M. Gail Hamner
Curriculum Vitae
315/443-5716 (office telephone)
315/443-3861 (department telephone)
315/443-3958 (department fax)
2005- Associate
Professor, Department of Religion,
1998-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Religion,
1997-1998 Lecturer, Duke University, Religion Department
1997 Ph.D.,
Religion,
1989
M.T.S., Philosophical Theology, valedictorian,
of Theology,
1985 B.S.,
Biology,
University Classroom Committee, Fall 1998-Spring
2001
Advising:
Freshman Lower Division
Advising, Fall 2000, Fall 2004
Summer Advising, 2004
Faculty Senate, 2005-2007.
Faculty Senate curriculum
subcommittee, 2005-2006
Freshman Forum Leader, Fall 2004
Humanities Council, Fall 2005, 20003-2004
Honor’s Thesis co-advisor for two theses, Spring
2002
Instructional Committee,
2004-2005
Co-Founder and Co-Organizer (with
four other faculty members), New
Humanities Project, grant
awarded by the Vision Fund, 2000-2002
Coordinator of Undergraduate
Studies, Fall 2004- Spring 2006
Executive Committee, 2004-2006
Ad-hoc committee on Personal
Relations, Spring 2004
Senior Professor search committee, beginning Fall
2002
Assistant Professor search committee, 2000-2001
Undergraduate Committee, Fall 2000 and 1998-1999
Co-organizer, Religion Majors and Minors Association
(MAMA), 1998-1999,
Fall 1999
Ad hoc review committee, Fall 1998
Facilitator to the
Cross-Disciplinary Faculty and Graduate Student Reading group,
1998-present
Secretary, Syracuse University Chapter of Theta Chi
Beta, Religion honor
society, 2002-2004
Advisor to doctoral candidates
Member
Group, and (invited) Pragmatism and Empiricism
Group
Member, Organizing Committee to
bring the International Association of
Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) to
Interviewed by Adam Graham of
Morning News about Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of Christ,
February, 2004.
Interviewed by Chris Wager
of
February
16, 2004.
Interviewed
by Tom Sime from
the Dallas Morning News about nuns in film,
March 24, 2004.
Book manuscript, Religion, film and secularity,
under preparation.
Book, American
Pragmatism: A Religious Genealogy,
University Press, 2002.
Philosophy,” PoLAR: The
Political and Legal Anthropology Review,
forthcoming.
Essay, “The Work of Love”, in Opting
for the Margins: Postmodernity and
Liberation in Christian Theology, ed. Joerg Rieger,
Entry, “Cultural Saints” for The Encyclopedia of
Religion and American Cultures,
ed. Luis León and Gary
Laderman (
2003).
Book note on N.J. Allen, W.S.F. Pickering, and W.
Watts Miller, ed.s, On
Durkheim’s
Elementary Forms of Religious Life (New York: Routledge, 1998), for the Religious Studies Review, July, 2000.
2006
May 12-14, “Spinoza’s Desire
for God”, for the Sovereignty and Subjectivity
Workgroup,
June 5-10, panel on “Art, Philosophy and Terror” for
the IAPL,
2005
November, “Badiou, fidelity, and
mother intellectuals”, invited panel, American
April “Hobbes
and Transcendence”, Sovereignty and Subjectivity Workgroup,
June 2-9, “Chiasmatic Invisibilities in Frears’ Dirty
Pretty Things”, IAPL,
November, member with Creston Davis,
Amy Hollywood, Graham Ward, and
Slavoj Zizek of panel
“Gender, Politics, and the Return to Religion” for
joint session with Theology and Continental
Philosophy Group and Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group of the
2004
October 6, “Stout, Hauerwas and the
problem with Liberalism”, presented to the
SU Fine Arts Colloquim.
Jeffrey Stout’s Democracy and Tradition,
Pragmatism and Empiricism Group of the American Academy of Religion, San
Antonio, TX.
2003
Abbas Kiarostami”, Re-Thinking
Marxism,
Amherst, (invited
presenter).
2002
April 11, “Akira Kurosawa and the Question of
teaching Religion and Film”,
Religion and Society lecture series,
Nineteenth Century”,
Nineteenth-Century Group of the American
2001
April 3, “Anger Disguised
and Complex,” Religion Honor Society Annual
2000
September 21-24, “Singularity is Collectivity, Or:
How the Labor of the
Multitude is the Work of Love,” Re-Thinking Marxism 2000,
June 24, “The Work of Love
in Luce Irigaray: Feminist Politics and the Strategy
of Love,” Gendering
Ethics/The Ethics of Gender Conference,
April 7, “Apocalyptic Fear and
Scientific Commonsense: A Ghost (Spirit) in the
Machine,” AAR-EIR 2000,
February 19, Respondent to the session, “Why
Religious Studies?”, Religious
Studies and
Cultural Engagement: First Annual Alumni and Graduate Student Conference,
1999
November 22, “That Pesky ‘And’: Studying Religion
and Popular Culture”,
February 25, “The Work of Love in
Luce Irigaray,” The Working Papers in
Gender Studies Lecture Series,
1995
November, “The Sign of God in the Burning Bush:
Peircean Pragmatism and
Continental Postmodernism,”
1994
November, respondent to the Critical
Theory and Discourses on Religion Group,
February 18-19, respondent to Hayden
White, guest speaker of the Graduate
Program in Religion,
1993
April 29-30, respondent to Katie G. Cannon, guest
speaker of the Graduate
Program in Religion,
March, “The Twos and Threes of Pragmatics: Deleuzian
Dualities, Peircean
Triads, and the Politics of the Inbetween,” The Second Interdisciplinary Colloquium: The
Work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari,
Feminist theory and Feminist
theology
Marxian Theory
Pragmatism and North American Religious Thought
Religion and Popular Culture
International Association of
Philosophy and Literature (IAPL)