Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Name:            Dr John Mullarkey

Nationality:   Irish

D.o.B:             28/10/1965

Position:       Lecturer in Philosophy

Address:       School of Humanities

            College of Arts & Social Sciences

            University of Dundee

            Nethergate

            Dundee DD1 4HN

            Scotland

            UK

Tel:                +44 (0)1382 384517

Fax:               +44 (0)1382 385199

Email:           [email protected]

Higher Education

·        2002-2003: Masters in Film and Media Studies, at University of Sunderland. Passed with Distinction

·        1994-1996:Certificate of EducationinHigher Education at University of Sunderland

·        1990-1993: PhD in Philosophy at University of Warwick. Title: ‘Bergson and Perspectivism’. Supervisor: Professor David Wood; External Examiner: Leszek Kolakowski

·        1987-1989: MA by Research in Philosophy (First Class Hons.) at University College, Dublin

·        1984-1987: BA Hons. in English (First Class) and Philosophy (Upper Second Class) at University College, Dublin

Experience

·        2004 to date: Lecturer in Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (since 2006, School of Humanities), University of Dundee

·        2001-2: On secondment to University College, Dublin as Lecturer in Philosophy

·        1994-2004: Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (since 2003, in Film and Media in the School of Art, Design, Media and Culture), University of Sunderland

·        1993-1994: Assistant to the Director of Graduate Research in the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick

·        1992-1994: Seminar Tutor in History of European Philosophy and Philosophy of Science in Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick

Teaching

Current Teaching at University of Dundee:

                        Undergraduate:

·        Module Leader and Sole lecturer for 2nd Level Philosophy courses, ‘Hume’ and ‘Recent European Philosophy’, 2005 to date.

·        Module Leader and Sole lecturer for Philosophy 4th Level course, ‘Thinking Film’, 2005 to date.

Postgraduate:

·        Module Leader and Sole lecturer on MLitt Module: ‘Bergson and the Rise of Anti-rationalism’, 2005.

·        Module Leader and lecturer on MLitt Module: ‘Major Texts and Figures  in Contemporary Philosophy’, 2006, 2007.

·        Programme Leader, MLitt in Art and Aesthetics, 2006 to date

Teaching at University of Sunderland:

                        Undergraduate:

·        Course leader for MAC 120: History of Cinema, 2003-2004

·        Contributor to MAC101, core course on Culture, Media and Film;

·        Contributor to MAC 127 on Genre Studies

·        Course leader for PHI201 Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology: Descartes to Kant, 1994-2003

·        Course leader for PHI302 Continental Philosophy, 1994-2003

·        Course leader for PHI305 Comparative Analytic and Continental Philosophy, 1995-2003

Postgraduate:

·        Module on‘Levinas, Nietzsche, and Justice’ for MA in Peace, Conflict and Justice, 2000-2004

·        Contributor to Masters Core MACM01 on Film Theory, 2004.

Administration

At University of Dundee:

·        Post-graduate Officer, Philosophy, 2006 to date

·        Programme Leader, MLitt in Art and Aesthetics, 2006 to date

·        Course leader for 1st Level Philosophy at Dundee, 2004 to 2006

·        Library Liaison Officer at Dundee, 2004 to date

·        Assistant Admissions Officer at Dundee, 2004 to 2006

At University of Sunderland:

·        Subject Leader in Philosophy, University of Sunderland, 1996 to 2004

·        Undergraduate Tutor, Philosophy, 1996 to 2004

·        Foreign Exchange Tutor, 2003-2004

·        Director of Philosophy Centre, University of Sunderland, 1997 to 2001

·        Member of Quality Assurance Board, University of Sunderland, 1997 to 2001

·        Chair of Quality Assurance Board Sub-group, University of Sunderland, 2000 to 2001

·        Member of Equal Opportunities Board, University of Sunderland, 1996 to 1998

·        1st Year Tutor, European  Studies, 1997 to 2001

Professional Status

Publishing

·        Co-editor with Prof. Stephen Linstead, University of York, on two publications for Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology andCulture and Organisation

·        Co-editor with Prof. Keith Ansell Pearson, University of Warwick, on one publication for Continuum Press (2002) and collaborator on three publications for Palgrave-Macmillan (2007)

·        Co-Editor with Caroline Williams, Queen Mary College, University of London, on ‘Key Concepts in Philosophy’ series for Continuum Press

·        Collaborator with Frederic Worms, Université de Lille III on Annales bergsoniennes (Presses Universitaires de France, 1999 to date)

·        Reader for Blackwells Press

·        Reader for Athlone Press

·        Reader for Routledge

·        Reader for Continuum Press

·        Reader for University of Minnesota Press

·        Reader for Chicago University Press

·        Reader for Polity Press

·        Referee for journal Social Semiotics

·        Referee for journal Angelaki

·        Referee for journal Theory, Culture and Society

·        Referee for journal Continental Philosophy Review

External Academic Collaboration

• Member of ‘Art, Architecture and Anthropology’ Seminar Series in preparation for AHRC ‘Beyond Text: Sounds, Voices, Images and Objects' strategic programme of research funding at University of Aberdeen, 2007.
• Member of the Deleuze Studies executive at Manchester Metropolitan University, 2007
• Local organiser for The Society for European Philosophy and The Forum for European Philosophy Joint Conference, at University of Dundee, 8 - 10 September  2006.

External Research Examining:

·        Chief External PhD Examiner at University of Central Lancashire, 2007

·        Chief External PhD Examiner at University of Sydney, Australia, 2006

·        Chief External PhD Examiner at University of Edinburgh, 2006

·        Chief External PhD Examiner at University of Warwick, 2001, 2003, 2006

·        Chief External PhD Examiner at Monash University, Australia, 2004

·        Chief External PhD Examiner at Goldsmith’s College, London, 2004

Research

Research Interests:

·        Continental Philosophy (Bergson, Badiou, Deleuze, Phenomenology, Henry, Laruelle); Philosophy of Film; Philosophy of Drawing and Diagrams; Theory and Practice; Philosophy and Non-philosophy.

·        More information about my interests and writings can be found at http://www.geocities.com/johnmullarkey/

Research Supervision at Dundee:

·        Currently co-supervisor on PhD in Philosophy and Health Care, 2005 to date.

·        External co-supervisor (with Courtauld’s Institute) on PhD in Bergsonism and British Modernism, 2006 to date.

Research Supervision at Sunderland:

·        PhD supervision on Complexity Theory (2002-2004)

·        PhD supervision on Leibniz and Deleuze (1999-2002, successfully completed and examined, 2004)

·        PhD supervision on Irigaray and Language (successfully completed and examined,1999)

·        MPhil supervision on Merleau-Ponty and Subjectivity (2001-2002)

ResearchAwards:

·        AHRC Research Leave Application, 2007-8: £25,000

·        University of Sunderland Sabbatical (one semester), 2000

·        University of Sunderland Sabbatical (one semester), 1997

·        University of Warwick Graduate Award (1991-1993): £8000

·        British Academy Major State Studentship (1990-1993): £9000

·        Jens Jacobsen Scholarship holder at University College, London (1990-1991): £1500

·        National University of Ireland Master of Arts Scholarship (1987-1989): £4000

Publications

Authored Books:

·         Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline, Continuum Press, 2006 (US edition 2007).

·         Bergson and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, 1999; (US edition) Notre Dame University Press, 2000

Edited Books and Journals:

·         Henri Bergson: An Introduction to Metaphysics (Bergson Centennial Series), Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007

·         General Editor, with Caroline Williams, of Key Concepts in Philosophy series for Continuum Press: 11 volumes from 2005 to date.

·         with Stephen Linstead (with contribution), Bergson Now, special issue of the Journal of British Society for Phenomenology, Volume 35, No.1 (January 2004)

·         with Stephen Linstead (with contribution), 'Bergson and the Social Sciences', special issue of Culture and Organization, Volume 9, No. 3 (Sept 2003)

·         with Keith Ansell Pearson (with contribution), Bergson: Key Writings, Continuum Press, London: 2002

·         (with contribution) The New Bergson, Manchester University Press, Manchester: 1999

Articles in Books:

·         ‘The Very Life of Things: Reversing Thought and Thinking Objects in Bergsonian Metaphysics', introduction to Henri Bergson: An Introduction to Metaphysics (Bergson Centennial Series), edited by John Mullarkey, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007

·         ‘Bergson and Religion’, forthcoming in History of the Philosophy of Religion, vol. 5, edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis, Acumen Press, 2007.

·          ‘Fabulation, Synchresis and Consilience’, in Annales bergsoniennes III: Bergson et la science, edited by Frédéric Worms, Presses Universitaires de France, 2007

·          ‘Bergson’, in Encyclopaedia of Modern French Thought, edited by Chris Murray, London: Routledge, 2004

·         'Philosophie au naturel', in Becoming Human, edited by Paul Sheehan, Connecticut/London, Praeger, 2003, pp.55-66

·         'La naturalisation de la métaphysique', in Annales bergsoniennes I: Bergson dans le siècle, edited by Frédéric Worms, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002, pp.309-327

·         'Deleuze and Materialism: One or Several Matters?', in A Deleuzian Century?, edited by Ian Buchanan (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999), pp.59-83

·         'La Méprise de l'homonculus et l'image de la science: Deux interprétations de la Perception pure de Bergson', in Philippe Gallois and Gérard Forzy eds., Bergson et les neurosciences, Institute Synthélabo, 1997

·         Entries on ‘Foucault’, ‘MacIntyre’, and ‘Singer’ (11,000 words in total), in Stuart Sim ed., The A-Z Guide to Social and Political Theorists, Harvester Press, 1997

Articles in Journals:

·         ‘The Gift of Movement: Film, Philosophy, and the Fabulation of Life’, forthcoming in Theory, Culture, and Society, 2007

·         'Reanimating the Auteur', edited with David Sorfa and David Martin-Jones, special issue of Film-Philosophy, Vol. 10, no.1 (2006).

·         ‘Forget the Virtual’, in Continental Philosophy Review (2005), vol. 37, pp.469-493

·         ‘Creative Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Creativity’, in Bergson Now, special issue of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, edited by John Mullarkey and Stephen Linstead, Volume 35, No.1 (January 2004), pp.68-81

·         'Bergson's Genetics of Matter', in Pli, vol. 15 (2004), pp.125-43

·         with Stephen Linstead, ‘Time, Creativity and Culture: Introducing Bergson’, in Bergson and the Social Sciences, John Mullarkey and Stephen Linstead,  eds., special issue of Culture and Organization, Volume 9, No. 1 (March 2003), pp.1-13

·         ‘Justice et Justification: Anciennes et nouvelles lectures de Bergson’, in Magazine littéraire, (April 2000), no.386, pp.24-8

·         ‘Bergson and the Language of Process’, in Process Studies, pp.44-58, Volume 24, Spring 1997

·         ‘Bergson: The Philosophy of Durée-différence’, in Philosophy Today, pp.367-380, Volume 40, Autumn 1996

·         ‘Bergson’s Method of Multiplicity’, in Metaphilosophy,  230-259, Volume 26, July 1995

·         ‘Duplicity in the Flesh: Bergson and Current Philosophy of the Body’, in Philosophy Today, pp.339-355, Volume 38, Winter 1994-95

·         ‘Perché la Filosofia?’, in Nuova Secondaria (Milan), Volume 10, 1992,pp.11-12

Book Reviews:

·        ‘Review of Twentieth-Century French Philosophy, by Alan D. Shrift’, forthcoming in the Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology, 2007.

·        Manuel DeLanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, for Theory, Culture and Society, 2004

·        Mary Bryden, ed., Deleuze and Religion, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 10 (4), 2002, pp.507-510

·        Keith Ansell Pearson, Germinal Life, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Autumn, 2000

·        Boundas and Olkowski, eds., Deleuze and the Theatre of Philosophy, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 4, 1996, pp.166-169

·        Hammond, Howarth and Keat, Understanding Phenomenology, in Philosophical Studies, Volume 33, 1992

Research Publications for 2008-2009

Books:

·        Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image, forthcoming Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008

·        Co-editor with Beth Lord (and contributing two essays), The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, contracted to Continuum Press, 2009.

Articles:

·        ‘Deleuze’, in Philosophers on Film, edited by Felicity Colman, forthcoming with Berg, 2008.

·        ‘Badiou and Deleuze’, in Introducing Badiou, edited by Justin Clemens, forthcoming 2008.

·        ‘Film As Philosophy: A Mission Impossible?’, in European Film Theory Anthology, edited by Temenuga Trifonova, forthcoming 2008 with SUNY Press.

·        ‘The New Bergson: Encore’, in Bergson and Phenomenology, edited by Michael Kelly (collection comprising other essays by Keith Ansell-Pearson, Rudolf Bernet, Edward Casey, Leonard Lawlor, Gary Gutting, Frederic Worms and others), 2008.

·        ‘Bergson’, in History of Continental Philosophy, vol. 3, edited by Keith Ansell Pearson, forthcoming with Acumen Press, 2008.

Selected Conference and Invited Papers

·         Conference paper at ‘Creative Evolution: Histories of Reception’, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Fukuoka, October 15-20, 2007.

·         Invited paper at the Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art, Autumn 2007.

·         Seminar paper at Dept. of Geography, University of Durham, February 21, 2007.

·         Seminar paper at Dept. of Philosophy, University of Warwick, February 20, 2007

·         Presentation at the Art, Architecture and Anthropology Seminar on ‘Drawing, Writing and Imaging’, at University of Aberdeen, January 8, 2007.

·         Conference paper at The Society for European Philosophy and The Forum for European Philosophy Joint Conference, University of Dundee, September 10, 2006.

·         Conference paper on Badiou at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, June 2006.

·         Seminar paper on Badiou and Henry at Dept. of English, University of Edinburgh, February 2006

·         Seminar Paper on Immanence at Department of Philosophy, University of Cardiff, UK, November 2005

·         Paper of ‘Film and Philosophy’ at TIP3 conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2005

·         Paper on Deleuze at Re-Mapping Deleuze Conference, Staffordshire University/MMU, UK, September 2005

·         Paper on Immanence a SEP, University of Reading, September, 2005

·         Seminar Paper on ‘Badiou and Henry’ Department of Philosophy, Bergen University, Norway, April 2005

·         Seminar Paper at SEPRO, Goldsmiths, March 23, 2005

·         Three papers at Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, USA, February 2005

·         ‘Henry and Immanence’ at ‘Creative Evolution’ conference, Goldsmiths, February 12, 2005

·         ‘Synchresis and Consilience’, at conference, ‘Bergson et les sciences’, 13-14 May 2004, University of Nice

·         Fabulation, or the Reality Effect’, at British Society for Phenomenology Conference, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, April 2-4, 2004

·         ‘Beyond the Virtual’, at the Cultural Memory seminar series, School for Advanced Studies, Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, London, 22 November, 2003

·         ‘The Refraction of Reality’, at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Umbria, 24 July 2003

·         ‘Refraction, Affect, and the Optics of Change’, at conference ‘Bergson and Contemporary Thought’, University of Warwick, 6 June, 2003

·         ‘Bio-Aesthetics or Memory of the Senses?’ at conference ‘Life’s Re-Emergence: Philosophy, Culture, Politics’, Goldsmith’s College London, 23 May, 2003

·         Seminar Paper at Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, London, 22 November, 2003

·         Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, 12 March 2002

·         ‘Bergson and Biology’, with Robin Durie at Department of Theology and Philosophy, College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, 19-20 July 2002

·         Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, University College, Dublin, 28 February 2002

·         Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, Dundee University, May 2001

·         Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, 23 March 2000

·         Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, University of Durham, 16 March 2000

·         Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, University College, Cork, 23 February 2000

·         ‘The Rule of Dichotomy: Bergson’s Genetics of Matter’, at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Umbria, 27 July 1999

·         ‘Deleuze and Materialist Culture: One or Several Matters?’, at ‘Deleuze Symposium’, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 5-7 December, 1996

·         ‘Pure Perception and the Homunculus Fallacy’ at colloquium ‘Bergson et les Neurosciences’, University of Lille, 3-4 May, 1995

·         ‘Myself and Other Computer-Minds: Turing Tests, Intentional Stances, and the Primacy of Perception’, at ‘Virtual Futures’ Conference, University of Warwick, 6-8 May, 1994