BRITTANY W. LECKEY Texas A&M University Department of Philosophy 4237 TAMU College Station, TX 77843 4237 bleckey@tamu.edu EDUCATION 2016 Ph.D. Texas A&M University, Philosophy (Defended Oct. 14, 2016) Dissertation: Director: Committee: Irritatingly Incomplete: The Ontologically Reconsidered Filmic Image Professor Theodore George Professors John J. McDermott, Kristi Sweet, and Terence Hoagwood 2015 M.A. Texas A&M University, English Literature Thesis: Director: Complicitous Critique in Classical Cinema Professor Terence Hoagwood 2015 Texas A&M University, Graduate Certificate in Film Studies 2010 M.A. Duquesne University, Philosophy 2006 B.A. Drury University, Philosophy Minor: Global Studies AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Aesthetics, Philosophy of Film, Continental European Philosophy Since Kant AREAS OF COMPETENCE Ethics, History of Philosophy; within the discipline of English: Film Theory, 21 st Century British and American Literature
Brittany W. Leckey 2 PUBLICATIONS Capra s the Matter with Capra: Sullivan s Travels as Narrative and Textual Complicitous Critique. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2016.1222570. In Preparation Finding Dialogue Within The Culture Industry: Mediating the Tension Between Expert and Amateur Viewership via Christopher Nolan s Inception Beyond the Fiery Orchids: The Ontological Ramifications of Benjamin s Considerations of Film Irritatingly Incomplete: The Ontological Status of the Image After Film Film as Auteur: The Limitations of Adaptation and Authorship through Kubrick But I Just Want to Relax: Idleness and a Responsibility of Ethical Film Viewership Auratic Irreverence: The Coen Brothers as Complicitious Critique GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS 2016 17 Graduate Research Fellowship (dissertation fellowship), Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University 2016 Summertime Advancement for Research Award, Dissertation Track, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University 2011 15 Graduate Merit Fellowship, Texas A&M University 2002-06 Trustee Academic Scholarship, Drury University 2002-04 Academic All-American, Swimming, Drury University ARCHIVAL RESEARCH 2016 The Stanley Kubrick Archive, University of the Arts, London, UK, July 25-29
Brittany W. Leckey 3 PRESENTATIONS 2016 Ivory Towers and Fandoms: Exploring the Tension Between Experts and Amateurs in Film Viewership Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Texas A&M University, May 19-21. (invited for presentation) 2016 Seeking Cinephilia Within The Culture Industry: Expanding Active Film Viewership through Christopher Nolan s Inception North Texas Philosophical Association, El Centro Community College, April 1-2. 2014 Laughter in the Filmic Image: Benjamin, F. W. Murnau, and the Active Viewer Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Colorado College, June 6-8. (invited for presentation). 2010 The Unbearable Lightness of the Eternal Return: A Deleuzian Re-Reading of Kundera s Use of the Eternal Return in The Unbearable Lightness of Being Graduate Students in Philosophy Colloquia, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA: December 7. 2009 Text Time: The Orality and Literacy of Text Messaging via Husserlian Retention Duquesne University Philosophy of Time Graduate Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA: November 21. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Conference Organization 2016 17 Executive Committee, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, September 29 October 1, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 2013 Organizing Committee, Poetics Versus Philosophy Symposium, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 2014 Co-coordinator, Graduate Students in Philosophy Annual Colloquium Series, November 13 14, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas University Service 2012 Co-founder, Organization for Graduate Students in Philosophy at Texas A&M University 2010 12 Administrator, Duquesne Women in Philosophy, Duquesne University 2010-11 Student Faculty Representative, Duquesne Graduate Students in Philosophy, Duquesne University
Brittany W. Leckey 4 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2013 17 Instructor of Record, Texas A&M University, Department of Philosophy. Courses designed and taught include: Philosophy of Visual Media: Fall 2016 Philosophy of Visual Media (FOCUS Program for first year/first generation students): Fall 2015 Introduction to Philosophy: Spring 2015, Spring 2016 (two sections) Contemporary Moral Issues: Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013 2015 Pedagogy Research Seminar with John McDermott, Fall 2015 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University, Department of Philosophy. Training included: Teaching Assistant, Contemporary Moral Issues: Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant and Exam Writer, Ethics and Engineering: Spring 2012 2011 Teaching Assistant, Duquesne University, Department of Philosophy. Basic Philosophical Questions: Spring 2011 Guest Lectures and Further Teaching 2013 David Foster Wallace and Everyday Existential Authenticity, invited guest lecturer, Contemporary Moral Issues, September 22, Texas A&M University, Instructor: Matthew Wester 2012 Précis on Derrida s Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences Continental Philosophy Study Group, Texas A&M University, November 7. (invited for presentation) 2012 Kierkegaard and Boredom, invited guest lecturer, Introduction to Philosophy, November 7, Texas A&M University, Instructor: David Wright
Brittany W. Leckey 5 LANGUAGE French, reading and translation proficiency. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Philosophical Association Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy American Society for Aesthetics Society for Cinema and Media Studies REFERENCES Dr. Theodore George, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, t-george@tamu.edu. Dr. John J McDermott, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, mcdermott@tamu.edu. Dr. Kristi Sweet, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, k-sweet@tamu.edu. Dr. Terence Hoagwood, Ph.D., Professor, English Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, t-hoagwood@tamu.edu. Dr. Fred Evans, Ph.D., Professor, Philosophy Department, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, evansf@duq.edu.