, Rochester, NY. March 15-18 2012.

“African Sustainability: Agriculture as Metaphor and Survival in the writings of Bessie Head and Wangari
Maathai,” in Session African Memoirs and Autobiographies, Staying Alive: African Women’s
Memoirs and Exile at the 37th Annual African Literature Association Conference in Athens, OH
(USA) at Ohio University April 13-17, 2011.

Chair and Commentator, Concerned Philosophers for Peace, American Philosophical Association,
Boston, MA Dec. 2010.

Participated, with Professor Otrude Moyo, in a special symposium on Southern African author Bessie Head
in the Colloquium: Bessie Head And The Twice-Told Tale organized by Linda Susan Beard.
English House, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. October 2, 2010

Research on resistance to German Colonialism, and the role of photography in reading resistance.
Windhoek, Namibia State Archives and Kohlmanskopf, Namibia at April, 2011.

While in Namibia Dr. Wininger spoke about her research to students at the Deutsche Höhere Privatschule
in Windhoek and encouraging them to come to the US for university, law and graduate school
study.

“Teaching Gender in African Philosophy, Film, and Literature” at the African Literature Association
Conference 2010 in Tuscon, AZ (USA) at the University of Arizona, 14 March 2010.

“Thought With A Sense Of Place: Teaching Gender in African Philosophy, Film, and Literature,” in panel
session: Teaching Literature, Culture, Film, and Philosophy. A panel which I organized for the
35th annual conference of the African Literature Association to be held at the University of
Vermont in Burlington, Vermont USA, 15-19 April 2009.

The ‘Pinnacle of his Spirit’: Nietzsche and the Erotic” Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love 9:00-
11:00 a.m., American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Philadelphia, PA December
27 - 30, 2008 http://www.philosophyofsexandlove.org/EventsPapers/WinningerNietzsche.pdf

“African Humanism, Citizenship, and a Sense of Belonging in the Writings of Bessie Head” paper
presented in the panel “Cultural Violence against Women in the context of national politics and
economic globalization” at The African Studies Association, 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting,
21st Century Africa: Evolving Conceptions of Human Rights, at the Sheraton New York Hotel and
Towers in New York, NY on October 18-21, 2007.

Chair, conference “Forging the Local and the Global” 9-12 July 2006 Stellenbosch University, South
Africa July 2006

Research on Gender in German Colonialism. Windhoek, Namibia State Archives and at Swakopmund
Samuel Cohen Library June- July 2006

“White Feminists approach Africa: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” African Literature Association,
32nd Annual Meeting & Conference, Accra-GHANA - May 17-21, 2006

“SWIP ORGANIZATION Solidarity, Cooperation, and Truth: What Divides Us and What Unites Us”
Invited paper. The topic of the session was: “Philosophy at Global Crossroads: How Can
philosophers Make a Difference?” the Conference on Philosophical Societies(CoPS) at the
American Philosophical Association, December 28th 2005 in NYC.

“The ‘Pinnacle of his Spirit’: Nietzsche and the Erotic,” 62nd Annual Meeting of the Maine Philosophical
Institute, at the University of Southern Maine, 7th Floor of the Glickman Library, May 7, 2005

“Following African Identity an Exile’s Philosophical Journey” in the panel “Africa in Stasis: The
Calcification of African Literature due to Selective Publication. “ April 6-10, 2005 at the African
Literature Association, Millennium Harvest Hotel, Boulder, Colorado. The conference theme is
"Beyond the Printed Word: African Literatures, African Cultures."

Chair, Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Topic: Iraq and the War on Terror: an Update APA Eastern
Division Meeting, in Boston, December 27-30, 2004

“Dreams of Wholeness and the Limitations of the Self in Bessie Head, ” Gender and the Power of Expression
Gendered approaches to the study of identity, language, and memory are particularly compelling in this
age of globalization. November 11-14, 2004 African Studies Association “The Power of Expression:
Identity, Language and Memory in Africa and the Diaspora” at the Marriott Hotel in New Orleans, LA.

"Incorporating Gender Issues from African Philosophy in the Law" University of Zimbabwe’s Searcl:
Southern and Eastern African Regional Center for Women's Law Conference, Victoria Falls and
Harare, ZIMBABWE. June 27- July 21st 2004

“Gestures of Belonging: Reflections on Exile, Place, and Hope,” African Literature Association, 30th
Anniversary Conference, 14-18 April 2004, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"The Slippery Slopes of Pornography" at the "Author Meets Critics" session of the American Philosophical
Association. The paper was a commentary on the book Pornography, Sex, and Feminism by Alan Soble
Dec 26-30 2002, American Philosophical Association Philadelphia

“Approaching African Identity in Bessie Head: ‘A Sense of Wovenness, of Wholeness.’” given at the 3rd
WAAD Conference, of the Association of African Women Scholars. October, 2001 Antananarivo,
Madagascar.

“Issues of Identity in Bessie Head” Feminist Utopias Conference New College - Institute for Women's Studies
and Gender Studies University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. November 9-12th, 2001.

"Thinking African Identity: “Brokenness & the Construction of Self in Bessie Head," Women of African
Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora at Southern Connecticut State University October 6-7, 2000

“Following African Identity in Bessie Head: An Exile’s Philosophical Journey” presented at the 13th Annual
International Conference on Women in Higher Education by National Association for Women in
Higher Education, New Orleans January 8-11, 2000

Chair, session on “Passing” American Philosophical Association session Boston, MA December 1999

“Dangerous Images: Neo Colonial Images in Tourist Art.” 2nd WAAD Conference, Women from African and
the African Diaspora: Health and Human Rights. Association of African Women Scholars October 22-
27, 1998 Indianapolis, Indiana

“Neo-Colonial Aesthetics: Images of Women” at the Demanding Equal Station Conference: the
Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, Portland, Maine. Oct. 15-
18th, 1998

Chair, 8th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers Lessons from the
Gynaeceum: Women Philosophizing: Past, Present and Future, Boston University, Boston August 6-10,
1998

"Fictions and Spectacles: Neo Colonial Images of African Women." at the Language, Literature, Society:
Paradigms & Pedagogies in Honor of Bessie Head in Gaborone, Botswana. June 16-20, 1998

Invited keynote speaker during Women’s History Month “Women Appropriated, Women Appropriating a Neo
Colonial Encounter” Trinity College in Washington, DC, March 30th, 1998

“Feminist Pedagogy” paper delivered at 12th Annual Maine Women’s Studies Conference at Bates College,
November 15th, 1997

“White Women Teaching about African and African American Writers” paper at the Inclusive and
Interdisciplinary National Conference, Portland, Maine. September, 1997

“Neo-Colonial Aesthetics: Images of Women” at the invitation of the Women’s Studies Department and
International Studies Program at Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. April 8th, 1997

"Women Appropriating and Women Appropriated: A Neo-Colonial Encounter" at the Society for Women in
Philosophy Conference at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. April 5th, 1997.

"Women Appropriating and Women Appropriated: A Neo-Colonial Encounter” presented at The Pan-African
Symposium: Problematics of an African Philosophy: Twenty Years after (1976-1996) Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. December. 1996

“Nietzsche’s Views of Women” invited paper presented to the University of Nairobi faculty and graduate
students Nairobi, Kenya Fall, 1996.

“We Came, We saw, We Bought: Tourism and the Material Appropriation of Culture” at the XIV World
Conference of World Futures Studies Federation. Kenyan National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya. July
25th-29th, 1995.

“Art, Æsthetics and the Sensual,” invited lecture at the Maine College of Art in their conference What is Art:
a Symposium on Art and Culture, Portland, Maine. Feb. 2, 1995

"Learning to Love: Nietzsche, Art, and Culture" at the 51st Meeting of the Maine Philosophical Institute.
Bowdoin College, Maine April 23rd, 1994

“Spielberg’s Version of The Color Purple” presented at the Popular Culture Association Meetings, Chicago,
IL April 6-9, 1994

“Nietzsche’s Women and Women’s Nietzsche” invited paper presented at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY
March, 1994

"Learning to Love: Nietzsche, Art, and Culture" presented to the International Society for Value Inquiry at
the World Philosophy Congress Moscow, Russia. August, 1993.

"Philosophical Commentary on Rape” paper in a session on ‘Discourses of Rape’. The Society for Women in
Philosophy Conference on Florida, March 20th, 1993.

"Nietzsche and Pathology" invited paper given at Earlham College. Richmond, IN February 17th, 1993.

"African Foreign Study Programs: Philosophy in a Multicultural Context." Presented at the American
Philosophical Association, Washington, DC. December 28th, 1992.

"Nietzsche and the Figure of Women." Moderator for the panel at meeting of the Society for the Study of
Phenomenology and Existentialism. October 8th, 1992.

"Nietzsche, Wedekind and Pabst: Modernism in Film" Seminar Faculty member for “Changing Visions:
Early Twentieth-Century Modernism on American Art and Culture”. Lectures on the Conception of
Modernity. April 27 and 29th, 1992.

"African Views of Western Discourse and Representation” presented at the World Congress of Philosophy in
Nairobi, Kenya July, 1991. I also organized a session of presentations on Women and African
Philosophy.

"Women and Creativity." Participant on an international panel organized by Mona Abousema of Egypt held in
at the World Congress of Philosophy, Nairobi, Kenya. July, 1991

"In a Really Different Voice: Stylistic Variation and Issues of Philosophical Legitimacy," Presented at the
Eastern Division. of the Society For Women in Philosophy. Portland, Maine, April, 1991.

“Liberating Images/ Oppressed Lives: A Humanities Forum Panel.” I was a participant with director Sheila
McLauglin on her film “She Must be Seeing Things.” Portland Museum of Art, Maine. May, 1990.

"The Spectacle of the 'Other'," presented at Bowdoin College, April, 1990.

Chair, "The Categories of Gender," at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association,
Society for Women in Philosophy in Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1989.

"African Philosophy: The View from Inside, the View from Outside," invited paper presented at Randolph-
Macon College, Fall, 1988.

"Love and Art: Nietzsche's View of Value Change" Presented at Holy Cross College at
the Society for Women in Philosophy Conference, New York, Fall 1988.

Panel participant honoring Elizabeth Lane Beardsley's work in Moral Philosophy, American Philosophical
Association Meeting in New York City. December, 1985

"Women and Philosophy," invited paper Fall 1985, Union College. Schenectady, NY.

"Women's Lives: Theory and Practice," invited paper at Villanova University
‘Talk of the Times’ lecture series, Fall 1984.

“Racism and Classism," moderator, After the Second Sex: New Directions, University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, PA. April 1984.

"Nietzsche and Genealogy: Something for the Industrious," Eastern Division of the Society for Women in
Philosophy, Mount Saint Mary College, NY. Fall 1983.

“Jeremy Bentham and the Consequences of Consequentialism," presented at the Society for Women in
Philosophy Conference at Drew University, Spring, 1982.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS:

International Society of African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) at The Ohio State University in
Columbus, Ohio on April 17-20, 2011.

The Fifth independent conference for the Hannah Arendt Circle, hosted by the Department of Philosophy
and the Don Shula Program in Philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland Ohio, April 8-10,

2011.

Participant in “Colloquium: Bessie Head And The Twice-Told Tale” organized by Linda Susan Beard.
English House, Bryn Mawr College, October, 2010

“Girl’s Culture & Girl’s Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood,” 18th Annual Women’s
Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, October 17-19,
2008

Buddhist study and meditation with Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh, Estes Park, Colorado August 21-
26, 2007.

Popular Culture Association Meeting, Boston, MA April 5th-8th, 2007

“Feminist Locations” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference. Savannah, GA, March 25-
27, 2004

African Studies Association meeting Boston, MA 2003

“Women and the Environment,” Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Southern Connecticut State
University, New Haven, CT, October 4th and 5th 2002

Association of American Colleges and Universities, “Boundaries and Borderlands III: The Search for
Recognition and Community in America," 11 day Summer Institute, Brown University. Training to be
a resource for USM faculty in Diversity and Multicultural Issues, July 13-23, 2000

National Women’s Studies Association, Simmons College, Boston, June, 2000

Maine Philosophical Association, April 29, 2000 Bowdoin College

“Global Justice/Women’s Rights” Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT October 1st, 2nd
1999

“Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity,” Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, August
11-16, 1998

“Understanding Dynamic of Contemporary Africa: Beyond the Stereotypes & Images" October 17-19, 1997,
Host Institution: Africa Studies Center, Office for International Students and Scholars, and Office of
Study Abroad, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

“What is Philosophy?” Conference at Yale University April, 1998. This conference brought six eminent
scholars together in the discipline in order to discuss the definition and future of the discipline.

Midwest Faculty Seminar Participant (University of Chicago):
"Self and its Representations: Constituting the Self: Prose, Painting & Poetry" May, 1988
"Discourse of Gender," March, 1987.
"Cognitive Strategies and Writing," May, 1986.
"Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations," 1985.

USM & UMS Talks, Workshops and Conferences:

• May 26th 2011 USM Co-curricular 2009 Campus Safety Project Day long Retreat 9:30 to 3:30

• February 1st, 2011 Organizer, Chair and panelist "Disability, Identity, Community: Feminist

Perspectives" in Rm LB 241. Panelists were: Kate Wininger (Philosophy), Brenda Schertz
(Linguistics) , James Melanson (WGS major)

• Friday, Dec 3rd, 2010 1-2:30 PM in 423-424 Glickman Library, Portland The topic will be "e-
Books and e-Textbooks." The panel of presenters will include Casandra Fitzherbert, Head of
Library Acquisition Services, Jeff Beaudry and Lynne Miller who are now involved in writing an
e-textbook, and a USM faculty member currently using eBooks.

• May 26-28th 2010, “Race, Gender and Class in the Intentional Mining Community Kolmanskop,
German South West Africa” at UMS Consortium Women’s Studies Conference, Oakland, ME.

• December 4th, 2009. 5pm. Talk “on Spinsters” and Book Signing party for my book Philosophy
and Sex, 4th edition.

• April 23rd , 2009 Nietzsche Night panel for Philosophy Symposium 6:45pm and faculty
Professors Louden, Wininger, and Read in room 302 Luther Bonney.

• October 29th, 2008 Lecture “Subverting Gender Representations” (panel) Professors Donna
Cassidy (Art History) and Kathleen J. Wininger (Philosophy) will discuss the context of the
emergence of the feminist art movement in the 1970s and how it challenged the assumptions of art
practice and the discipline of art history. They will explore how feminist artists brought new
subjects and concerns to the visual arts in works like Womanhouse (1971) and Judy Chicago’s
Dinner Party (1979) and used their art to make visible the history of women’s art in the West.
They will also consider the more activist art of the Guerrilla Girls, by screening the short video
Guerrillas in Our Midst, and discuss the place of women and other excluded people in the art
world of the early 21st century. The talks will also explore contemporary art responses to Gender
and Art History.

• September 17, 2008 WAGS Programming organizer. Cut (film) Ellen Gurney, a clinical social
worker with a local private practice, facilitated the discussion.

• 2006 Wednesday, April 5 Panel discussion and reception, "Women, Art, and War," with artists
Patricia Winer, Natasha Mayers, and Associate Professor of Philosophy Kate Wininger in
conjunction with Winer's exhibition "American Faces, Arab Names" (see above), 7 p.m., 7th
Floor, Glickman Family Library, Portland, free and open to the public, 780-4289.

• Participant in Summer Seminar Alumnus, "Advanced Sentence Stylistics." 7th floor of the
Glickman Library on Friday, November 3rd 2006 from 1:00 to 3:00 .

• January 24, 2006, Blackboard Workshop, Center for Teaching, 518 Glickman Library

• October 21-22, 2005 Teaching for Sustainability, Casco Bay Project . Two day workshop about
integrating sustainable development into course design and other scholarly activities.

• May 19th, 2005 “Nietzsche: Sex Feast or Erotic Morality” USM Women’s Studies Conference,
Newagen Inn. Boothbay Harbor.

• Panelist at the morning session of The Provost’s Seminar Writing Conference sponsored by
• THE CENTER FOR TEACHING and THE PROVOST’S SUMMER WRITING SEMINAR.

o Afternoon Workshops attended: Ann Dean’s “What is good writing” & Nancy Gish’s
“Ancient and Modern Uses of Rhetoric,” March 18, 2005

• Faculty workshop sponsored by Women’s Studies and CAS with Nawal El Saadawi and Sherif
Hetata and Libra lecture series Feb., 2003 - Dec 1, 2003

• The Libra Committee Sponsored talks:
o Globalization, Fundamentalism, & Gender

o Thursday, March 20th evening 7-8:30 Luther Bonney Auditorium
o The Libra Committee in conjunction with the Honors Program bring you: "World Social

Forum and Peace." the evening of Friday, April 11th at 6pm in Campus Center ABC
o "Creativity, Politics, and Gender." Thursday, April 24th, evening 7-8:30, Luther Bonney

Auditorium
o Nawal el Saadawi and Sherif Hetata, Oct 22nd 2003
o Nawal el Saadawi and Sherif Hetata on The New African Diaspora Friday, November 7,

2003, 7:00-8:30PM, Function Room
o Nawal el Saadawi and Sherif Hetata December, 2004

• Panel discussion on "Scandalous Eyes" exhibit, featuring USM faculty members Frank Carner, Donna
Cassidy, Maureen Elgersman Lee, J. Mark Scearce, and Kathleen Wininger, moderated by Art
Exhibitions Director Carolyn Eyler, 5:30-7 p.m. February 4, 2003

• Faculty workshop On Internationalizing the Curriculum sponsored by Women’s Studies with Amy
Tsanga, January, March, April 2002

• Chinyere Okafor’s FACULTY SEMINAR ON GENDER, RACE, & PEDAGOGY
o 1st Seminar: DEFINING THE PROBLEM (S) OF GENDER, RACE, & PEDAGOGY
Can we rethink concepts and create new understanding?
o Can we begin a process of reevaluation and adjustment to diversity?
o Date: Friday, 9/27/02 Place: 509 Luther Bonney, USM Portland Campus.
o 2nd Seminar: STRATEGIES FOR THE CURRICULUM & CLASSROOM
o How can we create and manage a gender and race-friendly classroom?
o Course selection and design with possibilities
o Date: Friday, 10/18/02 Place: 524 Luther Bonney, USM Portland Campus.
o 3rd Seminar: MULTIPLE CENTERS AND PERSPECTIVES
o Let us hear from, not about, multiple centers.
o Let us listen to others tell their stories as centered agents.
o Date: Friday, 11/15/02 Place: 524 Luther Bonney, USM Portland Campus.
o 4th Seminar: LOCAL AND/OR GLOBAL DIVERSITY?
o Which way - global centers, global others, exotic others?
o Which way forward?
Date: Friday, 12/13/02 Place: 524 Luther Bonney, USM Portland Campus.

• Panel participant “The Nature of Beauty” sponsored by Philosophy Symposium March 26th, 2002
• “Africa/Portland,” consultant/dramaturge for performance. February 15, 2002
• Paper on Bessie Head in African Women session “Africana Women in Maine” Conference organized

by Maureen Elgersman Lee. 20 September 2002
• Maine Women’s Studies Consortium Conference Oct. 25-26: Chair: Kate Wininger: “Women on the

Left” 2002
• June 17-21, 2002 USM Writing Assessment Workshop, week long sessions
• NEH Honors Seminar Four evening lectures with external scholars and six day long workshops to

develop curriculum: Oct., Nov., 2000 Feb., March, April, May 2001. Four Professors will spend four
additional days in May creating two new courses for the Honors program. My involvement includes
developing a course in African Thought which has a Service Learning component -working with local
African refugee communities. I taught this Honors Seminar in the Spring of 2002 and 2003.
• Panel participant “This is the 21st Century: Freedom, Privilege, & Civil Rights in the Wake of
Tragedy,” Sept. 26th 2001
• Provost’s University -Wide Committee on Writing: 2nd Annual Summer Seminar of the Provost’s
Writing Committee, June 2000.
• Maine Women’s Studies Consortium Retreat, May, 2000, Hershey, Maine
• Presentation and Round table participant Globalization & Ethics: Contact, Exchange, & Human
Values, 28 April 2000.
• Provost’s University -Wide Committee on Writing: 1st Annual Summer Seminar of the Provost’s
Writing Committee: Follow up Workshop, December 3rd, 1999,

• Panel member “Approaching Plato’s Republic” sponsored by Philosophy Department Student
Organization, 29 November 1999

• Workshop on Publishing and Writing for Publication with Marcia Yudkin, Nov. 29th, 1999
• Provost’s University -Wide Committee on Writing: 1st Annual Summer Seminar of the Provost’s

Writing Committee-2 weeks, June 1999
• Gender Paper presented at USM Women’s Studies Retreat Phippsburg, Maine, May 13-14, 1999
• Meet the Professor luncheon for the Philosophy Symposium, 23 April 1999.
• Women’s High Tea talk on Bessie Head, 3 February 1999
• Participant in a Center for Teaching Workshop: Barbara Wolvood all day workshop “Using Writing

for Student Learning,” Sheraton Tara Hotel, Dec 5th, 1998.
• Panelist doing Commentary on Zimbabwean guest speaker sponsored by Honor’s Department, 23

September, 1998
• Provost’s Writing Initiative Workshop Stone House USM, May 20th, 1998.
• Maine Women’s Studies Consortium, Retreat, May 21-22 1998 China, Maine
• “‘Woman’, ‘Mother’, ‘Gender’ in Some African Societies," Panel Presentation at USM Women’s

Studies Retreat, May 1998.
• “Philosophy and the Art of Motherhood," during Women’s History Month, March 25th, 1998.
• “Nietzsche’s views on Logic.," guest of the Honors Program at the University of Maine, Farmington

where she spoke on April 14th, 1997.
• 1997-1998 Participant and organizer for LIBRA lectures and workshops on Literacies:
• October 30th lecture , workshop all day 31st
• December 12th workshop at the Roma Restaurant sponsored by Libra Com.
• February 5th lecture, workshop all day 6th (I introduced President Pattenaude)
• April 23 lecture -workshop all day 24th (I introduced Dean Worchel)

o -These were daylong workshops on teaching writing
• May 18th Libra end of series workshop Black Point Inn, Scarborough
• Maine Women’s Studies Consortium Retreat, May, 1997, Hershey, Maine
• Women’s Studies Retreat , May 1997
• Value of a Liberal Arts Education Now and in the 21st Century. Panel speaker on the topic “Offering

Resources and Scholarship to the Community,” Campus Center, Fall 1996
• Women’s Studies Retreat, May 1996
• “Women Appropriating, Women Appropriated: A Neo-Colonial Encounter,” philosophy dept.

sponsored talk at USM, Spring, 1996.
• "Women Appropriating and Women Appropriated: A Neo-Colonial Encounter" lecture sponsored by

the Philosophy Symposium, PS #1, February 12th,1996
• Round Table Luncheon Discussion with Kenneth Lewallen on Strategies for Raising Sensitive and/or

Controversial Teaching in the Classroom, November 10th, 1995.
• Center for Teaching Lunch with colleagues to discuss teaching writing, linking classes, teaching

controversial topics. This was organized with David Wagner, Oct. 27th, 1995.
• Chair for 4 papers at the Maine Consortium Women’s Studies at the University of Southern Maine,

Gorham, Fall, 1995
• “Nietzsche and Feminism” for ECCE Nietzsche Conference USM, March, 1995.
• Malcolm X’ Introduction and Critique of Spike Lee’s Film at USM, November 22nd, 1993
• Conference on Africa: Focus Somalia, George Caffentzis and I, with the help of students, put together

the day conference, April 15th, 1993.
• "Silence=Death" paper for Conference on Western Civilization, USM. December 15th, 1992.
• "Nietzsche and 19th Century Social Movements" for the Philosophy Symposium October 26th, 1992.
• "Truth and Lie in My Sister and I" in the Texts that Matter series in the USM Honors Program.

January 22, 1992
• “Xanthippe Speaks” Video and presentation about the Society for Women in Philosophy with Julien

Murphy. 1991
• "Feminism, African Philosophy, and Kenya Now" sponsored by Women's Studies Department,

October 9th, 1991.
• Panelist for Women’s Studies discussion on consensus decision making, 1990
• Women’s Studies Lecture on Dorothy Sayers, 1990

UMS & USM Committees:
UMS System
Maine Women’s Studies Consortium 1992-present- this group consists of Bowdoin, Colby, Bates and

Maine state Universities. It meets each semester at a different campus and puts on a yearly
conference.
Maine Women’s Studies Consortium, Retreat May 21-22 1999 China, Maine- Spring 2004, 2 days.

Provost/President
Pluralism Task Force
Pluralism Curriculum Committee (2 years)
Project 100 Participant: 2000, 1997/1998, 1995/1996

CAS/CAHS
Liberal Studies in the Humanities,Committee which created the LSH program 2010-present
Faculty Senate, CAS Humanities Senator, 2007-2009
Faculty Senate, Humanities Awards Committee Commitee 2007-2008, 2007-2008
Faculty Senate , Library and Media Committee 2007-2009,
Faculty Mentor for Sama Alshiabi Art Department faculty member, Angela Gulielmetti,

German,Department of Classical & Foreign Languages
CAS Libra Committee 2002-Dec 2003(Chair Fall, 2003), Nawal El Saadawi and Sherif Hetata
CAS Libra Committee 1997-1998 “Literacies”
Faculty Professional Development Committee 1991-1992, 1993, 1994-1995
University of Chicago, Pluralism Conference, November 1992 ( FPDC representative)

Philosophy
Chair of Post Tenure Reviews for Schwanauer 2006 and Murphy 2008 and Caffentzis 2011
Philosophy Dept Curriculum Committee, Creation of Phil 405, Creation of 19th C. Philosophy

Philosophy Department Chair

Chair September 2008-June 2009
Chair January – June 2006
Chair. September 2003-November 2003
Chair January 2002- June 2003
Chair September 1997-November 13, 1998
Chair: Summer 1993, January 1995

Philosophy Department Hiring Committee 2002-2003, etc.
Philosophy Department Speakers Committee 1990-1993
Philosophy Department Strategic Planning Committee
Philosophy Department Teaching Symposium
Philosophy Department Faculty Advisor to Student Organization Fall 1993, Spring 1995

Women's Studies Council 1989-Present
Women's Studies Council Programming member 2008-2009
Chair 2007-2008 Program events for the year including the programming for 2 semesters of a 1 credit

course administered by Women’s Studies and serving the Gen Ed EYE course as its 4th hour.
Women's Studies Council Curriculum Committee and GEN ED 2006-present
Women's Studies Sub-committee on Research Materials 2007
Women's Studies Council,
Women's Studies Council, Awards Committee, 2011, 2009
Women’s Studies Faculty Development Conference Planning Committee, 2005
Women’s Studies Library Committee 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2006-2007
Women’s Studies Personnel Committee 1999-2000
Women's Studies State Programming 1991-1998
Women’s Studies Reading Group: Organizer of readings & Participant 1992-1994

Women's Studies Advisory Committee, 1992-1993

Radio/Press

Interview with Keita Witten on Radio. Mama Africa show WMPG November 29th 2009.

Interview with Anne Hobby of the FREE PRESS vol. 37, Issue 21, regarding sustainability issues. 2005

“Sound Ideas” broadcasts on Bessie Head and Maria Lugones, WMPG Fall, 2000

Interview on teaching and research Andee Warren’s Women’s Show, Feb. 14, 2000

"Discussion of the Responsibilities of the Artist to Society." One hour radio broadcast on WMPG. Jan 15th
1992

"Philosophy Conference in Nairobi & the State of African Philosophy Today" in Philosophy Dept. with Dr.
Joseph Grange and Dr. George Caffentzis. Radio broadcast on WMPG. Fall 1991

Television: Public Access Cable
Mothering interview for Mother’s day May, 1998

Book Marks interview with Mark Lapping on my book Nietzsche’s Reclamation of Philosophy, May, 1998

USM Close Ups Interview by Dr. Nancy Gish given with Larry Bliss on the issue of diversity in
educational curricula. Fall, 1991

"Toward Defining Pluralism," Broadcast of Pluralism talk for CUPA Fall 1991 Broadcast in Spring 1992

Gorham Art Gallery interview with Juris Ubans on the show concerning Back Yard Art. Fall 1991

Talks and Service to Maine Community:

2008 – present Member. Freeport Maine Creative Arts, PO Box 187 Freeport, ME 04032 The mission of
Freeport Creative Arts is to nurture and support the sustainability of the arts while offering the
community and visitors diverse creative opportunities in Freeport, Pownal and Durham
http://www.freeportusa.com/fca.html [email protected]

Board member of Museum of African Culture formerly, Museum of African Tribal Art, Portland, Maine
2001-2005, Education Committee 2006-2008

2006, 1 February. Freeport Middle School Two separate one hour presentations on East Africa and
Southern Africa for students and teachers sending supplies to Uganda to help AIDS orphanages and
schools.

2004 “Colonialism and the Voice of Modern Africa: a Case from Kenya.” Primary Source’s “Stories Told
in Many Ways: African Art, Literature and Music” program for Maine K-12 teachers. Ryan
Bradeen, director. Tuesday, December 14th (4:00 - 7:30) at Bangor High School in Bangor, Maine.

2003 Maine Humanities Council's “Teachers As Scholars” in Southern Maine: Spring 2003 February 10,
Monday “Representations of Race in American Popular Culture” An interdisciplinary seminar
linked to the exhibit Scandalous Eyes: African America in Illustrated Sheet Music Covers, 1895-
1925 (at the USM Area Gallery until April 1) and USM's African-American Archives. Five scholars
will examine different aspects of this paradox: at a time when African-American musicians were
inventing a uniquely American art form, popular culture caricatured them as childish or animal-like.
The discussion will connect with broader questions of how pop culture reinforces racial stereotypes.

Frank Carner (English), Donna Cassidy (art and American & New England Studies), Maureen
Elgersman Lee (history), J. Mark Scearce (music), Kathleen Wininger (philosophy)

2001-2005 K-12 Africa presentations for Freeport School System. Morse Street School 2001, 2002
Mast Landing School, 2003, 2004, Freeport Middle School 2005 .

1994-1998 Organizer of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Annual Women’s Film and Video Festival in Portland,
Maine 1994-1998. Sponsored by Portland Museum of Art, and USM Women’s Studies.

1997 “Scarlet Letter," Mad Horse Theatre. Grant Writer and Guest Scholar for the production of this play.
Spring, 1997

1997 K-12 Africa Presentation for the Hill School Portland Spring

1991-present. Peace and Social Justice Committee of the Portland Society of Friends.

1992 "An Afternoon in Africa" Slides, lecture, and presentation of artifacts. Portland Museum of Art.
March 8th, 1992.

1990-1992 Portland Museum of Art member of the Film Committee. 1990-1992.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT: Fall 1989-Present Assoc. Professor of Philosophy
University of Southern Maine Fall 1996 Guest Lecturer,
University of Nairobi, Kenya Undergraduate, Graduate Programs
Asst. Professor of Philosophy
Earlham College Fall 1985-1989 Visiting Lecturer
Union College Winter/Spring 1985 Asst. Professor of Philosophy
Delaware State College Fall 1984 TA Philosophy / Women's Studies
Temple University Spr 1978-1983

COURSES TAUGHT:
Introduction to Philosophy:

World Philosophy, Feminist Perspectives, Morality and the Law, Philosophy of Sexuality, Moral
Philosophy, Theories of Human Nature
Introduction to Women’s Studies
EYE: Gender, Representation, Resistance: Entry Year Experience
Politics of Difference: Gender, ‘Race’, Class
Morality and Social Justice
Philosophy of Film
Aesthetics/Philosophy of Art
Topics in Art History: African Visual Culture,
African Philosophy
Contemporary African Art History
Women and Development in Africa
Women Philosophers in Africa and the Diaspora
Honors Seminar: African Diaspora, Social Justice and Exile
Existentialism
Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Philosophy of Feminism
Contemporary European Philosophy
Nineteenth Century Philosophy
Twentieth Century Epistemology: Continental and Analytic
Humanities: Literature, History, Philosophy
Social Science & Human Values: Psychology, Anthropology, Philosophy
Meta-philosophy (Senior Seminars in philosophy)
Senior Seminars on Nietzsche’s Philosophy and Post-Colonial Thought
Senior Seminar in Women’s Studies

LANGUAGE: Reading ability: German

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
African Literature Association 2004-Present

African Studies Association 1993-1994, 1996-Present

American Philosophical Association 1986-Present

American and International Society for Value Inquiry. 1990-2003

Association of African Women Scholars 1997- Present

Radical Philosophical Association 1986-Present

North American Nietzsche Society 1984-87, 1992-2003

SAPINA (Study of African Philosophy) 1989-1990

Society for Women In Philosophy 1982-Present (Executive Committee 1984-86 )

Society for the Study of Women Philosophers 1993-Present

Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts 1993-Present

OTHER:

Text Reviewer for: University of Calgary Press, Macmillan, Prentice Hall, Harcourt College, and Blackwell
Publishers.

Referee for Hypatia, Contemporary Women's Writing, and The Journal of the History of Ideas, Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Modern Language Studies Journal (MLS), published
by NEMLA.

Referee report for Gail Presbey, editor of the book Philosophical Perspectives on Terror and the War on
Terror. August, 2004

Outside evaluator for philosophy faculty promotion to full Professor case at Haifa University, Israel
Outside evaluator for philosophy faculty promotion to full Professor case at University of Detroit Mercy
Outside evaluator for philosophy faculty promotion to full Professor case at University of Maine,

Farmington

Book Reviewer for African Studies Quarterly, Hypatia, Radical Philosophical Review, APA Newsletter on
Feminism and Philosophy .

Leader of an off campus program from Earlham College to Kenya, Africa, Fall 1987
Co-Founder of the Delaware Valley Society for Women in Philosophy

REFERENCES: Union College
Prof. Robert Baker Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Robert Ginsberg Temple University
Prof. Joseph Margolis Princeton University
Prof. Alexander Nehamas University of Detroit Mercy
Prof. Gail Presbey Earlham College
Prof. Peter Suber Randolph Macon College
Prof. Donna Turney