Karmen MacKendrick | Teaching and Administration

Le Moyne College

  • Professor, 2007–present
  • Associate Chair, McDevitt Center for Creativity and Innovation, 2011–present
  • Joseph C. Georg Professor, 2009-2012
  • Associate Department Chair, 2006–2009
  • Associate Professor, 2005–2007
  • Assistant Professor, 2002–2005

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Courses taught

  • Philosophy 101

    Foundations of Western Philosophy

  • Philosophy 110

    Introduction to Western Philosophy

  • Philosophy 201

    Philosophical Perspectives on the Human Condition

  • Philosophy 302

    Issues in Ethics

  • Philosophy 309

    Art and Politics

  • Philosophy 315

    Modern Philosophy

  • Philosophy 316

    Medieval Philosophy

  • Philosophy 318

    Nineteenth Century Philosophy

  • Philosophy 320

    Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

  • Philosophy 409

    Philosophy, Faith and Mystic Union

  • Honors 102

    Ancient and Medieval World

  • Honors 202

    Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

  • Honors 215

    Saints and Sinners, interdisciplinary philosophy and art history course with Prof. Samuel Gruber

  • Honors 215

    Monsters and Monstrosity, interdisciplinary philosophy and religion course with Prof. Shawn Loner

  • Honors 301

    Ways of Knowing

  • Honors 401

    Contemporary World

  • Religion 345

    What Does Prayer Do?

  • Women’s Studies 401

    Senior Theory Seminar

  • Core 400, Transformations

    On Paying Attention: Focus in a World of Distraction

  • Independent Studies

    Philosophy or Honors studies and theses topics including Michel Foucault, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, hip-hop music, cosmetic surgery, community and identity, the grotesque in Southern literature, Neoplatonism and time, existential psychoanalysis, and saintly abjection.

Society for the Humanities at Cornell

Faculty Fellow, 2016–2017

Aarhus University, Denmark

Invited lecturer, May 2015

  • Week long seminar series with a public lecture, on gender, sex, language and corporeality.

Drew Theological School

Visiting faculty member, 2004

  • Church History 219

    Readings in Medieval Mysticism (M.Div course)

  • Theology 717

    Theology at the Limits of Language (Ph.D course)

  • Biblical Studies 690

    Ph.D. Tutorial on feminist readings of the Annunciation

Gettysburg College

Assistant professor, 1994-1999

  • Philosophy 101

    Introduction to Philosophy

  • Philosophy 105

    Contemporary Moral Issues

  • Philosophy 105

    Issues in Feminism, section of Contemporary Moral Issues

  • Philosophy 206

    Medieval Philosophy

  • Philosophy 208

    Kant and the 19th Century

  • Philosophy 101

    Introduction to Philosophy

  • Philosophy 105

    Contemporary Moral Issues

  • Philosophy 105

    Issues in Feminism, section of Contemporary Moral Issues

  • Philosophy 206

    Medieval Philosophy

  • Philosophy 208

    Kant and the 19th Century

  • Philosophy 334

    Philosophy and Art

  • Philosophy 337

    Philosophy and Religion

  • Philosophy 341

    Contemporary Continental Philosophy

  • First Year Seminar

    Dangerous Literature

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Graduate student, 1990-1994

  • Philosophy 100

    Concepts of the Person

  • Philosophy 104

    Moral Reasoning

  • Philosophy 108

    Critical Reasoning

  • Philosophy 109

    Literature and Human Life

  • Philosophy 100

    Concepts of the Person

  • Philosophy 104

    Moral Reasoning

  • Philosophy 108

    Critical Reasoning

  • Philosophy 109

    Literature and Human Life

  • Philosophy 206

    Introduction to Modern Philosophy

  • Philosophy 264

    Philosophy and the Arts

  • Philosophy 380

    Philosophy and Literature

  • AIM 100

    Remedial Grammar and Composition

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