Current Position
Course Director, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies, School of Analytic Studies & Information Technology, Philosophy Program, York University
Course Director, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, York University
Education
1993. Ph.D., Education, major concentration in Philosophy of Education, minor concentration in Women's Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT)
1987. M.A., Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
1985. B.A. (Cum Laude), Political Philosophy,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
(Thesis: The Co-Existence of Subjective and Objective Interests: An Examination
of Hegel's Philosophy of Right)
1984. General Course of Study, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Ph.D. Thesis
Recuperating Pleasure: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic of Reading supervised by Professor Deanne Bogdan, Department of History & Philosophy, OISE/University of Toronto.
Teaching Interests
AOS: Aesthetics, philosophy of literature, feminist philosophy, philosophy of education
AOC: Continental Philosophy (Existentialism, postmodernism and poststructuralism), ethics
Professional Activity
2002-2003 Committee on Professional
Affairs, Philosophy of Education Society (Chair – 2003)
Present-1997 Chair of Arts/Aesthetics
Education special interest group, Philosophy of Education Society
1999-2000 Jobs Committee, Philosophy of
Education Society
1998 Co-Chair of Alternative Program Committee,
Philosophy of Education Society
1997 Initiator of Arts/Aesthetics Education
special interest group, Philosophy of Education Society
1997 Resolutions Committee of the Philosophy
of Education Society
1996 Program Committee of the Philosophy
of Education Society
Presented Papers
"Reintegrating Sensibility: Embodied Reading and Feminist Pedagogy," (invited, refereed) presented with Prof. Deanne Bogdan. Biannual IGEL Conference (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature), Victoria University of the University of Toronto, July 31-August 4, 2000.
"‘They Like Me, They Really Like Me!’": Critically Examining My Desire to be Loved by My Students," Peer Reviewed. Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference. Toronto, ON, March 31-April 3, 2000.
"Politics, Aesthetics, and the Imagination: a conversation about Toni Morrison's Jazz," literary salon facilitated and organized with Maxine Greene. Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC, April 11-14, 1997.
"If Art is Good for the Soul Can Education Do Without Art?" (Invited Response to John Rethorst's "Art and Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Moral Education.") Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC, April 11-14, 1997.
"The Double Bind of ‘Double Duty.’" (Invited Response to Denise Egéa-Kuehne's "Neutrality in Education and Derrida's call for ‘Double Duty.’") Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference. Houston, TX, March 28 - April 1, 1996.
"Desire, Difference, and the Ethics of Engagement: Jane Campion's The Piano and Implications for Pedagogy," workshop presented with Prof. Deanne Bogdan and Prof. Judith Robertson, "Coalitions for Learning and Growth: An International Celebration of Language, Culture, and Communication," Ontario Council of Teachers of English, Communications, and Language Arts Conference, Toronto, ON, October 19, 1995.
"Trespassing Desires: Jane Campion's The Piano and the Struggle for a Responsible Pedagogy," panel presented with Prof. Deanne Bogdan, Prof. Judith Robertson, and Charlene Morton, Canadian Critical Pedagogy Association, Learned Societies Conference, Montreal, Quebec, June 1-3, 1995.
"Good Intentions Are Not Enough." (Invited Response to Kal Alston’s "Race Consciousness and the Philosophy of Education.") Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA, March 30-April 4, 1995.
"Comments on Deanne Bogdan's ‘Situating the Educated Imagination.’" "Sex, Difference, and Community: Burning Questions in Art, Theory, and Politics," 1994 Conference of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, University of Toronto, Oct. 14-16, 1994.
"Pleasure, Pain, and Ethical Responsibility: A Felt-Situated Reading of Menace II Society." 1) Eleventh Annual Bilingual Conference for the Canadian Society for Aesthetics, Learned Societies Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, June 6-9, 1994. 2) Peer Reviewed. Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference. Charlotte, NC, March 18-21, 1994. 3) OISE Public Lecture Series, February 28, 1994.
"Recuperating Pleasure: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic of Reading." Excerpt of thesis presented at OISE Critical Pedagogy/Cultural Studies Forum, Work-in-Progress Series, November 27, 1992.
"The Temptations and Limitations of a Feminist Deaesthetic." Ninth Annual Bilingual Conference for the Canadian Society for Aesthetics, Learned Societies Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, May 26-28, 1992.
"Reading as a ‘Woman’: Strategic Essentialism and the Empowerment of a Feminist Reader." Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference for Feminist Graduate Students at York and OISE, March 12-14, 1992.
"The Tyranny of Resistance: Or the Compulsion to be a ‘Good Feminist.’" Peer Reviewed. Philosophy of Education Society 50th Anniversary Conference, Washington, DC, March 1991.
Publications
Peer reviewed articles
Davis, Hilary E. (2001). "‘They Like Me, They Really Like Me!’": Critically Examining My Desire to be Loved by My Students," Philosophy of Education 2000, Lynda Stone (Ed.). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, University of Illinois. [annual yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society]
Bogdan, Deanne, E. James Cunningham, & Hilary E. Davis. (2000). "Reintegrating Sensibility: Reintegrating Sensibility: Situated Knowledges and Embodied Readers." New Literary History, 4 (31): 477-507. [co-author]
Bogdan, Deanne, Hilary E. Davis, & Judith Robertson. (1997). "Sweet Surrender: Jane Campion's The Piano and the Struggle for Responsible Pedagogy," Changing English, 4 (1): 81-103. [co-author]
Davis, Hilary E. (1996). "The Phenomenology of a Feminist Reader: Toward the Recuperation of Pleasure" Educational Theory, 46 (4): 473-499.
Davis, Hilary E. (1996). "Docile Bodies and Disembodied Minds," Educational Theory, 46 (4): 525-543. [book review essay of Changing the Educational Landscape: Philosophy, Women, and Curriculum, Jane Roland Martin and Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling, Linda K. Christian-Smith, Ed.]
Davis, Hilary E. (1994). "Pleasure, Pain, and Ethical Responsibility: A Felt-Situated Reading of Menace II Society." Philosophy of Education 1994: Proceedings of 50th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society, Michael S. Katz (Ed.). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, University of Illinois, 1995. [annual yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society]
Davis, Hilary E. (1993). "The Temptations and Limitations of a Feminist Deaesthetic." The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 27 (2): 99-105.
Davis, Hilary E. (1991). "The Tyranny of Resistance: Or the Compulsion to be a ‘Good Feminist.’"Philosophy of Education 1991: Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society , Margaret Buchmann and Robert E. Floden (Eds.). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, University of Illinois, 1992. [annual yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society]
Invited responses
Davis, Hilary E. (1998). "If Art is Good for the Soul Can Education Do Without Art?" Philosophy of Education 1997, Susan Laird (Ed.). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, University of Illinois. [annual yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society]
Davis, Hilary E. (1997). "The Double Bind of ‘Double Duty.’" Philosophy of Education 1996, Frank Margonis (Ed.). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, University of Illinois. [annual yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society, invited response to featured essay]
Davis, Hilary E. (1996). "Good Intentions Are Not Enough." Philosophy of Education 1995, Alven Neiman (Ed.). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, University of Illinois. [annual yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society]
Administrative Experience
2000-2001 Ethical Review Coordinator, Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, OISE/UT
Teaching Experience
Philosophy Program, SASIT, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies, York University
Course Director, Fall-Winter 2003-04, Summer 2003, Fall-Winter 2002-03, AK/MODR1730
Reasoning about Social Issues
Course Director, Winter 2003, AK/PHIL3125
Contemporary Existentialism
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, York University
Course Director, Winter 2004, AS/PHIL4140
Topics in Aesthetics: Art & Emotion
Course Director, Winter 2004, AS/PHIL2130
Philosophy of Art and Literature
Course Director, Fall 2003, Winter 2003, AS/PHIL2070
Introduction to Ethics
Course Director, Winter 2002, Winter 2001, Winter 2000, Fall 1998, AS/PHIL2120.3
Existentialism
Course Director, Winter 2002, Winter 1999, AS/PHIL3125
Contemporary Existentialism
Supervisor, Winter 2001, AS/PHIL4000
Independent Reading Course: Feminist and Critical Theories of Education
Course Director, Fall-Winter 2000-001, Fall-Winter 1999-2000, AS/PHIL3500.6
Philosophy and Feminism
Course Director, Fall 2000, Fall 1998, AS/PHIL3120.3
Early Existentialism
Course Director, Winter 2000, AS/PHIL2500.3
Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
Course Director, Winter 1998, AS/PHIL4240.3
Topics in Continental Philosophy: French Feminism
Course Director, Fall 1997, AS/PHIL4080.3
Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Emotions
Faculty of Education, York University
Course Director, Winter 2000, EDU/5685.03
Pedagogy and Social Difference
Course Director, Fall 1999, EDU/5671.03:
Race, Culture, and Schooling
Course Director, Summer 1999, EDU/5650.03:
Ethical Possibilities in Education
Course Director, Fall 1997, EDU/5669.03:
Critical Pedagogy
Division of Philosophy, Department of Theory
& Policy Studies, OISE/UT
Instructor, Winter 2002, Winter 2001, TPS1459:
Creativity and Education
Supervisor, Winter 2001, TPS1453:
Individual
Research and Reading Course in the Philosophy of Education
Instructor, Fall 2000, TPS1440:
An Introduction
to the Philosophy of Education
Instructor, Summer 1998 & Summer
1995. TPS1462:
Women, Literature,
and Education.
Instructor, Summer 1996, TPS1461:
Feminism(s),
Art, and Education.
Guest Lecturer, Oct. 19, 1999,
Feb. 23, 1998, Feb. 17 & March 31, 1997, Nov. 27, 1995, Nov. 14 &
Dec. 5, 1994, Dec. 6, 1993, Dec. 14, 1992.
TPS1440:
An Introduction
to Philosophy of Education.
Guest Lecturer, September 15
& 22, 1997. TPS3417:
Research Seminar
in Feminist Criticism, Aesthetics, & Pedagogy
Field Assistant to Prof. Deanne Bogdan & Guest Lecturer, Spring
1997. TPS1485:
Literature and Values in Education
Field Assistant to Prof. Deanne Bogdan
& Guest Lecturer, Spring 1995. TPS1461:
The Literary
Canon and Cultural Pluralism for Democratic Education.
Guest Lecturer, October 26, 1994,
Nov. 16, 1994. TPS1484:
Philosophy of Literature
and Literature Education.
Guest Lecturer, Feb. 23, 1999,
Feb. 13, 1996, Feb. 9, 1994. TPS3436:
Aesthetics and Education.
Guest Lecturer, November 23, 1993.
TPS1485:
Literature and Values
Education.
Field Assistant to Prof. Deanne
Bogdan and Guest Lecturer, Spring 1993. TPS1462:
Women, Literature,
and Education.
Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning,
OISE/UT
Instructor, Summers 1999 & 1997, CTL1304:
Feminism(s), Art, and Education
Guest Lecturer, Nov. 10, 1999 Sept. 17 & 24, 1997, Nov. 15, 1995.
CTL1101:
Arts and Education
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Teaching Assistant, Fall 1985, Summer 1986, Fall 1986, Spring 1987. PHL 243:
Philosophy of Human Sexuality.
Teaching Assistant, Spring 1986. PHL 267:
Feminist Philosophy.
Additional Research Experience
Department of History & Philosophy, OISE/UT
Preparation of index to the musical references in the early correspondence between Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939 for Professor Deanne Bogdan, Summer 1997.
Preparation of Professor Deanne Bogdan's monograph "Re-Educating the Imagination: Toward a Poetics, Politics, and Pedagogy of Literary Engagement," Fall 1990 - Spring 1992.
Preparation of Professor Deanne Bogdan's monograph "Women Writing across Boarders: The Constructed and Constructive Nature of Woman's Self as Reader and Writer," Fall 1989 - Spring 1990.Hilary E. Davis home