Anna Gotlib
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Location: 3307 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3217
Fax: 718.951.4675
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Anna Gotlib is an associate professor of philosophy and a collegiate adviser for those students interested in law and law-related careers. Before joining the faculty at Brooklyn College, she was an assistant professor of philosophy and director of the Pell Honors Program at Binghamton University (SUNY). Prior to her academic career, she was employed as an attorney, specializing in international law and labor law.
Education:
Ph.D., Michigan State University - 2007 (Philosophy (with a specialization in Bioethics))
M.A., University of Michigan - 2002 (Philosophy)
J.D., Cornell Law School - 1997 (International Law)
Areas of Expertise:
Gotlib's areas of research and teaching include bioethics/medical ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of law and feminist philosophy. Her recent research is in the areas of illness and marginalization, feminist bioethics, moral psychology (especially memory and identity), and trauma theory.
Books and Publications
"Synecdochical Migrants, Master Narratives, and Moral Luck," Forced Migration And Health Justice, Eckenwiler, Gotlib, Berlinger, Chung, Wild, Zion, eds., Oxford University Press, (forthcoming 2024). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2024
"When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be: Migration as Narrative Self-Estrangement," Moral Psychology of Fear, Ami Harbin, ed., Rowman & Littlefield (forthcoming 2024). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2024
Forced Migration And Health Justice, Oxford University Press, Eckenwiler, Gotlib, Berlinger, Chung, Wild, Zion, eds., (forthcoming 2024). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2024
"The Smile of Claudia Gator: Magnolia, Aimee Mann, and Forgiveness," Music and Trauma, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, ed., University of Michigan Press, (forthcoming 2023). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023
"Explosion Principle." Journal of Medical Humanities (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-022-09739-0 (Books and Publications: Other) 2022
"Fractured Epistemologies: Bioethics Pedagogy Meets Science Denialism" (with Ruth Groenhout), Teaching Philosophy 45.4 (2022): 447-476. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
"I Remember Damage: Inescapable Scars, Scarring Escapes, and Living with the Absurd." Philosophie.ch.
8 March, 2022. https://www.philosophie.ch/en/philosophy/articles/2022/gotlib-2022-03-08 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
"Lupins." Journal of the Plague Years, September 30, 2022. (Books and Publications: Other) 2022
"Nostalgia as a Weapon," Culturico, September 19, 2022. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
"Refusing to be Othered: Re-defining the 'Silent Bodies' of Childfree Women," in Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on NOT Choosing Children, Ed. Davinia Thornley, Rutgers University Press, 2022. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2022
"Why Everything is Awful and Nothing is Surprising." Journal of the Plague Years. https://www.journaloftheplagueyears.ink/ 2022. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Responses to a Pandemic: Philosophical and Political Reflections on COVID-19, Rowman & Littlefield International, Anna Gotlib, ed. (forthcoming 2022). (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2022
Responses to a Pandemic: Philosophical and Political Reflections on COVID-19, Rowman & Littlefield International, Anna Gotlib, ed., 2022. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2022
"Letting Go of Familiar Narratives as Tragic Optimism in the Era of COVID-19," The Journal of Medical Humanities, 1-21. 23 Feb. 2021, doi:10.1007/s10912-021-09680-8 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
"Power, Identity, and Liminality in an American Hospital," Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World, Eds. Elizabeth Victor and Laura Guidry-Grimes, Springer, (forthcoming 2021) (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
"Refusing to be Othered: Re-defining the 'Silent Bodies' of Childfree Women," in Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on NOT Choosing Children, Ed. Davinia Thornley, Rutgers University Press, (forthcoming 2021). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
"The Smile of Claudia Gator: Magnolia, Aimee Mann, and Forgiveness" accepted for Music and Trauma volume (University of Michigan Press). (Books and Publications: Abstract) 2021
"Trauma unmakes the world of the self. Can stories repair it?" Aeon/Psyche, November 23, 2020. https://psyche.co/ideas/trauma-unmakes-the-world-of-the-self-can-stories-repair-it (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
"Commentary on 'Neurotechnologies, Relational Autonomy, and Authenticity'" IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, vol. 13 no. 1, 2020, p. 120-128. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
"Surviving and Getting Your Life Back Are Two Different Things": COVID-19, ICU Psychosis, and the Coming Mental Health Crisis," APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 20 (1) 2020: 28-32. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
"When Progress Goes Wrong: (Bio)technology, Identity, and the Other", Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, Shannon Vallor (ed.) Oxford University Press, November 2020
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190851187.013.1 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
When Progress Goes Wrong: (Bio)technology, Identity, and the Other, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, Shannon Vallor (ed.) Oxford University Press, 2020, (forthcoming) (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2020
"I Am Not Your Canvas: Memory, Liminality, and the (Re)claiming of Refugee Voices," Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship, Oliver, Kelly; Madura, Lisa M. & Ahmed, Sabeen (eds.) Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
"Refugee," (2019). Journal of Medical Humanities. 10.1007/s10912-019-09569-7. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
The Moral Psychology of Regret, Rowman & Littlefield International, Anna Gotlib, ed., 2019. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2019
"Wanting to Want: Constructing the Ambivalent Childless Self," Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood? (Natalie Sappleton, editor), Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
"Memory, Sadness and Longing: Exile Nostalgias as Attunement to Loss," The Moral Psychology of Sadness, Rowman & Littlefield International, Anna Gotlib, ed., 2017. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
"Refugees, Narratives, or How to Do Bad Things with Words" The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, June 2017. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
The Moral Psychology of Sadness, Rowman & Littlefield International, Anna Gotlib, ed., 2017. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2017
"'But You Would Be The Best Mother': Unwomen, Counterstories, and the Motherhood Mandate,"Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, January 2016, DOI 10.1007/s11673-016-9699-z (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
"Feminist Ethics and Narrative Ethics," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ISSN 2161- 0002,http://www.iep.utm.edu/July 2015. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Review of Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities, by Hilde Lindemann, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, https://kiej.georgetown.edu/book-reviews/archive/lindemann-2014/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
"Beyond the Trolley Problem: Narrative Pedagogy in the Philosophy Classroom." Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
"Bioethics and the Law." Encyclopedia of Human Biology, 3rd ed. Elsevier. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
"Girl, Pixelated: Narrative Identity, Virtual Embodiment, and Second Life." Humana Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26, May: 153-78. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
"Intergenerational Justice and Health Care: A Case for Interdependence." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
"Subjectivity." Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 4th ed. Macmillan Reference. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
"Customary Laws and Their Impact on Women." The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. 2nd ed., volumes 1-4. Eds. Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster and Jane E. Sloan. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, Inc. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
"The Other Side of Care: Some Thoughts on Care-Giving and Grief." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Fall, 6.2: 179-84. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"On the Borderlands: Chronic Pain as Crisis of Identity." Dimensions of Pain Routledge. 41-59. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2012
"Gender Stereotypes in the Multiverse." The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Sage Press. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"Women and Information Technology." The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Sage Press. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"Bad Mothers." Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Ed. Andrea O'Reilly. Sage Publications, Inc. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Maternal Bodies." Encyclopedia of Motherhood, first edition. Ed. Andrea O'Reilly. Sage Publications, Inc. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Of Bodies and Selves: Toward a Bioethics of Embodiment" bibliographic essay. Hypatia, Summer, 25.3: 624-31. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
"Stories From the Margins: Immigrant Patients, Health Care, and Narrative Medicine." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2.2, October: 51-74. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Creative Work
"Explosion Principle." Journal of Medical Humanities (2022). 2022
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Award for Student Mentorship, Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities and Social Sciences Dean's Office, Brooklyn College CUNY, 2022 (Awards and Honors) 2022
Fulbright Specialist Grant, University of Iceland, Iceland. (Grants and Fellowships) 2022
Recipient of the 2022 Claire Tow '52 Awards for Excellence in Teaching. (Awards and Honors) 2022
Fulbright Specialist, University of Iceland (2019-2020) (Grants and Fellowships) 2019
Medical Humanities Working Group Grant, Brooklyn College, 2013-15. (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, Brooklyn College, 2013-14 academic year. (Awards and Honors) 2013
Stewart Travel Award, CUNY. (Awards and Honors) 2012
Travel grant, for "Feminist Approaches to Bioethics." (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
TBA, Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan, March 29, 2024. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2024
"Existentialism," Philosophy Department, Brooklyn College, March 21, 2023. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2023
"Illness as Disorientation: Why Narratives Should Not Try To Put Us Back Together," Keynote, The Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society, Stories of Illness and Health: Limits and Opportunities of a Narrative Medical Ethics University of Antwerp, Belgium, July 5, 2023. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2023
"Narrative Bioethics and the Stories that Shape It," The Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society Stories of Illness and Health: Limits and Opportunities of a Narrative Medical Ethics, University Antwerp, Belgium, July 6, 2023. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2023
"Responses to a Pandemic: Philosophical and Political Reflections: A panel discussion," Brooklyn College, City University of New York, April 25, 2023. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2023
"Stories that Heal, Stories that Wound: Feminist Perspectives on Moral Distress," Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 14, 2023. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2023
"What Do We Mean When We Talk About 'Narrative Ethics'?" The Antwerp Summer School in Philosophy and Society, Stories of Illness and Health: Limits and Opportunities of a Narrative Medical Ethics, University Antwerp, Belgium, July 6, 2023. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2023
"The thing I came for": Feminist bioethics and topographies of disorientation," Plenary, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB)/16th World Congress of Bioethics, Basel, Switzerland, 18-22 July, 2022. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
"'The Thing I Came For': Feminist Bioethics and Topographies of Disorientation," Plenary, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB)/16th World Congress of Bioethics, Basel, Switzerland, July 18-22, 2022. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
"Are Journal Editors the 'Engineers of the Human Soul'?", 16th World Congress of Bioethics, The Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland, July 20-22, 2022. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
"Publishing Controversies," 16th World Congress of Bioethics, The Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland, July 20-22, 2022. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
"Trauma Out Loud: Bioethics as Public Philosophy," Canadian Society of Practical Ethics (CSSPE) Webinar Series, March 27, 2022. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
"Using Our Outside Voices," 2022 APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 23-26, 2022. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
"Why I Fear Your 'Normal': Vulnerable Populations in the Pandemic, and After," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2022 Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October 26-29, 2022. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
"Why Medical Humanities Should be the Pippi Longstocking of Medicine," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2022 Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October 26-29, 2022. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
"Fractured Epistemologies: A Bioethicist (Re)considers the COVID-19 Pandemic," Ethics Grand Rounds, Horizon Health Network in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, December 14th, 2021. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
"Memories of Dark Things: A Case for Not Forgetting Trauma," William Paterson University Colloquium (virtual), March 11, 2021. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
"The Past is Not Behind Us: Medical Humanities, Marginalized Populations, and the (Dis)Repair of Trust," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2021 Annual Meeting, October 11-16, 2021. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
"The Smile of Claudia Gator: Magnolia, Aimee Mann, and Forgiveness," Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference (virtual), February 12-14, 2021. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Engaged Philosophy, Interview, November 2020. https://www.engagedphilosophy.com/interviews/ (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2021
Hess Scholar "Disruptive Pedagogies" Panel, Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College CUNY October 25, 2021. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Hess Scholar "The New Nativism" Panel, Ethyle R.Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College CUNY October 28, 2021. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
"Contested Liberties: The Anti-Vax/Anti-Science Movement's Rejection of Public Health," APA Committee for Philosophy and Medicine, 2020 APA Central Division meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 26-29, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
"How to deliver SDG 16.9- Digital Identity (DID) to all by 2030?" Department of Economic and Social Affairs and Sustainable Development, 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA75) (virtual) meeting, New York, September 28, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Is Anxiety Good for Us?" Author-meets-Critics session, 2020 APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 26-29, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Is My Anxiety the Right Kind? The Role of (Negative) Emotions in Human Flourishing," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2020 Annual Meeting, October 12-18, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
"Memories of Dark Things: A Case Against Fictionalizing Who We Are," University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, January 17, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Off-Clock as Off-Modern: The Arctic Night as Subversion of Modern Narratives," Darkness, Nuuk, Greenland, November 30-December 3, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
"Pluralism and Pandemics: At the Boundaries of Choice," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2020 Annual Meeting, October 12-18, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
"Scholarship as Solidarity: The Feminist Bioethicist as (Reluctant) Public Intellectual," World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, June 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
"There Are No Stories Here: Trauma, Identity, and Liminality in an (American) Hospital," University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, January 26, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Demanding Resilience After Trauma: An Analysis of Moral Failure," The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2019 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA., October 24-27, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
"The Patient As Liminal Knower: Power(lessness) and Consent in an American Hospital", Consent and Truth-Telling / Consentement et Vérité, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, May 10, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
"Wanting to Want: Childlessness and the Narratives of Ambivalence," International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Rome, Italy, 21st-26th July, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
"Fearful Contingencies: A Few Thoughts on Losing and Finding Narratives," Themes from Lindemann ("Hildefest"), Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan, April 21, 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Why Professionals Must Be Narrativists: Interdisciplinarity as a Radical Act," Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, July 5-7, 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Bioethics at the Margins: Re-centering Practitioners, De-marginalizing Practices," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2017 Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, October 19-22, 2017. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"Memory, Sadness and Longing: Exile Nostalgias as Attunement to Loss"? Working Papers in Ethics and Moral Psychology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, March 28, 2017. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Troubled Discourse and Moral Hazards: Memory, Trauma and Violence" (with Brenda Foley and Stephanie Jensen-Moulton), Annual Faculty Day Conference, Brooklyn College CUNY, May 24, 2017. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
How to do Bad Things with Words Night of Philosophy & Ideas , sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, January 28, 2017 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"De-marginalizing Patient Voices as Reclaiming Personhood: Making Cultural Literacy a Health Care Priority," 13th World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 13th-15th, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"From Where I Stand: Critical Distance in Bioethics as Choice and as Circumstance" (3-paper panel presentation with Alison Reiheld and Saba Fatima)American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2016 Annual Meeting.Washington, D.C. October 6-9, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Hegemonic Pronatalism and Other Disasters: Biopower and the Regulation of Women?s Bodies in Russia," National Women's Studies Association Conference, Montréal, Québec. November 10 ? 13, 2016.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Human Enhancement: How Perfect is Too Perfect?" The Society of Bioethics and Medicine, Brooklyn College CUNY, March 17, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"In Praise of Falling Down: Moral Failure, Moral Regret, and Manual Hygiene in Bioethics"(3-paper panel presentation with Hilde Lindeman and Jamie Nelson), American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. October 6-9, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Memory and Nostalgia," Memory and Memorialization: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, TU Delft, The Netherlands, November 17, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"Seeking a Common Language in the Medico-Industrial Complex: Cinemeducation, Cognitive Change, and Otherness," National Women's Studies Association Conference, Montréal, Québec. November 10 ? 13, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"The Lucky, the Unlucky, and the Other: Modern Migrations, Public Discourse, or How To Do Bad Things with Words," 33rd International Social Philosophy Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 21-23, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"The Sick Man of Europe?: Women?s Healthcare Regulation as Surrogate for Russia?s Public Health Disaster," 13th World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 13th-15th, 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"(Non)Maternal Desires: Bad Mothers, Nonmothers, and Other (Counter)stories," Colloquium, Department of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 26, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"(Non)Maternal Desires: Bad Mothers, Nonmothers, and Other Unwomen," National Women's Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 12th - 15th, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"A Voice of One's Own: Reflective Teaching, Bioethics, and the Underprivileged Student," International Social Philosophy Conference (NASSP), William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, July 16-18, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Bad Patients, Liminal Selves: How Not To Talk About Chronic Pain," The Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, June 10th, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Bringing Medical Humanities to Brooklyn College: A Work in Progress," The 19th Annual Faculty Day Conference, Brooklyn College CUNY, May 20, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2015
"Broken Identities, Uncertain Longings: Nostalgia as a Moral Emotion," CUNY Junior Philosophy Faculty Group, Graduate Center CUNY, May 6th, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Broken Identities, Uncertain Longings: Nostalgia as a Moral Emotion," Philosophy Department Colloquium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, April 23rd, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Broken Stories: Memory, Identity, Nostalgia: An Overview of the Project," Whiting Seminar, Brooklyn College CUNY, May 7th, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Death, Dying, Euthanasia, and Physician-Assisted Suicide," The American Medical Student Association, Brooklyn College CUNY, May 7th, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"More Than Words: The Ethics of Medical Interpreting," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 2015 Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 24th, 2015 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Invited panelist, ?Tom Digby?s Love and War: How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Gender (a conversation with the author),? International Social Philosophy Conference (NASSP), WilliamJewell College, Liberty, Missouri, July 16-18, 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"'But You Would Be the Best Mother': Unwomen, Counterstories, and the Motherhood Mandate." FAB Affinity Group Meeting, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 16th Annual Meeting. San Diego, Oct. 16-19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Memory Holes: Unrestricted Self-Authorship, Memory Manipulation, and the Law," Brooklyn Public Philosophers Lecture Series, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York, November 24th, 2014. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"The Many Harms of Professional Exclusion: Bioethics, Identity, and Power Within Philosophy Departments." American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 16th Annual Meeting. San Diego, Oct. 16-19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"The Revolution That Wasn‟t: International Intervention and Women‟s Health in Post-Soviet Russia." 12th World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Mexico City, June 23-25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Why Our Stories Matter: Identity, Memory, and Nostalgia." The Lyceum Lectures. Binghamton, N.Y., Feb. 27; March 6, 13 and 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Paternalistic Individualism and Other Contradictions: The Strange New World of Post-Soviet Clinical Trials." American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 15th Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Oct. 24-27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Girl, Pixelated: Identity, Virtual Embodiment, and Second Life." Gender, Bodies & Technology:
(Dis)Integrating Frames. Roanoke, Va., April 26-28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Intergenerational Justice and Health Care: A Case for Interdependence." 11th World Congress of Bioethics and International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 25-27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Representing the Silence: Poetry on the Other Side of Illness." American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., Oct. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Commentary on "Memory and Memorialization: What‟s Morality Got to Do With Them?" (Jeffrey
Blustein). Liebson Colloquium. Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2012
Gotlib, Anna, Sheldon Krimsky and Christine Vitrano. "HeLa's Troubled Legacy: Medicine, Ethics and Other Puzzles of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." The Liebson Colloquium. Brooklyn College. Nov. 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Art, Music, and Health." The Lyceum Lectures. Binghamton, N.Y., April 5 and 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Chronic Pain: Private Suffering, Clinical Dilemmas." Medicine in Action: A Bio-Ethics Speaker Series. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Edwardsville, Ill., Dec. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Medical Education and Medical Migrations: Burning the Candle at Both Ends." American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Transformations of the Self: Emerging Technologies and The Ethics of Memory Modification." American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Oct. 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
Professional Leadership
Calgary Journal, Interview, "Childfree women and the motherhood mandate," March 10, 2023. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2023
Clinical Ethics, special issue editor (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2023
CUNY IRB, member, 2020-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2023
ELLE Magazine (Spain), Interview, "Toxic positivity and "tragic optimism,'" March 8, 2023.
(Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2023
FAB: International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Co-coordinator, 2020-present (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2023
Faculty mentor, Philosophy Society (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2023
IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics), Editor, 2018-2022; Editor-in-chief, 2022-present (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2023
BA/MD admissions interviewer (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
CUNY IRB, member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
Developer of the Philosophy and Medical Ethics major at Brooklyn College CUNY (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2021
Honors Academy Reading Day, Reader (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
Philosophy Department Appointments committee, member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
Philosophy Department Curriculum Committee, Member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
Brooklyn Public Philosophers 2014-present (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2020
CUNY IRB, member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2020
Philosophy Department Appointments committee, member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2020
Philosophy Department Curriculum Committee, Member (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2020
IJFAB (International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics) Editor, 2018-present (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
Collegiate adviser, pre-law, Brooklyn College, 2014-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014
Member, advisory board, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2014-16. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014
Member, editorial board, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2014-18. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014
Co-chair, CUNY Consortium for Bioethics. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2013
Pedagogical Achievements
Philosophy Department Social Hour speaker 2021
"Bioethics, Psychology, and the Law," "Ethical & Legal Issues in Psychology," CUNY Graduate Center, November 16, November 23, 2020. 2020
Philosophy Department Social Hour speaker 2020
Community Activities
"Public Health, Pandemics, and Public Policy,"The Lyceum Lectures, Binghamton, New York, October 5th; October 12th, 2015. 2015
Other Professional Activities
BBC World Service, Interview, "COVID-19 and Russia," November 1, 2021. 2021
Medical News Today, Interview, "Russians 'have a hard time trusting their own vaccine,' expert says," October 12, 2021, 2021
The Daily Beast, Interview, "Russia's Petty Race With the West Ends in Dire COVID Crisis," November 1, 2021. 2021
