Doctorate - Philosophy
Emory University - 2017
Katherine Davies
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Incoming Director of Philosophy
Professional Preparation
Master's - Philosophy
Emory University - 2015
Emory University - 2015
Bachelor's - Philosophy, German Studies, and Music
Whitman College - 2010
Whitman College - 2010
Research Areas
Continental Philosophy
Feminist Philosophy
History of Philosophy
Philosophy of Art and Literature
Social and Political Philosophy
Publications
Forthcoming: “(Un)Making Kinship in the Wake of Family Policing” in Feminist Making, Sensing, and Doing, Edited by Lauren Guilemette and Ada Jaarsma, Duke University Press. - Book Chapter
Forthcoming: “Hyland’s Platonic Dialogue with Heidegger’s Conversations” in Drew Hyland's Festschrift, Brill. - Book Chapter
Forthcoming: “Anzaldúa’s Revolutionary Self-Writing” in Politics and Minor Literature: Transcultural Interventions in Deleuze and Guattari’s Account of Minor Literature, Brill. - Book Chapter
Forthcoming: A Question (Un)Concerned with the Feminine: On Ian Alexander Moore’s Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and Trakl for Book Forum in Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 15 2025 - Book Forum Commentary
"Antigone's (Poetic, Queer) Death: Heidegger, Butler, and Mortality" in Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender: Thinking the Unthought. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2024 - Book Chapter
Heidegger's Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2024 - Book
“Heidegger’s Conversational Pedagogy” in Research in Phenomenology Volume 52, Issue 3 (Fall 2022): 399-424. 2022 - Journal Article
“The Architecture of Appearance: Arendt’s Feminism and Guatemala’s Private City” in Arendt Studies Volume 4 (Fall 2020): 53-82. 2020 - Journal Article
Awards
Philosophy in Media Fellow - Marc Sanders Foundation [2024]
National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship, Philip L. Quinn Fellowship 23-24 - The National Humanities Center [2023]
American Philosophical Association Diversity Institute Alumni Fund Travel Award (X6) - The American Philosophical Association [2022]
Genice Rabe Travel Award - History and Philosophy Track, UTD [2019]
Minor Teaching Project Grant - Center for Teaching Excellence, Miami University [2018]
Emory Writing Center Dissertation Completion Fellowship - Emory University [2016]
Emory University Laney Graduate School Fellowship - Emory University [2011]
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany (Declined) - Fulbright [2011]
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Summer University Course Grant - DAAD, Freie Universität Berlin [2010]
Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholar - The Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State [2009]
Appointments
Director of Philosophy
[2025–2028]
[2025–2028]
Associate Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2025–Present]
University of Texas at Dallas [2025–Present]
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2018–2025]
University of Texas at Dallas [2018–2025]
Visiting Assistant Professor
Miami University of Ohio [2017–2018]
Miami University of Ohio [2017–2018]
Graduate Instructor
Emory University [2013–2017]
Emory University [2013–2017]
Projects
When Home Isn't: Theorizing the Family Policing System
Monograph in progress(Em)Placing Conversation
Book Chapter in preparation“A Critical Phenomenology of Family Policing”
Article in preparation“On Thinking and Knowing (Nothing) in the Age of AI”
Book Chapter in PreparationPresentations
Fostering Antigone
2025-26 Edwards Address at Emory UniversityAuthor’s Response to Book Panel devoted to my monograph: Heidegger’s Conversations
Heidegger Circle Satellite session at the 63rd SPEP Conference, Virtual(Em)Placing Conversation
North Texas Heidegger Symposium 40th Annual Meeting, McKinney TXThe Separated Child: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of the Intersubject
philoSOPHIA 18th annual meeting, Texas A&M UniversityAuthor’s Response to Book Panel devoted to my monograph: Heidegger’s Conversations
North Texas Philosophical Association 54th Annual Meeting, University of Texas at DallasAdditional Information
Dr. Katherine Davies is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas where she specializes in continental philosophy and feminist theory.
She received her doctorate from Emory University in 2017 after completing her undergraduate degree at Whitman College. She has been named a Philip L. Quinn Fellow at the National Humanities Center, a Philosophy in Media Fellow by the Marc Sanders Foundation, and an Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholar by the Rock Ethics Institute.
Her publications include a monograph with the State University of New York Press, articles in Research in Phenomenology, Arendt Studies, and Epoché, and forthcoming book chapters in volumes published by Duke University Press, Brill, and Rowman & Littlefield.
Her current research agenda is focused on a book project in feminist philosophy on the family policing system.