Michael Reno Curriculum Vitae Office Address Home Address Department of Philosophy and Religion 850 Wilkinson Trace Apt. 167 Cherry Hall Rm 300 Bowling Green, KY 42103 1906 College Heights Blvd. email: michaelreno@post.com Western Kentucky University phone (mobile): 517-316-5870 Bowling Green, KY 42101 web:www.msu.edu/~renomich phone: 270-745-3136 fax: 270-745-5261 Areas of Specialization Social and Political Philosophy, 20 th Century European Philosophy, Critical Social Theory Areas of Competence Modern European Philosophy, Ethics theory and applied (environmental and biomedical), Aesthetics Reading Competence in German Education Ph.D: Michigan State University, August 2011 Dissertation: Adorno and the Possibility of Practical Reason Chair: Richard T. Peterson M.A.: Philosophy, Michigan State University, 2001 Thesis: Between Violence and Power: Toward an Arendtian Notion of Structural Violence B.S.: Philosophy, English, Women s Studies Minor, Illinois State University, 1999 Peer Reviewed Publications Adorno, Experience, and the Possibility of Practical Reason, Idealistic Studies, 44.1, 2015. Second Order Desires and the Devaluation of Humanity, peer commentary on Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, and Rebecca Roache, Human Engineering and Climate Change, Ethics, Policy, and Environment, 15.2, Summer 2012. Review Essays Thinking Politics Together: Arendt and Adorno? Review of Lars Rensmann and Samir Gandesha, ed. Arendt and Adorno in Radical Philosophy Review 16:3, 2013, pp. 821-825. Review of Barbara Fultner, ed. Jürgen Habermas: Key Concepts, David Ingram, Habermas: Introduction and Analysis, and Lasse Thomassen, Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed in Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, July 2012.
Selected Presentations and Colloquia An Ecology of Politics, A History of Nature: Arendt and Leopold, Indiana and Kentucky Philosophical Associations Joint Meeting, Owensboro, KY, spring 2015. Adorno on Nature and Experience, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, 17 th Annual Meeting, Eugene, OR, fall 2013. Is the Historicizing Project Still Radical? workshop at Radical Philosophy Association Conference, Buffalo, NY, fall 2012, with J. Eric Lambert and Shannon Proctor. The Commodity Form and the Empty Space of Nature, Historical Materialism Conference 2012, York University, Toronto, spring 2012. Adorno, Suffering, and Universals, International Social Philosophy Conference, Toronto, summer 2010. The Political Imagination and Political Subjectivity, Colloquium Presentation, Grand Valley State University, fall 2009. Adorno, Imagination, and the Political, Brennan Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, spring 2007. Adorno, Habermas, and the Limits of Enlightenment, International Social Philosophy Conference, summer 2004, Co-authored with Kelin Emmett. MacKinnon and the Possibility of Feminism, Central APA, Radical Philosophy Association, spring 2004. Teaching Experience Western Kentucky University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2014-Present Ethical Theory, fall 2014 Ethics, fall 2014 Kant and Idealism, spring 2015 The Committed Life (introduction to philosophy with a social and political emphasis), fall 2014 and spring 2015 Michigan State University, Instructor/Assistant. Prof 2004-2006, 2009-2014 Ethical Issues in Health Care, fall 2012 and spring 2013
Ethical Theory, fall 2009, spring 2011, fall 2011, spring 2012, spring 2014 Philosophy of Law, summer 2004 and 2006 Social and Political Philosophy, fall 2005 Philosophy of Technology, fall 2005 Introduction to Logic and Reasoning, summer 2002, 2005, spring, fall 2013 Introduction to Philosophy (Honors) fall 2011 Interdisciplinary Humanities Utopias, Dystopias, and Human Responsibility to the Environment, fall 2013 and spring 2014 Lansing Community College, Instructor, 2010-2014 Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, spring 2011, spring 2013*, summer 2013*, summer 2014 * Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, fall 2010, 2011, spring 2012, spring and fall 2013*, spring 2014* Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, fall 2012*, fall 2013, spring 2014 Introduction to Ethics, fall 2010, fall 2011 through fall 2012, spring 2014 Ethical Issues in Medicine, spring 2011 *hybrid or online instantiation of course Central Michigan University, Art and Design Department, Instructor, 2012 Aesthetics, spring and fall 2012 Eastern Michigan University, Instructor, 2009-2010 Political Philosophy, spring and fall 2010 Philosophies of Life, fall 2009, spring and fall 2010 Grand Valley State University, Visiting Instructor (full time), 2006-2009 Aesthetics Independent Study in Critical Social Theory Ethics Introduction to Philosophy Courses as Teaching Assistant Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University Introduction to Logic and Reasoning, fall 1999
Philosophy of Law, spring 2000 Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University The Self and Personal Identity, fall 2000 Philosophy in Literature, spring 2001 Freedom and Modernity, fall 2001 Genocide, Justice, and Reconciliation, spring 2002 Identity and Responsibility, fall 2002 Violence, Reason, and Politics, spring 2003 Self, Society, and Technology, fall 2003 and 2004, spring 2004, 2005, and 2006 Awards Summer Research Fellowship, Michigan State University, Department of Philosophy, 2005 C. L. R. James/Malcolm X Award, Illinois State University, 1999 Dean's List, fall 1997 through spring 1999, Illinois State University Debate Scholarship, fall 1995 through spring 1999, Illinois State University Service Western Kentucky University Philosophy Representative to the Recruitment and Retention Committee, 2014-2015 Co-Advisor, Philosophy Club, 2014-2015 Michigan State University Graduate Student Representative to the Advisory Policy Committee, 2004-2005 Graduate Student Representative to the Committee of the Whole, 2004-2005 Graduate Student Representative to the Graduate Committee, 2004-2005 Graduate Employee Union, Philosophy Department Steward, 2002-2004 Other Professional Experience Referee, Federal Governance a graduate journal of theory and politics, 2006-2011 Curriculum Development in Peace and Justice Studies, Research Assistant, Michigan State University, Ethics and the Issues of War and Peace, spring 2005
References Richard T. Peterson Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy Email: petrsnrt@msu.edu Marilyn Frye Professor Emerita, Department of Philosophy Email: fryem@msu.edu Kelly Parker Professor, Department of Philosophy Grand Valley State University B-3 200 Mackinac Hall 1 Campus Drive Allendale, Michigan 49401-9403 Tel.: (616) 331-3257 Email: parkerk@gvsu.edu Frederick Rauscher Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Email: rauscher@msu.edu Lisa Schwartzman Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Email: lhschwar@msu.edu Eric Bain-Selbo Professor and Department Head Department of Philosophy & Religion Western Kentucky University Cherry Hall Rm. 300 1906 College Heights Blvd. Tel: (270) 745-3136 Email: Eric.Bain-Selbo@wku.edu