Presenter Bios
Alexander Antonopoulos is a Canadian scholar and researcher. He teaches courses in gender and sexuality at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montréal. His recent work on Beauvoir includes a chapter on her essay on Claude Bernard appearing in the 2017 Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir. He is currently developing a book on trans masculine embodiment in The Second Sex.
Dr María Isabel Corbí Sáez is a permanent/tenured lecturer at the Alicante University in Spain, specializing in French Literature and Culture. Her research interests in French women writers and in XXth century French Literature led her to Simone de Beauvoir. Interested in the literary aspect of Beauvoir's writing and also in Beauvoir's reception in Spain, Dr. Corbí Sáez has published to date around ten papers and edited a collective volume on Beauvoir.
Kathryn Sophia Belle (formerly Kathryn T. Gines) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University with primary research and teaching interest in Continental philosophy (especially Existentialism and Phenomenology), African American/Africana Philosophy, Black Feminist Philosophy, and Critical Philosophy of Race. She has also taught in African American Studies/African Diaspora Studies. Under the name Kathryn T. Gines she has published articles on race, assimilation, feminism, intersectionality, and sex and sexuality in contemporary hip-hop. She co-edited an anthology titled Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2010) and authored Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question (Indiana University Press, 2014).
Q aka Kyoo Lee, Prof. of Philosophy at CUNY, is a theorist and writer who works in the interwoven fields of the Arts and the Humanities. Her monograph, Reading Descartes Otherwise: Blind, Dreamy, Mad, and Bad, explores figures of otherness in Cartesian philosophy, and her chapbook, Writing Entanglish written entanglish, translates English into English. Q is working on a book on the Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, focusing on its queer translingual potentials.
Qrescent Mali Mason is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Berea College in Kentucky and earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Temple University in 2014 with a dissertation titled, “An Ethical Disposition toward the Erotic: The Early Autobiographical Writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Black Feminist Philosophy.” She has presented on Beauvoir at the APA, at Midwest SWIP, and at the International Simone de Beauvoir Society Conference. Her book chapter, “Intersectional Ambiguity and the Phenomenology of #BlackGirlJoy,” is forthcoming in Rethinking Feminist Phenomenology: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives and she is currently working on a book manuscript titled Intersectional Ambiguity: The Difference Difference Makes.
Veronica Zebadúa is a visiting lecturer in gender studies at Mount Holyoke College, and a doctoral candidate in politics at the New School for Social Research. Her dissertation deals with Arendt’s and Beauvoir’s concepts of freedom as lived experience through an interpretation of their biographical writings.
Meryl Altman, Secretary-Treasurer of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, teaches English and Women's Studies at DePauw University in Indiana.