ALEXANDRA B.
GUSTAFSON
University of Toronto | a.gustafson@mail.utoronto.ca
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Ethics, Philosophy of Emotions
AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Aesthetics, Logic, Philosophy of Disability
EDUCATION
PhD Candidate in Philosophy, University of Toronto Expected 2023
Dissertation: The Phenomenology of Love
Committee: Owen Ware (Chair), Thomas Hurka, Brendan de Kenessey
MA in Philosophy, Brandeis University 2018
Thesis: “Love Alters Not”: A Study of Unrequited Love
Advisor: Berislav Marušić
BA in Philosophy with Honors, The College of Wooster 2016
Minor in English
PUBLICATIONS
Papers
“The Forgotten Phenomenology of Love” (Under Review)
Public Philosophy
“Why it can be sublime to love someone who doesn't love you back”, Aeon+Psyche, February 9, 2022
Blog Posts
“Embracing Emotion: The Philosophy PhD and BPD”, Academic Voices, February 11, 2022
“The Mental Health & Disability Caucus”, Blog of the APA, August 5, 2021
Book Reviews
Review of Virtue and Emotion by Gopal Sreenivasan, Princeton University Press (Forthcoming)
AWARDS & HONOURS
Service Award, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto $1,000 2021
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC $105,000 2020-2023
TA Teaching Excellence Award Nominee, University of Toronto 2020
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto $15,000 2019-2020
Balzan Award, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto $7,700 2018
Faculty of Arts & Science Top Doctoral Award, University of Toronto $60,000 2018-2020
Graduate School of Arts and Science Grant, Brandeis University $20,000 2016-2018
Eleanor J. Pope Prize for leadership, The College of Wooster 2016
Ronald E. Hustwit Prize in Philosophy, The College of Wooster 2016
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Henry J. Copeland Research Grant, The College of Wooster 2015
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
As Essay Clinician
University of Toronto
Philosophy Essay Clinic (St George Campus) Spring 2022
As Teaching Assistant
University of Toronto (*Online due to Covid-19)
PHL367H5 F Issues in Philosophy and Feminism* Fall 2021
PHLB99H3 F Philosophical Writing and Methodology* Fall 2021
PHL243H1 S Philosophy of Human Sexuality* Spring 2021
PHL246H1 F Probability and Inductive Logic* Fall 2020
PHL388H1 F Literature and Philosophy Summer 2020
PHL101Y1 Y Introduction to Philosophy Year 2019 - 2020
PHL103H5 S Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality Spring 2019
PHL242H5 F Philosophy and Science Fiction Fall 2018
Harvard University
PHL S-4 Introduction to Philosophy Summer 2017
Brandeis University
PHL 106b Mathematical Logic Spring 2018
PHL 113b Aesthetics: Painting Photography and Film Spring 2018
PHL 6a Introduction to Symbolic Logic Fall 2017
PHL1a Introduction to Philosophy Spring 2017
PHL1a Introduction to Philosophy Fall 2016
The College of Wooster
PHIL 22000 Logic & Philosophy Spring 2015
Guest Lectures
“On Love”, Guest lecture for PHL334H1 F: Philosophy of Emotions, University of Toronto, Oct. 31, 2019
PRESENTATIONS (*Originally postponed due to Covid-19)
Refereed
“The Role of Poetry in Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism”, NASS 7, May 23-25, 2022*
“The Forgotten Phenomenology of Love”, Logic and Love Workshop, UNILOG’2022, Apr. 6-11, 2022
“The Mental Health & Disability Caucus”, APA Central Division meeting, Feb. 23-26, 2022
“‘Love Alters Not’: A Study of Unrequited Love”, CPA annual meeting, June 1-4, 2019
“‘Love Alters Not’: A Study of Unrequited Love”, Emotion Workshop , CUNY, May 3, 2019
“Edgington’s DW & HW Counterfactual Conditionals”, 2017 MCMP Summer School on Mathematical
Philosophy for Female Students, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Aug. 5, 2017
Invited
“The Phenomenology of Love”, Philosophy Roundtable, The College of Wooster, Sep. 17, 2020
“‘Love Alters Not’: A Study of Unrequited Love”, Philosophy Roundtable, The College of Wooster, Apr. 5,
2018
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Comments
Eskil Elling’s “Montaigne and the Problem of Skeptical Subjectivity”, The Department of Philosophy’s
Graduate Research Weekend, University of Toronto, Nov. 16, 2019
Robert Stern’s “The Radical Demand in Løgstrup’s Ethics”, The Department of Philosophy’s Robert Stern
workshop, University of Toronto, Sep. 20, 2019
Geoffrey Weiss’s “Filling in the Gaps in Fricker’s Relativism of Blame Thesis”, Centre for Ethics (C4E)
Graduate Conference, University of Toronto, May 4, 2019
Julie Kirsch’s “Misinterpreting our Memories and Emotions”, The Department of Philosophy’s Graduate
Research Weekend, University of Toronto, Mar. 23, 2019
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
As Research Assistant
University of Toronto
to Martin Pickavé, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Medieval 2020-2021
Philosophy; Chair of the Department of Philosophy (Topic: Friendship)
Brandeis University
to Jennifer Marušić, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Topic: Math Logic) Summer 2018
to Jennifer Marušić, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Topic: Early Modern) Summer 2018
SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS
Member, Focus Group for Division 1 (Humanities), Healthy Labs Recognition Program 2022
School of Graduate Studies, Toronto
Co-Founder, Mental Health & Disability Network 2021
President, Graduate Philosophy Student Union (GPSU), University of Toronto 2021-2022
Commentator-at-large, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, UTM 2021
Member, Cultures of Care Network Pilot Program, Faculty of Arts & Science, Toronto 2021
Member, Mental Health Advisory Committee, School of Graduate Studies, Toronto 2021-2023
Co-Chair, Mental Health & Disability Caucus (MH&D), GPSU, Toronto 2020-2021
Co-Founder, Mental Health & Disability Caucus (MH&D), GPSU, Toronto 2020
Orientation Organizer, GPSU, Toronto 2020
Judge, Ontario High School Ethics Bowl, UTM 2020, 2021
Balzan Styles of Reasoning Graduate Fellow, Toronto 2018-2019
Graduate Associate, Centre for Ethics (C4E), Toronto 2018-2019
MCMP Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students 2017
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Graduate Student Representative for the Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University 2017-2018
Colorado Summer Seminar in Philosophy: “Matters of Life & Death” 2015
The University of Colorado, Boulder
Student Representative for the Department of Philosophy, The College of Wooster 2015-2016
Review Board, Sapere Aude: The Wooster Journal of Philosophical Inquiry 2015-2016
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REFERENCES
Owen Ware, University of Toronto Brendan de Kenessey, University of Toronto
Associate Professor of Philosophy Assistant Professor of Philosophy
owen.ware@utoronto.ca brendan.dekenessey@utoronto.ca
Thomas Hurka, University of Toronto James John, University of Toronto
University Professor and Jackman Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Distinguished Chair in Philosophical Studies jim.john@utoronto.ca
tom.hurka@utoronto.ca
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