ICAS’s goal is to develop an annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies in each continent. Currently we have a conference in Europe and in North America.
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Stephanie Jenkins
International Annual Conference for CAS, Director
Stephanie Jenkins is a dual-PhD candidate in Philosophy and Women’s Studies. Her research and teaching interests include 20th century French philosophy, feminist philosophy, disability studies, critical animal studies, and bioethics. She received her Master’s degree in Philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University in 2007. Her Master’s thesis, “The Bodying of the Body: Levinas’ Theory of Embodiment” outlines and analyzes the role of embodiment in Levinas’ early work through Totality and Infinity. She is a recipient of the Weiss Fellowship, a Penn State scholarship awarded to students who excel in interdisciplinary work in the humanities and sciences. Currently completing her dissertation, “Enabling Biopower: A Genealogy of Able-Bodiedness,” she expects to complete her doctorate in May of 2011. As a feminist vegan living with a disability and as an advocate for an ethics of nonviolence, she combines her life experience and theoretical interests by striving to create strategic alliances between people with disabilities and nonhuman animals.
