Kristin Rodier, Ph.D.
Email: krodier@athabascau.ca
Area of Specialization: Feminist philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, fat studies
Education:
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Alberta, 2015. Dissertation title: Habits of Resistance: Feminism, Phenomenology, and Temporality. Supervisor: Dr. Cressida J. Heyes, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, University of Alberta. External Examiner: Dr. Gail Weiss, Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences, George Washington University.
Graduate Certificate in Technology-Based Learning, Athabasca University, 2019.
M.A. in Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan, 2007.
B.A. High Honours in Philosophy (recognition in French), University of Saskatchewan, 2005.
Current Position
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Centre for Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Athabasca University December 2023 – present.
Adjunct Professor, College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Research (Department of Philosophy), University of Saskatchewan, May 2022-2027.
Previous Positions
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Centre for Humanities, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Athabasca University April 2021-December 2023.
Subject Matter Expert (Course Design), CLST 201: Cultural Studies and Everyday Life, Athabasca University, July 2020-January 2021.
Instructional Designer/Writing Specialist, Writing and Learning Services, MacEwan University, July 2018- July 2020.
Individualized Study Tutor, Athabasca University, May 2017-March 2021.
Instructor of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan Sept 2020-January 2021.
Instructor of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Alberta, Sept 2011- March 2021.
Instructor of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Sept 2008- March 2021.
Instructor of Philosophy, Grant MacEwan University, 2015-2018.
Publications
Baker, Cindy and Kristin Rodier. “Performing the Performance Artist: Reflections on Taboo Bodies in Academia.” Excessive Bodies: A Journal of Artistic and Critical Fat Praxis and Worldmaking, vol. 1, pp. 79-93, 2023, https://doi.org/10.32920/eb.v1i1.1896
Rodier, Kristin and Samantha Brennan. “Would you Kill the Fat Man Hypothetical?: Fat Stigma in Philosophy.” The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, edited by Shelley Tremain, pp. 48-70, Bloomsbury, 2023.
Rodier, Kristin. “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Social Contract,” American Association for Philosophy Teachers: Studies in Pedagogy. vol, 8, 139-141, 2023, https://doi.org/10.5840/aaptstudies202382278
Rodier, Kristin. “Telling Feminist Philosophy Stories: Introduction to Feminist Philosophy Quarterly Symposium on Cressida Heyes’s Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge.” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 1-10, 2023.
“Rethinking Fat Studies and Activism through Women’s and Gender Studies Textbooks: ‘Fatspiration,’ ‘Thin Saviours,’ and Sexist Beauty Culture,” Canadian Woman StudiesJournal, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 7-15, 2023.
Rodier, Kristin and Samantha Brennan. “Teaching (and) Fat Stigma in Philosophy,” with Samantha Brennan, Teaching Philosophy, vol. 46, no 2. 2022. https://doi.org/10.5840/teachphil2022711174
Rodier, Kristin. “Take What You Can Get and Take Care of Yourself: Mapping Sexual Stereotypes of Fat Women on Television.” The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins, edited by Stephanie Patrick and Mythili Rajiva, Palgrave McMillan, 2022, pp. 101-122. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95935-7_6
Fidelak, Deanna and Kristin Rodier. "Incorporating Strategy Instruction in Assignment Design to Remove Barriers to Writing Assignments in Philosophy." Handbook of Applying Research on Universal Design for Learning Across Disciplines: Concepts, Case Studies,and Practical Implementation, edited by Frederic Fovet. IGI Global, 2021, pp. 97-114 doi: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7106-4.ch005.
Rodier, Kristin. “I am Cindy Baker.” Casual Encounters, Catalyst: Cindy Baker, edited by Ted Hiebert, Noxious Sector Press, 183-202. http://www.noxioussector.net/press/Hiebert-CasualEncounters.pdf. 2021
Benson, Lyle and Kristin Rodier, Rickard Enström, and Evandro Bocatto. “Implementing a University-Wide Academic Integrity E-learning Tutorial: A Canadian Case.” International Journal of Educational Integrity, vol. 15, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-019-0045-1
Rodier, Kristin. “Fat Temporality, Crisis Phenomenology, and the Politics of Refusal.” Rethinking Feminist Phenomenology: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives, edited bySarah Cohen Shabot and Christinia Landry, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, pp. 137-152. Rodier, Kristin and Joshua St. Pierre. “Introduction: Untimely Bodies: Futurity, Resistance, and Non-normative Embodiment” Feral Feminisms, 2016, pp. 5-10.
Rodier, Kristin. “La Grande Sartreuse?: Re-Citing Beauvoir in Feminist Theory.” Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, vol. 37, no. 1, 2015, pp. 168-175. https://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/1225/pdf_28
Rodier, Kristin and Michelle Meagher. “In Her Own Time: Rihanna, Post-Feminism, and Domestic Violence.” Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014, pp. 176-193. DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2014.944416.
Rodier, Kristin. “Sexuality and Existential-Phenomenological Method.” Sapere Aude: Revista de Filosofia, vol. 5, no. 9, 2014, pp. 320-332. http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/SapereAude/article/view/7511
Rodier, Kristin. “Can There Be a Postmodern Nationalism?” Ideas in History: Journal for the Nordic Society of the History of Ideas, vol. 7, no. 2, 2014, pp. 147-167.
“Clothing the Lived Fat Body.” Clothing Cultures, vol. 1, no. 2, 2014, pp. 171-178. doi: 10.1386/cc.1.2.171_1.
Rodier, Kristin. “Touching the Boundary Mark: Aging, Habit, and Temporality in Beauvoir’s La Vieillesse.” Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, vol. 10, no. 1, 2013, pp. 37-59. doi: 10.1.1.682.9864.
* Rodier, Kristin, Michelle Meagher and Randelle Nixon. “Cultivating a Critical Classroom for Viewing Gendered Violence in Music Video.” Feminist Teacher, vol. 23, no. 1, 2013, pp. 63-70. doi: 10.5406/femteacher.23.1.0063
Rodier, Kristin. “Feminist Philosophy 200-level.” Syllabus, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-10. http://www.syllabusjournal.org/syllabus/article/view/166/PDF
Rodier, Kristin. “Freedom and the Lived Body in Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir.” African Journal of Existential Philosophy, vol. 2, no. 2, 2010, pp. 1-22. Reprinted in Philosophy, Politics, and Religion in Africa, edited by Alloy S Ihuah, Lulu Publishing, 2012, pp. 8-33.
Rodier, Kristin. “Michael Smith’s Moral Realism and the Desires of Fully Rational Agents.” Kinesis: A Graduate Journal of Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 1, 2011, pp. 4-16.
Invited Presentations
“Encountering Fat Denigration: Spatial Allowances and Victim Reversibility” Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 4. Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, 2023.
“Teaching in the Virtual Lyceum?: Strategies for Philosophers in the Age of AI and Mobile Learning” Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, University of Saskatchewan, September 22, 2023.
“What Is It Like to Be A Fat Philosopher?: A Phenomenology of Bodies Out of Line and Out of Place.” Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 3. Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, 2022.
“Feeling Fat: Embodying Excess through the Fat-Feminist Grotesque.” With Cindy Baker, Intersections of Gender, University of Alberta, October 2021 and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Talks, Athabasca University September 2021.
“Building a Values-Based Approach to Academic Integrity: Institutional Responses to Academic Misconduct in the Digital Age.” With Lyle Benson, Rickard Enström, and Evandro Bocatto, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Talks, Athabasca University, March 6, 2020.
“Félix Ravaisson’s Of Habit and the Problem of Feminist Resistance.” University of Saskatchewan Role Model Speaker Series, February 8, 2013. Also presented at the University of Alberta Graduate Student Philosophy conference (peer reviewed full paper).
“The Feminist Subject of Fat Studies.” Feminist Research Speaker Series, University of Alberta, January 17, 2013.
Textbook
Dayton, Eric and Kristin Rodier. Critical Thinking, Logic, and Argumentation: An Introduction,[Open Educational Resource] Athabasca University (Remix Press), 2024.
Teaching Award
University of Alberta, Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award, 2010.
Editor
Guest editor, Symposium on Cressida Heyes’s Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, vol 9, no. 2. https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/issue/view/1510
Co-edited with Joshua St. Pierre: “Untimely Bodies: Resistance, Temporality, and Embodiment. ”Feral Feminisms, no. 5, 2016. https://feralfeminisms.com/untimely-bodies/
Conference Presentations
“Sensing Fat, Using Hunger,” Hypatia 40th anniversary conference, 2023, University of Oregon.
Roundtable participant, Book Launch for The Bloomsbury Guide to the Philosophy of Disability, edited by Shelley Tremain, PhiloSOPHIA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (virtual) 2023.
“The Role of Bodily Materiality in Methodologies of Sameness and Difference between Feminist and Critical Fat Studies Analysis,” Women’s and Gender Studies et Récherches Feministes (WGSRF) 2023
“Gutsy Arrivals: A Critical Fat Phenomenology of Contesting Disgust,” CSWIP, Oakland University, 2022.
“Fat Bodily Schemas: Gusty Arrivals, Fat Suits, and Cartwheels.” presenter and panel organizer, Fleshing it out: Fat Performance, Phenomenology, and Embodying Excess, WGSRF, (virtual) 2022.
(with Cindy Baker) “‘I’m so Brave’: Confronting White Feminism’s Fat Suit Problem.” American Popular Culture Association Conference (ACPA), Fat Studies Concentration (virtual), May 2021.
(Lyle Benson presenter) “Does an E-Learning Tutorial Increase Student’s Knowledge of Academic Integrity?” International Conference on Education. Co-authored with RickardEnström and Evandro Bocatto, January 2020.
(Lyle Benson presenter) “Implementing a University-Wide Academic Integrity Online Tutorial.” International Conference on Humanities, Psychology, and Social Science, Greece. Co-authored with Rickard Enström, and Evandro Bocatto, May 2019.
“Feminism, ‘Body Love,’ and Resistance in the Fat-o-sphere: Or, How are Introductory WGS Textbooks dealing with Fat?” Publishing Feminisms Symposium, Banff Centre for the Arts, May 2015.
*“Transformative Knowledge: Feminist Autonomy and the Phenomenological Method.” Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) and Society for Existential-Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC), Brock University, May 2014.
“Drop Dead Diva and Fat Queer Femininity.” WGSRF, Brock University, 2014; also, Popular Culture Association of Canada (PCAC), Calgary, Alberta, May 2014.
(with Samantha Brennan) “Fat Stigma and the Academy” CPA Symposium Engaging with the Ethics of Obesity: Philosophy and Public Health Policy, Brock University and CSWIP, Trent University, May 2014.
“Femininity and Lived Time in Beauvoir’s La Vieillesse.” CPA Symposium The Existential Politics of Time: Feminist/Anti-Racist/Critical Perspectives, University of Victoria, June 2013.
“Is it Worth Thinking about Ravaisson on the Question of Feminist Resistance?” CPA, University of Victoria, June 2013; also, CSWIP, Mount Royal University, October 2012.
“Intercorporeality in Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Beauvoir.” EPTC, University of Victoria, June 2013.
“Preventing a Fat Future: Concern Trolls, Healthism, and the New Eugenics.” APCA, Fat Studies Concentration, Washington, DC, March 2013.
“Lateral Agency: Eating with Lauren Berlant.” Women and Food Workshop, University of Alberta, Banff Centre for the Arts, September 2012.
“The Dialectic of White Privilege in Shannon Sullivan’s Revealing Whiteness.” Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference (WCPA), University of Victoria, October 2012; also, Reconfiguring White Ethnicity: Expressivity, Identity, Race, City University of New York, April 2012.
“La Grande Sartreuse?: Re-citing Beauvoir in Feminist Theory.” Canadian Women Studies Association Conference (CWSA), University of Waterloo, May 2012; also, Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, Transnational Canons, University of Alberta, March 2013.
“Temporality and the ‘Obesity Crisis’.” APCA, Fat Studies Concentration, Boston, Massachusetts. June, 2012; also presented at EPTC panel How Big is the Body? University of Waterloo, May 2012.
“Anticipating a Fat Future, Resisting the Habit of Fat Hatred.” Sociology Graduate Students’ Association Conference, University of Alberta, November 2011.
“Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Habit.” CSWIP, University of Victoria, October 2011.
“Touching the Boundary Mark: Beauvoir and Cultural Phenomenology.” Simone de Beauvoir Society, University of Oregon, June 2011.
*“Michael Smith’s Moral Realism and the Desires of Fully Rational Agents.” CPA, Concordia University, June 2010.
*“Beauvoir and the Possibility of a Materialist Feminism.” Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (CSCP), University of Alberta, October 2010.
“Simone de Beauvoir, Essentialism and ‘The Givens of Biology.’” CSWIP, University of Alberta, October 2007.
Knowledge Mobilization
“Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Kristin Rodier,” Biopolitical Philosophy, March 15, 2023, https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2023/03/15/dialogues-on-disability-shelley-tremain-interviews-kristin-rodier/
“What Taylor Swift’s Anti-Hero Controversy Can Tell Us about Fatphobia in Feminist Politics?” The Conversation, December, 2022 (co-authored with Heather McLean). https://theconversation.com/what-taylor-swifts-anti-hero-controversy-can-tell-us-about-fatphobia-in-feminist-politics-195287
“Mask or No Mask: Stop Using Fat People in Political Cartoons” The Conversation, March 2022. https://theconversation.com/mask-or-no-mask-stop-using-fat-people-in-political-cartoons-176631
“Domestic Bliss?: The Problem of Housework and Alienation.” Philosophy in the Community Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan Philosophy Department, November, 2010.
“Have I got an ‘F’ Word for You! Feminism, Foucault, and Facelifts.” Philosophy in the Community Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan Philosophy Department, February, 2009.
“What Is Existentialism?” Philosophy in the Community Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan Philosophy Department, January, 2007.
Media Appearances
Panelist (Barbie movie), Maritime Noon, CBC Radio, August 17, 2023. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-38-maritime-noon/clip/16003972-pierre-lebel-originally-edmundston-nb-speaks-yellowknife-nwt
Discussant (violence against feminist philosophy professor), Real Talk Live with Ryan Jesperson, June 30, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKWQEwq2n4&t=1850s
Discussant (fatphobia in Taylor Swift’s music video), Real Talk Live with Ryan Jesperson, January 4, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awEYVQOzm18
Interviewee, “Completely Unmanageable: Pandemic Taking Women out of the Workforce” CTV and St. Albert Gazette, 2020. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/completely-unmanageable-pandemic-taking-women-out-of-the-workforce-1.5240269
Interviewee, “Fit for All: Fashion Industry Urged to Think Big with Inclusive Sizing.” CBC
News, Radio Active, 2022. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/size-inclusive-fashion-plus-size-edmonton-1.6409802?cmp=rss
Interviewee, “Habit.” The Philosopher’s Zone, Australian Radio Broadcasting Corporation, June, 2016. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/habit/7481886
Interviewee, “Force of Habit.” Ideas from the Trenches. Canadian Radio Broadcasting Corporation, February, 2015. Produced by Nicola Luksic and Tom Howell. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/ideas-from-the-trenches-force-of-habit-1.2946666
Book Reviews
“Review of Talia Welsh’s Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health.” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 2024. Co-authored with Anna Mudde
“Review of 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology.” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 156, 2021.
“Are Poetic Habits Particular to the Aged?” Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, and Time, edited by Silvia Stoller, Helen Fielding, Dorothea Olkowski, and Christina Schües, De Gruyter, 2014, pp. 83-88.
“Review of Fat Kids: Truth and Consequences.” Fat Studies vol. 4, no. 2, 2015, pp. 230-233. doi: 10.1080/21604851.2015.1012472.
“Review of Frames of War.” Feminist Media Studies vol. 12, no. 4, 2012, pp. 613-615. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2012.723935.
“Review of The Second Sex, 2010 Translation.” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 1, 2012, pp. 294-300. DOI: 10.5840/symposium201216123. Co-authored with Emily Anne Parker
“Review of D’Habitude.” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 2, 2011, pp. 237-40. doi: 10.5840/symposium201115244.
“Review of Embodiment and Agency.” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review vol. 49, no. 4, 2011, pp. 647-650. doi: 10.1017/S0012217310000764
Commentary Presentations (Respondent)
Respondent to Corinne LaJoie, “Troubling Access: New Movements in the Philosophy of Disability” J-Series, Athabasca University.
“Feminist Phenomenology After Beauvoir: ‘Undutiful’ Phenomenology.” Panel co-organizer with Cristy Landry, EPTC, Regina, May 2018.
Respondent to Nathalie Nya. “Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonialist Experience.” WCPA, Vancouver, October 2014.
Respondent to Megan Dean. “Fat Shame as Being-in-the-World.” EPTC, Brock University, May 2014.
Respondent to Marguerite La Caze. “Impossible and Possible Reciprocity: Hate and Love in Beauvoir.” EPTC, University of Victoria, June 2013.
Discussant for Fat Sexualities Round Table, APCA, Washington, DC, March, 2013.
Respondent to Christiana Landry. “Toward a Beauvoirian Ontology.” EPTC, University of Waterloo, May 2012.
Respondent to Hasana Sharp. “Love and Hate in Descartes’ Passions.” CPA, Concordia University, June 2010.
Respondent to Noah Moss Brender. “Merleau-Ponty and Animal Movement.” EPTC, Concordia University, June, 2010.
Respondent to Ami Harbin. “Disorientation and Self-Destruction.” EPTC, Carleton University, May 2009.
Respondent to Christiana Landry. “The Riddle of Ambiguity: Existential Ethic or Ontological Catch-22?” WCPA, University of Alberta, October 2008.
Faculty Development Presentations
“Rethinking Reading Quizzes” with Deanna Fidelak, [video] Champions of Reimagined Assessment, Athabasca University.
“Love it or List it?: Online Teaching Edition.” with Kim Peacock and Paige McCLelland, Teaching and Learning Services, MacEwan University, April 16, 2020.
“Writing Techniques to Help Students Succeed, or How to Help Students with Disabilities Develop as Writers,” with Deanna Fidelak, Celebration of Teaching and Learning, MacEwan University, February 18, 2020.
“Why are We Still Teaching Citation Styles?” with Daniel Braun. Teaching and Learning Services, MacEwan University, December 5, 2019.
“The Online Academic Integrity Tutorial.” with Paul Sopcak and Daniel Braun. Teaching and Learning Services, MacEwan University, May 10, September 24, 2019.
Student Workshops
"Who, me? Cheat?” Academic integrity workshop series with Library and Write Site, Athabasca University, (2022 May, September, November, March 2023)
“Deep Reading,” “Writing an Annotated Bibliography,” “How to Start Your Paper Before the Night Before,” “SSHRC Application Information Session,” “How to Write Multiple Choice Exams,” “Write Your Way into Graduate School,” “Introduction to MLA Style,” “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism,” “Peer feedback,” “Reading and Writing for Argumentation,” “Time Management,” “Introduction to Academic Integrity,” “Thesis Writing,” Grant MacEwan University (in-class and for various student groups and faculty request workshops), 2018-20.
Graduate Students
Karli Olexyn. “‘Doing it Utterly and Completely Wrong’: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Perspectives of Fat Bodies as Part of Healing from an Eating Disorder”, Master of Counselling, Athabasca University, (Internal-external examiner), November 2023.