Tim Charlebois

- charlebois@u.northwestern.edu
- Website
- Scott Hall 110
- Office Hours: Fr 1:00 - 3:00
Program Area(s): Political Theory
Regional Specialization(s): United States; Europe
Dissertation Title:
How to Die in Modernity: Compassion, Sacrifice and Loss in Political Theory's Ethical Turn
Dissertation Committee: Mary G. Dietz (chair); Alvin B. Tillery, Jr.; Loubna El Amine
Research Interest(s): Contemporary political theory; democratic theory; feminist theory; queer theory; ethics of care; politics and literature; interpretation of texts; Simone Weil; Hannah Arendt; Judith Butler.
Conference Presentations:
- Graduate Conference in Political Theory at the University of Chicago 2020 - October, "How to Not Do Things without Words: Unintelligible Histories in the Political Thought of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler"
- Western Political Science Association 2018 - March, "Make It So I Can Speak to You: Reading Silence with Hannah Arendt"
Honors and Awards:
- 2016–2017 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada