Tim Charlebois
Program Area(s): Political Theory
Regional Specialization(s): United States; Europe
Dissertation Title:
Attention Between Ethics and Politics: Weil, Arendt, Tronto
Dissertation Committee: Mary G. Dietz (Chair); Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Loubna El Amine
Research Interest(s): Contemporary political theory; ethics of care; epistemic injustice; critical phenomenology; democratic theory; feminist theory; disability studies; trauma studies; politics & literature; interpretation of texts
Conference Presentations:
- What is Political in Another: Simone Weil's Phenomenology of Attention", Canadian Political Science Association, June 2023
- Performing Attention: Critical Fabulation in Simone Weil's Venice Saved", Association for Political Theory, October 2022.
- "How to Not Do Things without Words: Unintelligible Histories in the Political Thought of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler", Graduate Conference in Political Theory at the University of Chicago, October 2020.
- "Make It So I Can Speak to You: Reading Silence with Hannah Arendt", Western Political Science Association, March 2018."
Honors and Awards:
- 2022 Minar Memorial Summer Award, Northwestern University
- 2021–2022 Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- 2016–2017 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada