Amy E. Wendling

Home: 1111 No. 36th Street, Omaha, NE, 68131 USA

(402) 218-7164

Office: Creighton University Department of Philosophy

2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178  USA

phone (402) 280-3591  fax (402) 280-3359

E-mail: wendling@creighton.edu  Web: http://puffin.creighton.edu/AmyWendling

 

May 1, 2009

 

Education

Ph.D.   The Pennsylvania State University, May 2006 

Major Field: Philosophy; Minor Field: Social Thought

 

B.A.     Southwestern University, 1998  

Major Field: Philosophy; Minor Fields: French, Women’s Studies

 

Honors, Grants and Awards

Creighton Summer Faculty Research Fellowship for 2008.  Creighton University

Graduate School.  Used to fund research abroad in London and Berlin, May and

June 2008.

 

Finalist, David Rjazanov Prize.  International research prize for 2006 honors a pre-tenure researcher on Marx.  Prize was announced at a ceremony in Berlin, Germany on March 8, 2007.   I placed second out of five international finalists.

 

College of the Liberal Arts Teaching Release Grant, The Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006.

 

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship to Amsterdam and Berlin, 2003-2004.  Archival research on Marx’s unpublished texts at the International Institute of Social History (www.iisg.nl).  Secondary literatures from the Staatsbibliothek Berlin.

 

J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship to the Netherlands, 2003-2004.

 

Susan Welch- Arthur Nagle Family Graduate Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University 1999-2000, 2000-2001.

 

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1998-1999.

 

Phi Beta Kappa, May 8, 1998.

 

Brown Scholarship, Full Undergraduate Tuition, Room and Board, and Fees, Southwestern University, 1994-1998.

 

Books

Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation, Palgrave Macmillan London, April 28, 2009.

 

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

 

“Karl Marx,” in the Encylcopedia of the Life Course and Human Development. 

            Fall 2008.  (Invited.)

 

“On Alienation and Machine Production: Capitalist Embodiment in Karl Marx.” 

     Beiträge zur Marx-Engels-Forschung.   Neue Folge 2007, 253-267.  (Peer Refereed.)

 

“Rough, Foul-Mouthed Boys: Women’s Monstrous Laboring Bodies.”   Radical Philosophy

Today.  5, Fall 2007, 49-68.  (Peer Refereed.)

 

Sovereign Consumption as a Species of Communist Theory: Reconceptualizing

            Energy”.  In Reading Bataille Now.  Shannon Winnubst, Ed.  Introduction by

            Alphonso Lingis.  Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.  January 2007, 35-53.

            (Peer Refereed.) 

 

“The Dignity of Labor?: A Marxist Challenge to Traditional Marxism.” 

International Studies in Philosophy.  38:2, October 2006, 181-196.  (Peer  Refereed.)

 

“Comparing two editions of Marx-Engels Collected Works”.  Socialism and

Democracy.  19:1, March 2005, 181-189. (Invited.)

 

Are All Revolutions Bourgeois?: Revolutionary Temporality in Karl Marx’s

Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.”  Strategies: Journal of Theory,

Culture, and Politics.  16:1, May 2003, 39-49.  (Peer Refereed.)

 

 “Partial Liberations: The Machine, Gender, and High-Tech Culture.”  

International Studies in Philosophy (formerly Studi Internazionali di

Filosofia).   34: 2, Spring 2002, 169-185.  (Peer Refereed.)

 

Reviews

 

Review of Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor Between Economy and Culture, by

Bruno Gullì.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005.  214 pp.  $24.95 paper. 

ISBN: 1-59213-113-1.  Contemporary Sociology.  35:6, Fall 2006, 626-627.

 


“The Legacies of Simone de Beauvoir.  Konferenz des College of the Liberal Arts der

Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA, 19.-21. 11. 1999).”  Translated

from English to German by Anne Koch-Rein, Passau.  Journal Phänomenologie. Volume13: Spring 2000, pgs. 44-47.  In original English as “The Legacies of Simone de Beauvoir.  Conference of the College of the Liberal  Arts of the Pennsylvania State University (State College,  PA, November 19-21, 1999).”  International Journal for Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and Cultural Hermeneutics: Special Issue on Simone de Beauvoir.  Volume 1: Issue 1, Spring 2000.

 

Presentations and Lectures

 

Upcoming:  December 27-30, 2009, Author Meets Readers Session on Karl Marx on  

Technology and Alienation, Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Marriott Marquis, New York, New York.

 

Upcoming:  “Labor is Said in Many Ways.”  December 27-30, 2009, American

Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Main Program, Marriott Marquis, New

York, New York.

 

Upcoming:  August 13-20, 2009, Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas Pan-American

Ph.D. Seminar for the Poststructuralist Studies in Culture, Business and Marketing Collaborative, Cultural Embeddedness of Marketing and Business Research

 

“Presumptive Claims about the Real: A Response to Robert Guay.” American

Philosophical Association Eastern Division, Philadelphia Downtown Marriott,

Colloquium on Themes in Continental Philosophy, December 30, 2008.

 

“Working Class Gender and the Family in the 19th Century.”  Invited Speaker,

            Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society,

            Creighton University, November 6, 2008.

 

“Does Labor Matter?  Does Democracy Matter?”  Invited Speaker,

            Department of Philosophy, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee,

            October 27, 2008.

 

Panel Discussant, Women and War Series, Kenefick Humanities Chair Series on the

            Humane Life, Creighton University, September 9, 2008.

 

“The Strife between Technology and Capital: Machines in the Communist Future.”

            Invited Speaker, (British) Marx and Philosophy Society, University of London,

            May 24, 2008.

 

“Who’s Afraid of Karl Marx?: New Directions in Marx Scholarship.”  Invited Speaker,

Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies.  Northwestern

University, Evanston, Illinois, October 4, 2007.

 

 “Capitalist Embodiment: Machines and the Transformation of Work.”  Society for

            the Philosophical Study of Marxism.  Meeting in conjunction with the

            American Philosophical Association, Central Division.  Palmer House

            Hilton.  Chicago, Illinois, April 20-22, 2007.

 

“A Cookbook for the Working Classes: Organicism in Early Haraway.”  Feminist

            Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science (FEMMSS)

            Conference, “Knowledge that Matters.”  Department of Women and

            Gender Studies.  Arizona State University, February 8-10, 2007. 

 

“Rough, Foul-Mouthed Boys: Women’s Monstrous Laboring Bodies.”  Radical Philosophy

Association Annual Meeting, November 3-6, 2006.  Creighton University, Omaha,

Nebraska.

“The Speed of Production: Charles Babbage’s influence on Karl Marx.”  Society for the

History of Technology Annual Meeting, October 13-16, 2006.  Imperial

            Palace Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

“Marx and the Scientific Materialists.”  Penn State Public Events in Philosophy,

            The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, December 2,

            2005.

 

“Where Repression is Wanting: Marcuse and Marx on Class Cruelty and the

Capitalist Use of Technology.”  Conference presentation for “Reading

Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization After Fifty Years.”  St. Joseph’s

University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 3-6, 2005. 

 

“The Dignity of Labor?: A Marxist Challenge to Traditional Marxism.”  Society for Social

and Political Philosophy, meeting in conjunction with the Society for

Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Salt Lake City, Utah,

October 20-22, 2005. 

 

“Wondrous Yet Monstrous Machines: Karl Marx’s Diagnosis of Technophobia and

Technophilia.”  Grave ReMarx: The Accumulating Dead. University of

Florida’s Marxist Reading Group.  University of Florida, Gainesville, March

24-26, 2005.

 

“Karl Marx and the Significance of Machines in Late Philosophical Modernity.” 

Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research

Fellows Workshop.  Union Station Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, September

30- October 5, 2004.

 

“Sovereign Consumption as a Species of Communist Theory: A Reading of

Volume III of Georges Bataille’s Accursed Share.”   Society for

Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Loyola

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, October 10-12, 2002.

                                                                                                         

“Are all Revolutions Bourgeois?: Revolutionary Temporality in Karl Marx’s

Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.”   Murphy Institute of Political

Economy, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 13-14, 2002. 

 

“Partial Liberations: The Machine, Gender, and High-Tech Culture.”  Philosophy,

Interpretation, and Culture.  State University of New York Binghamton, April

27-28, 2001.  

 

 

 Membership in Professional Organizations

American Philosophical Association (APA)

National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)

Society for Social and Political Philosophy (SSPP)

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)

 

Teaching Appointments

 

Assistant Professor, Creighton University

 

Historical and Critical Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2006, Fall 2007)

Philosophical Foundations for Ethical Understanding (Spring 2007)

Legal Philosophy (Spring 2007)

Honors Sources and Methods Course: Classics of Social Theory (Fall 2007)

Philosophy of Feminism (Spring 2008)

Nineteenth Century Philosophy (Fall 2009)

 

Instructor, Pennsylvania State University

 

Philosophy of Nature (Summer 1999)

Philosophy of Race (Summer 2001)

Philosophy and Feminism (Fall 2001 and Spring 2002)

Upper-level Medical and Health Ethics (Summer 2004)

Introduction to Bioethics (Fall 2004 and Spring 2005)

Philosophy of Love and Sex (Summer 2005)

 

Instructor, Southwestern University (Full Time at a 3/2 course load)

 

Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2002 and Spring 2003)

Biomedical Ethics (Fall 2002)

 

Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania State University:

 

Intro. to Ethics, Alphonso Lingis, led discussion sections on Fridays (Fall 1999)

Philosophy of Race and Diversity, Emily Grosholz (Spring 2000)

 

 

Professional Service

 

Society for Social and Political Philosophy, Executive Board 2007-2010.   This is an elected position.  Duties involve blind-reviewing papers for conference presentations of the society in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Eastern Division and the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting, chairing sessions at these meetings, and conducting organizational work for the society, including writing the calls for papers.  Re-elected to a second term in 2008.

 

Preparing Future Faculty Mentor to Charles Gilkey of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Philosophy Department.  The Preparing Future Faculty Program (PFF) is a national initiative designed to provide advanced doctoral students who plan to pursue an academic career an opportunity to learn about the teaching, research, and service expectations for faculty at academic institutions with varying missions and diverse student bodies.

 

Continental Philosophy Review: An International Philosophy Review

Served as a referee, Spring 2006.

 

Communication Theory

Served as a referee, Fall 2003.

 

Other Service

 

Special appointment to Academic Vice President Patrick Borchers’

University committee on Administration and Finance, Creighton University, Sept.

2008-May 2009.

 

Creighton University Faculty Senate, May 2007-May 2011.  Re-elected to a regular

            Three-year term in 2008.  Elected to the Executive Board as Secretary for 2009-

2010. 

 

Creighton University U.S. Fulbright Program Advisor (FPA), May 2007-date.

            Reappointed in 2008 to replace departing FPA.

 

Creighton University Women and Gender Studies Advisory Board Member, June 27,

            2008-date.

 

Creighton University Ratio Studiorum Program Preceptor, Fall 2007, Fall 2009.

 

Creighton University Undergraduate Philosophy Club Guest Lecturer on Philosophy

and Feminism, November 9, 2006.

 

Assisted in the development of a web-based resource for teachers seeking to integrate the themes of philosophy, race, and social justice into their classes.  See http://ets.cac.psu.edu/projects/prsj/overview.html for further information.

 

Penn State Undergraduate Philosophy Club Steering Committee, 2004-2005, 2005-2006.

 

Penn State Undergraduate Philosophy Club Guest Lecturer on The Communist Manifesto, April 12, 2005.

 


Language Proficiencies

French: fluency reading and some speaking

 

German:  fluency reading and listening (have conducted interviews);

knowledge of 19th century philosophical, scientific, and political idiom;

Gothic script and historical manuscript skills

 

Dutch: some speaking and reading

 

References

 

Mitchell Aboulafia

Faculty and Chair of the Liberal Arts Department

The Julliard School

60 Lincoln Center Plaza

New York, NY 10023-6588

(212) 799-5000

mitchell.aboulafia@gmail.com

 

Daniel W. Conway

Professor of Philosophy and Department Head

Texas A&M University

314 Bolton Hall

College Station, TX  77843-4237 USA

(979) 845-5605

conway@philosophy.tamu.edu

 

Emily R. Grosholz

Professor of Philosophy

Penn State University

240 Sparks Building

University Park, PA 16802 USA

(814) 865-1676

erg2@psu.edu

 

Alphonso Lingis

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

(now retired from) Penn State University

11719 Greenspring Avenue

Lutherville, MD 21093

(410) 308-3755

allingis@hotmail.com

 


Carl Mitcham

Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies

Colorado School of Mines

Golden, Colorado 80401

(303) 273-3648
cmitcham@mines.edu

 

Emmanuel Moustakakis, M.D.

Clinical Fellow, Division of Cardiology

North Shore University Hospital

New York University School of Medicine

Manhasset, New York

(718) 470-7330

mouste01@med.nyu.edu

 

Fred E. Schrader

Professor of History and Civilization, Germanic Studies, and European Studies

Collaborative Editor of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) project

École normale supérieur Université de Paris VIII

45 rue d’Ulm

75005 Paris

France

schrader1@free.fr, Schrader@canoe.ens.fr

 

Shannon Sullivan

Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies and Chair of Philosophy

Penn State University

240 Sparks Building

University Park, PA 16802

(814) 865-1618

sws10@psu.edu

 

Nancy Tuana

Dupont/Class of ’49 Professor of Philosophy

Director of the Rock Ethics Institute

Faculty Participant in Penn State Institute for Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture  http://faculty.la.psu.edu/ssps/smtc.html

Penn State University

240 Sparks Building

University Park, PA 16802

(814) 865-1653

ntuana@psu.edu

 


Shannon Winnubst

Associate Professor of Women’s Studies

The Ohio State University

113 A University Hall

230 North Oval Mall

Columbus, OH 43210

(614) 292-3915

winnubst.1@osu.edu