KAREN ADKINS is a professor of philosophy at Regis University. She has published Gossip, Epistemology, Power: Knowledge Underground (Palgrave, 2017), and in the journals Social Epistemology, Expositions, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada. (kadkins@regis.edu)
JESSYKA FINLEY is an assistant professor of American Studies at Middlebury College. Her work examines black feminism, expressive arts, and popular culture. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in African Diaspora Studies. Her essays have been published in The Journal of Popular Culture and Studies in American Humor. Her essay “Black Women's Satire as (Black) Postmodern Performance” won the Jack Rosenbalm Prize for Scholarship in American Humor. Finley is writing a cultural history of black women's humor, which analyzes humor as a site where black women challenge and expand traditional narratives of resistance, redress, and feminism. (jfinley@middlebury.edu)
VALERIE OVED GIOVANINI received her PhD in philosophy, art, and critical thought from The European Graduate School. Her doctoral research examines the close relationship between persecution and ethics in the works of Emmanuel Levinas and Sigmund Freud in developing an ethics of alterity. Her general research interests include phenomenology, Hebraic philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the role language plays in identity formation. Recent publications include her work on Husserl's aesthetics as well as poetic language in Levinas's ethics. She is also a contributing editor to the forthcoming special issue in Free Associations titled “Aesthetic Subjects.” She teaches philosophy in Los Angeles. (Valerie.giovanini@egs.edu)
TRIP GLAZER is a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. His research focuses on naturalistic approaches to emotion as well as the role that body language plays in communication, especially in contexts of moral damage and moral repair. (trip.glazer@gmail.com)
HILARY MALATINO is an assistant professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Philosophy, and a research associate with the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University. Their research and teaching is located at the intersections of queer theory, trans and intersex studies, science and technology studies, feminist bioethics, continental philosophy, and decolonial thought. (hjm30@psu.edu)
AMY MARVIN is a feminist philosopher who received her PhD from the University of Oregon; her dissertation is on the politics of humor. Her work can be found in Hypatia and in the inaugural issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (under Amy Billingsley). She was a co‐organizer of the Trans* Experience in Philosophy conference, and her essay “Transsexuality, the Curio, and the Transgender Tipping Point” is forthcoming in Curiosity Studies: Toward a New Ecology of Knowledge. She enjoys gradually baking better and better breads. You can email her at (amyrbillingsley@gmail.com).
KATHRYN J. NORLOCK is a professor of philosophy and the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. She writes widely on relational ethics, moral psychology, feminism, and metaphilosophy. Her recent publications include “Can't Complain” in Journal of Moral Philosophy and “The Challenges of Extreme Moral Stress” in Criticism and Compassion: The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card (edited by Robin Dillon and Armen Marsoobian). She is a co‐founder and co‐editor of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. (kathrynnorlock@gmail.com)
BIANCA RUS received her PhD in gender and women studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her thesis is titled “The Ethical and Political Functions of Revolt in Julia Kristeva's Novels.” Currently she teaches courses in women and gender studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Her research interests are broadly situated at the intersection between feminist thought, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. https://sites.google.com/site/biancarus/home (brus@wlu.ca)
OLI STEPHANO teaches philosophy at Vassar College. His research and teaching interests span feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, and continental philosophy, with special attention to questions of materiality, normativity, and becoming. He is currently at work on a book developing an immanent ecological ethics drawn from Spinoza, based on how bodies affect one another's capacities and abilities to persist. (ostephano@vassar.edu)
CARLY THOMSEN is an assistant professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Middlebury College. She completed her PhD in feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University. Her work on reproductive justice, LGBTQ activism, queer rurality, and feminist pedagogy has been published or is forthcoming in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies, Twenty Years of Memorializing: The Cultural Legacy of Matthew Shepard, and The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. (cthomsen@middlebury.edu)
KAREN WEINGARTEN is an associate professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Her first book is Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880–1940 (Rutgers University Press, 2014), and she is currently writing a book on the cultural history of pregnancy and anxiety. She can be reached at (karen.weingarten@qc.cuny.edu).