Dr. Luna Dolezal
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Name | Luna Dolezal |
| College Address | Philosophy, 5th Floor Arts Building Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland |
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| Main Department | Philosophy | |
| College Title | IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow | |
| Research Project | Phenomenology, Self–Presentation and the 21st Century Body | |
| luna.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) |
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| Biography | |
| 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. 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 titled Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body (Lexington Books, forthcoming 2014). | |
| Selected Publications | |
| Monograph | |
The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body (Lexington Books, forthcoming 2014) |
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| Articles | |
'Thinking Through the Body with Richard Shusterman', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Forthcoming 2014. 'The Body, Gender and Biotechnologies in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods', Literature and Medicine, Forthcoming 2013. 'Reconsidering the Look in Sartre's Being and Nothingness' Sartre Studies International, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2012, Pp. 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. |
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| Book Chapters | |
'Yoga for Women?: The Problem of Beautiful Bodies' in Yoga and Philosophy: Bending Mind and Body, Liz Swan (ed.), Wiley–Blackwell, 2011. |
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| Book Reviews | |
Review of Hospitality of the Matrix by Irina Aristarkhova, Columboa Univeristy Press, 2012, Hospitality and Society 2013. |
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Review of Starting with Merleau–Ponty by Katherine J. Morris, Continuum, 2012, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2013. |
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Review of Sartre on the Body Katherine J. Morris (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, Body and Society 16(4): 99–104. |
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'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. |
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Review of Self–Transformations: 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. |
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Review of Material Phenomenology by Michael Henry (New York, Fordham University Press, 2008) Kinesis, 35(1) Spring 2009. |
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| Interviews | |
Interview with Professor Gail Weiss, Pespectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 1. 2008. |
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| Selected Conference Presentations | |
'The Malleable Body' at Body and Technology: Instruments of Somaesthetics, Florida Atlantic University, USA, 24–26 January 2013. |
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'The Malleable Body and the Case of Aimee Mullins' at Bodies in Motion, University of Oslo, Norway, 24–26 October 2012. |
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'Reclaiming the Nude Female Body: Objectification and Fitzgerald and Stapelton's The Work the Work and Nic Green&339;s Trilogy' at the Seminario de Estudos de la Mujer, University of Oviedo, Spain, 8 March 2012. |
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'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. |
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'Body, Shame and Gender: The Shameful Experience of Female Embodiment' at Bodies in Crisis, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 2–4 November 2011. |
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'Phenomenology, The Body and Emotion: Shame and Embodied Experience' at WIP Philosophy Seminar, University College Dublin, USA, 18 October 2011. |
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'Sartre, Shame and the Body: Feminists Reflections' at The Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) panel at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, University College Dublin, Ireland, 9–11 July 2011. |
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'The Phenomenological Significance of Body Shame: Reconcilling Phenomenology and Social Constructionism' at Bodily Phenomenology, Sodertölm University, Sweden, 19–21 May 2010. |
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'The Body Shaped by Shame. Reflections on the Phenomenology of Shame' at Embodied Subjectivity, University College Dublin conference hosted at the Royal Irish Academy, 27–28 May 2013. |
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'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. |
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'The (In)visible Body: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Case of Cosmetic Surgery' at Embodiment and Identity, University of Hull, UK, 22–23 May 2008. |
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'The Phenomenology of Telepresence' at 4E Cognition, University of Central Florida, USA, 20–24 October 2007. |
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'Justice through Irony and Literature' at Beyond Reasonable Doubt, CRASSH, Cambridge University, UK, 7–9 September 2007. |
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'The Shameful Body: The Philosopher and Corporeal Appreciation' at Embodied and Situated Cognition, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland, 16–18 November 2006. |
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