Katharine Wolfe

Faculty, Language and Thinking Program

Biography: Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at Stony Brook University, Katharine Wolfe's (B.A. McGill (Philosophy and English); M.A. Trent (Theory, Culture, and Politics)) recent work has addressed shame, moral harm, and the lived experience of need. Her dissertation at Stony Brook draws on feminist and existential accounts of the relational nature of selfhood to argue that need is a deeply relational experience, that many needs arise out of investments of care in the world and are other-oriented, and that the inner necessitation to action that we feel in some experiences of need may have a place in ethical life. Her writing has been published in Rethinking Marxism, Contemporary Aesthetics, Front Magazine, et al. She begins a teaching fellowship at the University of King's College this September.

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