Anne Mamary
Professor, Philosophy
Chair of Personnel Committee
Faculty advisor for MJUR (Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research)
Interests
Plato and Poetry
Feminist Philosophy
Post-colonial studies and crises of modernity
Education
A.B. — Chemistry, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1986
Ph.D. — State University of New York at Binghamton, 1995
Courses Taught
Phil 101: Introduction to Philosophy
Phil 201: Logic
Phil 207: Ethics
Phil/Clas 205: Classical and Medieval Philosophy
Phil 307: Modern Philosophy
Phil 211: Philosophy of Education
Phil 225: Philosophy & Feminism
Phil 311: Contemporary Philosophy
Phil 315: Philosophy of Art
Phiil/Relg 340: Africana Philosophy
Phil/Relg/Estu 310: Environmental Ethics
Selected Work
Critical Animal Studies Faculty Paper/Project of the Year, 2020.
Hatch Award for Excellence in Service, Monmouth College, 2020.
Council of Independent Colleges seminar, “The Verbal Art of Plato,” Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, 2017
Books edited:
with Meredith Traxler Drees. Politeia: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honor of Anthony Preus (SUNY Press, in progress).
The Alchemical Harry Potter: Essays on Transfigurations in J.K. Rowling’s Novels. McFarland, See article on MC website about teaching Harry Potter. MC alumni, Isaac Willis, ’18, Sean Paulsgrove, ’18, and Tamyra Dixon-Rankin, ’81 have articles in the anthology.
Hatch Award for Excellence in Service, Monmouth College, 2020.
Council of Independent Colleges seminar, “The Verbal Art of Plato,” Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, 2017
Recent publications:
“Introduction.” The Alchemical Harry Potter: Essays on Transfiguration in J.K. Rowling’s Novels, 2021, pp. 1–26.
“Ruddy Stargazers: Centaurs, Philosophers, and a Life Worth Living.” The Alchemical Harry Potter: Essays on Transfiguration in J.K. Rowling’s Novels, 2021, pp. 265–85.
“Epilogue: Friendship Hallowed, Pure, and Ever-Present.” The Alchemical Harry Potter: Essays on Transfiguration in J.K. Rowling’s Novels, 2021, pp. 287–90.
“How Do You Know His Name is Gabriel?” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 17, Issue 5, October 2020: 34–62.
“Ruddy Stargazers: Centaurs, Philosophers, and a Life Worth Living.” Plato in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modern Times: Selected Papers from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, edited by John Finamore and Mark Nyvlt, Prometheus Trust, 2020, pp. 117–28.
“How Do You Know His Name is Gabriel? Finding Communion with the Singular Lives of Creatures.” Feeling Animal Death: Being Hosts to Ghosts, edited by Brianne Donaldson and Harrison King, Rowman and Littlefield, 2019, pp. 185–98.
“Geometry in the Humming of the Strings.” The Bright and the Good: The Connection Between Intellectual and Moral Virtues, edited by Audrey Anton, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, 3–18.