A more systematic list of my completed writing projects can be found on my CV. My CV also provides a comprehensive list of conference presentations, as well as other talks, that I've given. I'm happy to provide working drafts upon request.
Dissertation
My dissertation consists substantive introduction and five chapters. The introduction situates the remainder of the project within the extant affect theory literature, and posits that I will set aside the emotion-affect distinction as more contemporary feminist affect theorists seem to have done. The first chapter provides an affective account of ableism, that is, an account of the ways that ableism is a felt experience. The next chapter builds on this discussion of injustice and the emotions by surveying and critiquing the recent affective injustice literature. Much of the criticism here rests on the ambiguity baked into extant affective injustice writings, and I argue that this ambiguity leaves these theories open to pernicious misinterpretation by those who wish to weaponize affect. Chapter 3 takes on a critical-cultural approach, focusing on the weaponization of therapy-speak as a concern that insufficiently robust accounts of affective injustice might gloss over too quickly. The fourth chapter expands upon the work of the previous chapters by studying the amplification of affect (and thus, I argue, of affective injustice) in cyberspace. Finally, chapter 5 proposes a revitalized and historicized understanding of attentive care as an ameliorative ethical principle that might help us to better understand our obligations toward others’ emotions, particularly in cases of implicitly (rather than forthrightly) unjust attitudes.
Works-in-Progress
More Hard Problems of Disability: On Speaking for Others
In this project, which is currently under development as a journal-length manuscript and a series of public-facing pieces, I offer a rereading of Linda Alcoff's "The Problem of Speaking for Others" through critical disability studies scholarship. I argue that traditional means of deferring to in-group members might be unsettled by cognitive disability.
A Crisis of Care: Re-evaluating Epistemic Injustice
As a feminist theorist, I find myself indebted to the seminal work of Miranda Fricker. In this paper, however, I offer pushback against her epistemic injustice framework. More specifically, I argue that what's often diagnosed as epistemic injustice might instead be a failure to care, rather than a failure of an epistemic capacities (knowledge, belief, etc.). I also consider reasons that recapitulating epistemic wrongs as failures of/to care might be unattractive, namely because of the subjective nature of care.
Miscellaneous
My miscellaneous projects, including book reviews and blog posts, are linked on my CV.