Anna Boessenkool
Anna Boessenkool
Contact
Stokes N320D
Email: boessenk@bc.edu
Education
- B.A. with distinction, The King's University
- M.A., Boston College
Courses
Philosophy of the Person I and II
Logic
Practical Logic
Research Interests
Feminist Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Phenomenology
20th and 21st Century French Philosophy
Department
Biography
Anna Dorothea Boessenkool is a fourth year doctoral student working under Richard Kearney, her research focused upon 20th century philosophy, particularly French philosophy, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis: she works on Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Klein, Beauvoir, and their contemporaries. Her most recent research projects concern the body as a matter of phenomenological and psychoanalytic investigation, as well as the influence of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis upon 20th century philosophy. She is also interested in medieval philosophy, most particularly women's mystical writings, and their enduring legacy in continental philosophy, as well as their relevance to philosophical investigations of the body and sexual difference. Broader research areas include the philosophy of film and feminist philosophy. She has taught Philosophy of the Person for two years, the syllabus of which drew from ancient to contemporary philosophy, highlighting the works of Christine de Pizan, Simone Beauvoir, and Mari Ruti. She is currently teaching symbolic logic.
Presentations
“On Adolescent Women and Their Bodies in Cases of Anorexia Nervosa: A Psychoanalytic Account.” Masochism, Self-Injury, and The Death Drive: Lacanian Accounts of Self-Harm in Philosophy, Film, and Clinical Contexts, Psychology & the Other Conference, October 2023.
“The Body and Value.” Stony Brook University and Boston College Joint Conference on Phenomenology and Value, September 2023.
“Melanie Klein.” PhilosopHERS Workshop Series, Boston College Philosophy Department, April 2023.
Invited respondent to Lauren Guilmette’s “Something in the Atmosphere: Theorizing Transpersonal Structures of Feeling.” Phenomenological Approaches to the Emotions, The Boston Phenomenology Circle Symposium, April 2023.
“Reading Women Mystics: Situating Sex in Christian Thought.” New Research in Philosophy and Theology, ACU and Boston College Joint Conference at ACU Rome Campus, October 2022.
Respondent to Crina Gschwandtner, “Distinguishing the Wesen of Beings: Phenomenological Method in Hedwig Conrad-Martius.” Margins of Phenomenology, The Boston Phenomenology Circle Symposium, April 2022.
“Christine de Pizan: Teaching Early Feminist Texts.” PhilosopHERS Workshop Series, Boston College Philosophy Department, February 2022.
“Expression and the Interpretive Horizon: The Phenomenological Encounter with the Other.” God and Politics: Religion and Public Life in the 21st Century, Institute for Christian Studies Undergraduate Workshop, May 2019.
Awards
Departmental Distinction, Qualifying Paper Exam, 2023
Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award 2022
Departmental Distinction, First Year Comprehensive Exam 2021
The King’s University Academic Gold Medal Award 2019