Karmen MacKendrick, Ph.D.
- Professor Philosophy
Karmen MacKendrick combines philosophy with theology, cultural studies, and literary theory to pursue her fascinations with language and all things somatic. She is the author of Material Mystery: The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies (Fordham UP, 2021), Failing Desire (SUNY Press, 2017), The Matter of Voice (Fordham UP, 2016), Divine Enticement (Fordham UP, 2012), Fragmentation and Memory (Fordham UP, 2008), Word Made Skin (Fordham UP, 2004), Immemorial Silence (SUNY Press, 2001), counterpleasures (SUNY Press, 1999), and (with Virginai Burrus and Mark D. Jordan) Seducing Augustine (Fordham UP, 2010), along with various articles on related subjects. She teaches core classes (PHL 110, COR 400), philosophy electives, and Honors courses. Karmen was awarded the Joseph C. Georg Endowed Professorship for 2009-2012.
Education
B.A., University of Colorado
Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook
Publications
Material Mystery: The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies. Fordham UP, 2021.
“Augustine on the Body and its Pleasures.” In The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy. Edited by Andrew LaZella and Richard A. Lee, Jr. Edinburgh UP, 2020, 21-36.
“Revelation at the Limit: Mystery and Matter after the Valentinians.” In We and They: Decolonizing Greco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities. Edited by Jonathan Cahana-Blum and Karmen MacKendrick. Aarhus UP, 2019, 27-46.
“At the Still Point: The Heart of Conversion.” Religions 10, no. 4 (April 2019).
