Dr. Luna Dolezal

Position: IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Project: Phenomenology, Self–Presentation, and the 21st Century Body

Email: dolezal@tcd.ie

 

 

 

Education

Ph.D. (Philosophy) University College Dublin (2007–2011)

M.A. (Continental Philosophy) University College Dublin (2006–2007)

Postgraduate Certificate (Literary Theory) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal (2005–2006)

B.Sc., Hons in Physics (major) and Philosophy (minor) University of New South Wales, Australia (1998–2002)

Bio

Luna Dolezal is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin. She was previously the IJPS Postdoctoral fellow in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research is primarily in the areas of phenomenology, existentialism, embodiment theory and feminist philosophy. In particular her current research explores the notion of the 'malleable body' under biomedical paradigms and practices. Her writing has been published in several academic journals such as Hypatia, Body and Society and Human Technology. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body (Lexington Books, Forthcoming 2014).

Publications

Monograph
The Body and Same: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body Lexington Books (Forthcoming 2014).

Journal Articles
'Reconsidering the Look in Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Sartre Studies International. Vol. 18. No. 1, 2012: 9–28.

'The (In)visible Body: Feminism, Phenomenology and the Case of Cosmetic Surgery'. Hypatia. Vol. 25, Autumn 2010.

'The Remote Body: Phenomenology of Telepresence and Re–embodiment'. Human Technology. Vol. 5. No. 2. November 2009.

Book Chapters
'Yoga for Women?: The Problem of Beautiful Bodies'. Yoga and Philosophy: Bending Mind and Body, Edited by Liz Swan. Wiley–Blackwell, 2011.

Book Reviews
Review of Hospitality of the Matrix, by Irina Aristarkhova. Columboa University Press, 2012. Hospitality and Society, forthcoming 2013.

Review of Starting with Merleau–Ponty, by Katherine J. Morris. Continuum, 2012. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Forthcoming 2013.

Review of Sartre on the Body. edited by Katherine J. Morris. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Body and Society 16(4): 99–104

'Critiquing 'Consumer' Feminism', Review of Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (Virago Books, 2010), by Natasha Walker and One Dimensional Women (Zero Books, 2009), by Nina Power, Australian Women's Book Review, 22(1): 11–13.2010.

Review of Self–Transformations: Foucault, Ethics and Normalized Bodies, by Cressida Heyes. Oxford University Press, 2008. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 17(2): 345–349. 2009.

Review of Material Phenomenology, by Michael Henry. New York, Fordham University Press, 2008. Kinesis. 35(1). Spring 2009.

Interviews
Interview with Professor Gail Weiss. Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 1, 2008.

Selected Conference Presentations
'The Malleable Body' at Body and Technology: Instruments of Somaesthetics, Florida Atlantic University, USA. 24–26 January 2013.

'The Malleable Body and the Case of Aimee Mullins' at Bodies in Motion, University of Oslo, Norway. 24–26 October 2012.

'Reclaiming the Nude Female Body: Objectification and Fitzgerald and Stapleton's The Work The Work and Nic Green's Trilogy' at the Seminario de Estudos de la Mujer, University of Oviedo, Spain. 8 March 2012.

'A Mask of Agelessness: Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods and the Year–Zero Face' at Masquerades: Lesbian Lives 2012, University College Dublin, Ireland. 17–18 February 2012.

'Body, Shame and Gender: The Shameful Experience of Female Embodiment' at Bodies in Crisis, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. 2–4 November 2011.

'Phenomenology, the Body and Emotion: Shame and Embodied Experience' at WIP Philosophy Seminar, University College Dublin. 18 October 2011.

'Sartre, Shame and the Body: Feminist Reflections' at the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Panel in the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association. University College Dublin, 9–11 July 2010.

'The Phenomenological Significance of Body Shame: Reconciling Phenomenology and Social Constructionism' at Bodily Phenomenology, Sodertörn University, Sweden, 19–21 May 2010.

'The Body Shaped by Shame: Reflection on the Phenomenology of Shame' at Embodied Subjectivity. University College Dublin conference hosted at the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland. 27–28 May 2010.

'The Expecting Normate: Exploring the Consequences of Normalized Pregnant Embodiment' at Natality, Embodiment and the Political: Feminist Conversations. University of Dundee, Scotland. 28–29 May 2009.

'The (In)visible Body: Phenomenology, Feminism and the case of Cosmetic Surgery' at Embodiment and Identity, University of Hull, UK. 22–23 May 2008.

'The Phenomenology of Telepresence' at 4E Cognition, University of Central Florida, USA. 20–24 October 2007.

'Justice through Irony and Literature' at Beyond Reasonable Doubt, CRASSH, Cambridge University, UK. 7–9 September 2007.

'The Shameful Body: The Philosopher and Corporeal Apperception' at Embodied and Situated Cognition, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland. 16–18 November 2006.