Biography
Professor McWeeny specializes in philosophies of gender and race, philosophy of mind, phenomenology and existentialism, and decolonial studies. She is a progenitor of the field of feminist philosophy of mind and has developed a theory of gender that sees genders as a function of the type of self-body relation that structures consciousness. Her theoretical frameworks have been utilized by scholars as a means to address issues in gender theory, critical race pedagogies, legal studies, literary studies, queer theory, communication, ecofeminism, trauma studies, decolonial theory, and disability studies.
Professor McWeeny is a recipient of the Fulbright National Research Scholar Award (France 2019-2020), Editor in Chief of the award-winning journal Simone de Beauvoir Studies (www.brill.com/sdbs), and a member of the Editorial Board for the Studies in Feminist Philosophy series at Oxford University Press. She is currently writing a book on the phenomenology of gender.
Research interests
- Philosophy of Gender and Race
- Feminist Philosophy of Mind
- Phenomenology
- Decolonial Metaphysics
- Cross-Cultural Philosophy
- French Philosophy
- Ecofeminism
- History of Women Philosophers
Education
- Graduate Certificate, University of Oregon
- B.A., Colorado College
- M.A., University of Hawaii
- M.A., University of Oregon
- Ph.D., University of Oregon
Published books
Feminist Philosophy of Mind, ed. Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).
Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones, ed. Pedro DiPietro, Jennifer McWeeny, and Shireen Roshanravan (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019).
Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions, co-edited with Ashby Butnor (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).