Cynthia Willett

Professor

Department of Philosophy
561 S. Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-2241
404-712-9425 FAX

cynthia.willett@emory.edu

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1988

Research: political ethics, moral philosophy, ethics and social theory, race and gender studies, philosophy and literature, new critical theory, American social thought.

Selected Publications: Author of Irony in the Age of Empire (Indiana, 2008); The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris (Cornell, 2001); Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (Routledge, 1995). Editor of Theorizing Multiculturalism (Blackwell 1998); articles in Cultural Critique, Philosophy and Literature, Research in Phenomenology, and Journal in Speculative Philosophy.

Fellowships and Honors: Co-Director, American Philosophical Society (Eastern, 2008-2010), Executive Board, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Emory College Winship Distinguished Research Scholar (1998-2001); Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award at University of Kansas (1995).

Co-editor of the web-based Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy: http://web.mit.edu/sgrp

Publications

• Irony in the Age of Empire (Indiana, 2008)
• A Phenomenology of Racialized Space and The Limits of Liberalism, Racism In Mind, M. Levine and T. Pataki, eds. (Cornell UP, 2004).
• Rethinking Autonomy In An Age of Interdependence: Freedom in Analytic, Postmodern, and Pragmatist Feminisms.