Dr. Kristin Rodier

Dr. Kristin Rodier

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Contact information

Email: krodier@athabascau.ca

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I joined the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in 2021. I tutor and coordinate PHIL 252 Critical Thinking, PHIL 335 Biomedical Ethics, and WGST 401 Contemporary Feminist Theory. I also teach in the MAIS program (MAIS 658 Critical Disability Studies).

My current writing explores a critical phenomenology of the body that intersects fatness, gender, ability, and race. My research is grounded in feminist philosophy and investigates changing selfhood in light of time, habit, and gender oppression—especially as it relates to non-normative bodies. I write with and about Cindy Baker on feminist performance art and the grotesque. I co-host a scholarly podcast, thinking bodies: a feminist philosophy podcast with Anna Mudde. I'm a journal editor for the open access journal, Excessive Bodies.

I am passionate about online learning, fueling my second research program in the scholarship of teaching and learning, focusing on how e-learning interventions and universal design can foster accessibility and positive academic integrity cultures. I co-authored the Open Education Resource textbook with AU Press, Critical Thinking, Logic, and Argumentation: An Introduction (2024) with my late mentor, Eric Dayton.

I completed my doctoral studies in 2014 under the supervision of Cressida J. Heyes, after which I taught Gender Studies and Philosophy at the University of Alberta and MacEwan University. My work is inspired by the words of Judith Butler: "moral theory has to become social critique if it is to know its object and act upon it" (2009). You can learn more about my work on my website www.kristinrodier.com

Discover my research

Research interests

  • Critical phenomenology, critical disability studies, and fat studies
  • Embodiment, agency and oppression
  • Habit change and self-transformation
  • Time and temporality
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Academic integrity, universal design, online learning

Educational credentials

  • Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Alberta
  • M.A., Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan
  • GCTBL, Athabasca University
  • B.A. (High Honours) Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan