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Papers by Grayson Hunt

Journal of STEM Education, 2023

This paper reports on a new model for faculty hiring workshops involving three components. The fi... more This paper reports on a new model for faculty hiring workshops involving three components. The first part (Part 1) of the work is an asynchronous, self-guided course that includes video reflections and commentaries from some of our own colleagues about inclusive excellence, hiring legalities, and departmental culture. The second part (Part 2) is a virtual 90-minute interactive session with breakout room discussions overseen by a facilitator. The last part (Part 3) is a monthly offering of optional onehour discussion sessions to answer additional questions, support university-wide conversations and allow participants to probe more deeply into diversity hiring opportunities and challenges. To evaluate the workshops, we administered a survey immediately following Part 2 and later conducted interviews with participants at the conclusion of their faculty search. Survey results show that nearly all elements of the workshops were wellreceived and participants reported feeling confident in their understanding of inclusive excellence, legal issues associated with hiring, and the potential for unintended bias in reviewing candidate files. The paper also provides an analysis of the interview and survey data as well as some conclusions about the impact of these new efforts on inclusive hiring.

Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 2023

Transgender and gender-nonconforming people remain excluded from women's health spaces, and nurse... more Transgender and gender-nonconforming people remain excluded from women's health spaces, and nurses with expertise in women's health best serve their needs when they seek sexual, reproductive, gynecologic, or obstetric care. However, commentary regarding the term "women" and exclusionary policies and behaviors in health care marginalize gender-nonconforming patients and contribute to health disparities. Therefore, the purpose of this article is twofold. First, we review terminology related to gender-nonconforming populations and their known health care needs; provide a brief historical overview of gender and health care; and describe the influence of white supremacist, misogynist, and heteronormative influences in women's health care. Second, we generate a call to action and specifically discuss the responsibilities of nurses and nursing organizations to ensure the provision of gender-equitable and respectful care and generate clinical recommendations for the specialty.

... 21. Legedza, AT and Ibrahim, JG (2000). Longitudinal design for phase I clinical trials using... more ... 21. Legedza, AT and Ibrahim, JG (2000). Longitudinal design for phase I clinical trials using the continual reassessment method. ... 40. Simon, R, Steinberg, SM, Hamilton, M, Hildesheim, A, Khleif, S, Kwak, LW, Mackall, CL, Schlom, J, Topalian, SL and Berzofsky, JA (2001). ...

Hypatia Reviews Online, 2015

Kathryn Gines's book details Hannah Arendt's racial and conceptual biases against Black people in... more Kathryn Gines's book details Hannah Arendt's racial and conceptual biases against Black people in the US and post-colonial Africa. Gines makes original and significant contributions to feminist philosophy by applying various feminist and anticolonial strategies, including standpoint theory and multidirectionality, to Arendt's political essays and concepts. Feminist critiques of Arendt in general and racial critiques of "Reflections on Little Rock" in particular are not new; however, Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question offers a novel and comprehensive racial critique of Arendt's major writings. Gines offers a "sustained analysis of Arendt's treatment of the Black experience in the United States" (xii), as well as racial violence within the contexts of the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, and French and British imperialism and colonialism. In this review I will offer an overview of the book as a whole, before evaluating the extent of Gines's critique as it pertains to Arendt's misguided judgments and her theory of judgment.

New Nietzsche Studies, 2015

Grace Hunt is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Her dissertati... more Grace Hunt is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Her dissertation, entitled “In Defense of Moral Resentments,” employs recognitive theory and moral psychology in order to account for how resentment is expressive of expectations and demands that are intrinsically linked to self-worth, ultimately questioning whether resentment can mobilize and perform self-worth in cases where it is systematically denied. Her work draws on Susan Brison, Jean Améry, Axel Honneth, and Friedrich Nietzsche, among ...

Symposia: The Graduate Student Journal of the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Jan 3, 2010

Contrary to the usual charge of unfettered perspectivism found in his early and midperiod writing... more Contrary to the usual charge of unfettered perspectivism found in his early and midperiod writings, Nietzsche stopped refuting truth tout court in his later work. In fact, his views in his unpublished works compiled in The Will to Power 2 appear to rely on both radical perspectivism ('there are no facts, only interpretations') and non-perspectival truths and valuations that at times appear to carry metaphysical weight (for instance, Nietzsche depicts the universe as will to power and eternal return; that is, as a recurring succession of ...

Grace Hunt here seems to be one standard concern about resentment: namely, that even in its most ... more Grace Hunt here seems to be one standard concern about resentment: namely, that even in its most mundane forms, resentment amounts to a form of petty backbiting that wants and hates what it can't have. Seen as a debilitating fixation on the past, resentment amplifies one's sense of injury alongside a desire for revenge. It is with these negative associations in mind that I suggest resentment is nonetheless a valuable critical resource for combating oppressive moral and religious norms. Of course, my defense of resentment needs to hold up against Nietzsche's contempt, since his Genealogy of Morals presents to this day the most scathing critique of the backward-looking emotion's legitimacy. I want to challenge this all too human view within philosophy that resentment is always already governed by the same underlying desire that governs ressentiment: namely revenge. 1 Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals attributes the historical and psychological lineage of Christian morality to the development of ressentiment: the chronic internalization of envy, cruelty, hatred, and resentment characteristic of disempowered people. Nietzsche's infamous genealogy, in other words, articulates Christian morality as developing out of the internalization of a desire for revenge and its attendant emotions and provides a new moral psychology 1 Whereas I understand ressentiment as deriving from the internalization of a variety of affects according to a desire for revenge, Ruth Abbey understands ressentiment to be rooted in vanity ["The Roots of Ressentiment," New Nietzsche

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2015

This article develops an Arendtian conception of resentment and shows that resentment as a respon... more This article develops an Arendtian conception of resentment and shows that resentment as a response to injustice is in fact only possible within a community of persons engaged in moral and recognitive relations. While Arendt is better known for her work on forgiveness—characterized as a creative rather than vindictive response to injury—this article suggests that Arendt provides a unique way of thinking about resentment as essentially a response to another human's subjectivity. But when injury is massive, so beyond the pale that the possibility of face-to-face human interaction is annihilated, the space for resentment is thereby destroyed. Ironically, while the absence of resentment might at first seem to be an unproblematically good thing, Arendt shows us that the loss of resentment actually signals the loss of the properly human realm.

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2016

resent the scholar herself, as it is here: “Emplaced rhetoric assumes that...” (96). Perhaps thes... more resent the scholar herself, as it is here: “Emplaced rhetoric assumes that...” (96). Perhaps these diffusions are an outcome of new materialist directions that expand what rhetoric is and who(/what?) its purveyors are. At the same time, however, I wonder how we locate analytic precision within this shifting semantic field. The bibliographic notes at the end of each chapter could have also more effectively consolidated theory. Almost every chapter includes endnotes with half a dozen citations stacked on each other without commentary (a helpful exception is Chapter 4, in which the notes do significant positioning work on rhetoric and place). While the citations are extensive, their dense formatting means that they are not likely to be as useful to would-be scholars, which is unfortunate given the book’s synthesizing role. Overall, Participatory Critical Rhetoric makes significant developments by providing numerous helpful heuristics for theorizing and carrying out field-based rhetorical work. It will be indispensable for scholars interested in critical rhetoric or in situ rhetorical analysis. It will also be helpful for scholars invested in activism, body rhetoric, affect, or rhetoric and place.

IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2016

Feminists have criticized self-defense training, arguing that by focusing on the targets of sexua... more Feminists have criticized self-defense training, arguing that by focusing on the targets of sexual assault, it constitutes a form of victim blaming, and that it is particularly ineffective against the most common forms of sexual assault. We argue here that such critiques are either targeted toward nonfeminist approaches (and therefore hold significant merit) or adopt an overly narrow standard of success that, somewhat paradoxically, fails to recognize the corporeal effects of rape culture on feminized bodies. Feminist self-defense training should be understood as a bodily intervention that seeks to interrupt, undermine, and provide alternatives to the corporeal habits that assume and perpetuate rape culture.

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2015

This article develops an Arendtian conception of resentment and shows that resentment as a respon... more This article develops an Arendtian conception of resentment and shows that resentment as a response to injustice is in fact only possible within a community of persons engaged in moral and recognitive relations. While Arendt is better known for her work on forgiveness—characterized as a creative rather than vindictive response to injury—this article suggests that Arendt provides a unique way of thinking about resentment as essentially a response to another human’s subjectivity. But when injury is massive, so beyond the pale that the possibility of face-to-face human interaction is annihilated, the space for resentment is thereby destroyed. Ironically, while the absence of resentment might at first seem to be an unproblematically good thing, Arendt shows us that the loss of resentment actually signals the loss of the properly human realm. keywords: forgiveness, moral emotions, resentment, Eichmann, Arendt In The Human Condition Hannah Arendt explains how, given the unpredictability o...

single-issue liberation movements. That is, intersectionality allows us to understand how racism ... more single-issue liberation movements. That is, intersectionality allows us to understand how racism can operate within feminist movements, and how misogyny can operate within black liberation movements. To illustrate intersectionality as a lens through which to notice internal systems of oppression within liberation movements, we begin with nineteenth-and twentieth-century Black feminism.

In my current work, I argue that the oppressions experienced by transgender people and bisexual p... more In my current work, I argue that the oppressions experienced by transgender people and bisexual people are structurally identical insofar as they are premised on accusations of “reinforcing the binary,” an accusation that undermines not only the legitimacy of trans and bi lives, but also the political efficacy of trans and bi activism and coalition building. Given this similarity and the empirical fact that bisexuality is the most common sexual orientation for trans women, there ought to be thriving trans and bi coalitions and more suspicion against attitudes that pit bisexuality against transgender experience. BTQ coalitions don’t seem to exist, and my work attempts to show why.

Yunus Tuncel’s Agon in Nietzsche and Christa Davis Acampora’s Contesting Nietzsche both argue tha... more Yunus Tuncel’s Agon in Nietzsche and Christa Davis Acampora’s Contesting Nietzsche both argue that the concept Wettkampf (agon or contest) deeply shapes Nietzsche’s philosophy. For Tuncel, “Nietzsche’s works are imbued with the spirit of agonism” (7), while for Acampora, “Nietzsche’s views on the agon shape what he argues and how” (3). In developing their own perspectives, both authors highlight the importance of an underappreciated work of Nietzsche’s: “Homer’s Wettkampf” and reveal how Homer’s notion of contest was imbued with a life-affirming spirit. Both examine Nietzsche’s appreciation of ancient Greek agon and its ability to publicly produce and reproduce cultural meaning.
These are nonetheless radically different books in both goal and approach. Tuncel’s book, Agon in Nietzsche, is decidedly more philological and archeological in method. Tuncel defines agonism broadly, “in the sense of a universal spirit of competition,” noting that Nietzsche’s agonism is “informed specifically by the ancient Greek culture of agon” (7) and offers a careful textual investigation of the moments throughout Nietzsche’s work where we find linguistic, symobolic and cultural representations of ancient Greek agon. The result is a historical foundation on which we can revaluate the importance of agon for Nietzsche’s philosophy.
Acampora’s book, Contesting Nietzsche, explores the conceptual terrain that developed out of Nietzsche’s fascination with ancient Greek agon. Her definition of agon is more narrow, and she is quick to point out that “not all contests are agons” (8), instead offering a technical and philosophical definition of agon according to a “typology of contests” that she develops in her first chapter.
Her book is analytic and argumentative. Over the course of the book, she examines Nietzsche’s greatest interpretive contests, by turning to four of his agonists: Homer, Socrates, Paul, and Wagner. From each of these respective contests, Acampora reveals Nietzsche’s commitments to life-affirming struggle, culturally productive suffering, non-religious morality, and continual self-creation. In addition to this, Acampora also contests standard readings that depict Nietzsche as socially conservative and elitist by narrowing the definition of agon to a pattern of activity that through separation and opposition, generates values that can be shared. Moreover, Acampora contests Nietzsche by interpreting his work and developing her own view of the value and meaning of agon through her concept of artful naturalism; an approach to the soul, the sciences, morality and agency that denounces teleological, reductionist and determinist interpretations of Nietzsche.
Tuncel ends with more conservative conclusions that include links between war and agon rather than agon and democracy (which Acampora avows). And yet his careful and detailed approach reveals a great deal about what Nietzsche knew about ancient Greece and why that time and place played such a huge role in this thinking. Read together, Tuncel’s work acts as a foundation to many of Acampora’s interpretive insights.

Journal of STEM Education, 2023

Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 2023

Hypatia Reviews Online, 2015

New Nietzsche Studies, 2015

Symposia: The Graduate Student Journal of the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Jan 3, 2010

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2015

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2016

IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2016

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2015

This article develops an Arendtian conception of resentment and shows that resentment as a respon... more This article develops an Arendtian conception of resentment and shows that resentment as a response to injustice is in fact only possible within a community of persons engaged in moral and recognitive relations. While Arendt is better known for her work on forgiveness—characterized as a creative rather than vindictive response to injury—this article suggests that Arendt provides a unique way of thinking about resentment as essentially a response to another human’s subjectivity. But when injury is massive, so beyond the pale that the possibility of face-to-face human interaction is annihilated, the space for resentment is thereby destroyed. Ironically, while the absence of resentment might at first seem to be an unproblematically good thing, Arendt shows us that the loss of resentment actually signals the loss of the properly human realm. keywords: forgiveness, moral emotions, resentment, Eichmann, Arendt In The Human Condition Hannah Arendt explains how, given the unpredictability o...