Michael Reno Curriculum Vitae

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Michael Reno Curriculum Vitae

Office Address Home Address

Department of Philosophy and Religion 850 Wilkinson Trace Apt. 167

Cherry Hall Rm 300 Bowling Green, KY 42103

1906 College Heights Blvd. email: [email protected]

Western Kentucky University phone (mobile): 517-316-5870

Bowling Green, KY 42101 web:www.msu.edu/~renomich

phone: 270-745-3136 fax: 270-745-5261

Areas of Specialization

Social and Political Philosophy, 20th_{Century European Philosophy, Critical Social Theory} Areas of Competence

Modern European Philosophy, Ethics—theory and applied (environmental and biomedical), Aesthetics

Reading Competence in German Education

Ph.D: Michigan State University, August 2011

Dissertation: “Adorno and the Possibility of Practical Reason” Chair: Richard T. Peterson

M.A.: Philosophy, Michigan State University, 2001

Thesis: “Between Violence and Power: Toward an Arendtian Notion of Structural Violence” B.S.: Philosophy, English, Women’s Studies Minor, Illinois State University, 1999

Peer Reviewed Publications

“Adorno, Experience, and the Possibility of Practical Reason,” Idealistic Studies, 44.1, 2015. “Second Order Desires and the Devaluation of Humanity,” peer commentary on

Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg , and Rebecca Roache, “Human Engineering and Climate Change,” Ethics, Policy, and Environment, 15.2, Summer 2012.

Review Essays

“Thinking Politics Together: Arendt and Adorno?” Review of Lars Rensmann and Samir Gandesha, ed. Arendt and Adorno in Radical Philosophy Review 16:3, 2013, pp. 821-825. Review of Barbara Fultner, ed. Jürgen Habermas: Key Concepts, David Ingram, Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, and Lasse Thomassen, Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed in Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, July 2012.

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Selected Presentations and Colloquia

“An Ecology of Politics, A History of Nature: Arendt and Leopold,” Indiana and

Kentucky Philosophical Associations Joint Meeting, Owensboro, KY, spring 2015. “Adorno on Nature and Experience,” International Association for Environmental

Philosophy, 17th_{Annual Meeting, Eugene, OR, fall 2013.}

“Is the Historicizing Project Still Radical?” workshop at Radical Philosophy Association Conference, Buffalo, NY, fall 2012, with J. Eric Lambert and Shannon Proctor. “The Commodity Form and the Empty Space of Nature,” Historical Materialism

Conference 2012, York University, Toronto, spring 2012.

“Adorno, Suffering, and Universals,” International Social Philosophy Conference, Toronto, summer 2010.

“The Political Imagination and Political Subjectivity,” Colloquium Presentation, Grand Valley State University, fall 2009.

“Adorno, Imagination, and the Political,” Brennan Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, spring 2007.

“Adorno, Habermas, and the Limits of Enlightenment,” International Social Philosophy Conference, summer 2004, Co-authored with Kelin Emmett.

“MacKinnon and the Possibility of Feminism,” Central APA, Radical Philosophy Association, spring 2004.

Teaching Experience

Western Kentucky University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2014-Present Upper Level

Ethical Theory, fall 2014 Ethics, fall 2014

Kant and Idealism, spring 2015 Introductory Level

The Committed Life (introduction to philosophy with a social and political emphasis), fall 2014 and spring 2015

Michigan State University, Instructor/Assistant. Prof 2004-2006, 2009-2014 Upper Level

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Ethical Theory, fall 2009, spring 2011, fall 2011, spring 2012, spring 2014 Philosophy of Law, summer 2004 and 2006

Social and Political Philosophy, fall 2005 Philosophy of Technology, fall 2005 Introductory Level

Introduction to Logic and Reasoning, summer 2002, 2005, spring, fall 2013 Introduction to Philosophy (Honors) fall 2011

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Utopias, Dystopias, and Human Responsibility to the Environment, fall 2013 and spring 2014

Lansing Community College, Instructor, 2010-2014 Introductory Level

Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, spring 2011, spring 2013*, summer 2013*, summer 2014*

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, fall 2010, 2011, spring 2012, spring and fall 2013*, spring 2014*

Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, fall 2012*, fall 2013, spring 2014 Introduction to Ethics, fall 2010, fall 2011 through fall 2012, spring 2014 Ethical Issues in Medicine, spring 2011

*hybrid or online instantiation of course

Central Michigan University, Art and Design Department, Instructor, 2012 Upper Level

Aesthetics, spring and fall 2012

Eastern Michigan University, Instructor, 2009-2010 Upper Level

Political Philosophy, spring and fall 2010 Introductory Level

Philosophies of Life, fall 2009, spring and fall 2010

Grand Valley State University, Visiting Instructor (full time), 2006-2009 Upper Level

Aesthetics

Independent Study in Critical Social Theory Introductory Level

Ethics

Introduction to Philosophy Courses as Teaching Assistant

Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University Introduction to Logic and Reasoning, fall 1999

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Philosophy of Law, spring 2000

Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University The Self and Personal Identity, fall 2000

Philosophy in Literature, spring 2001 Freedom and Modernity, fall 2001

Genocide, Justice, and Reconciliation, spring 2002 Identity and Responsibility, fall 2002

Violence, Reason, and Politics, spring 2003

Self, Society, and Technology, fall 2003 and 2004, spring 2004, 2005, and 2006 Awards

Summer Research Fellowship, Michigan State University, Department of Philosophy, 2005 C. L. R. James/Malcolm X Award, Illinois State University, 1999

Dean's List, fall 1997 through spring 1999, Illinois State University

Debate Scholarship, fall 1995 through spring 1999, Illinois State University Service

Western Kentucky University

Philosophy Representative to the Recruitment and Retention Committee, 2014-2015 Co-Advisor, Philosophy Club, 2014-2015

Michigan State University

Graduate Student Representative to the Advisory Policy Committee, 2004-2005 Graduate Student Representative to the Committee of the Whole, 2004-2005 Graduate Student Representative to the Graduate Committee, 2004-2005 Graduate Employee Union, Philosophy Department Steward, 2002-2004 Other Professional Experience

Referee, Federal Governance a graduate journal of theory and politics, 2006-2011

Curriculum Development in Peace and Justice Studies, Research Assistant, Michigan State University, Ethics and the Issues of War and Peace, spring 2005

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References

Richard T. Peterson

Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy

368 Farm Lane, 503 South Kedzie Hall, Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824-1032

Tel: (517) 355-4490

Email: [email protected] Marilyn Frye

Professor Emerita, Department of Philosophy

Tel: (517) 355-4490 Email: [email protected] Kelly Parker

Professor, Department of Philosophy Grand Valley State University

B-3 200 Mackinac Hall 1 Campus Drive

Allendale, Michigan 49401-9403 Tel.: (616) 331-3257

Email: [email protected] Frederick Rauscher

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Tel: (517) 355-4490

Email: [email protected] Lisa Schwartzman

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Tel: (517) 355-4490

Email: [email protected] Eric Bain-Selbo

Professor and Department Head Department of Philosophy & Religion Western Kentucky University

Cherry Hall Rm. 300 1906 College Heights Blvd. Tel: (270) 745-3136