Rebecca Bamford, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, CLI
Specialty: Philosophy
Phone: 507-258-8212
Fax: 507-280-2820
Email: sbamford@umn.edu

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Durham University, 2004
M.A., Philosophy, Durham University, 1998
B.A., Combined Studies in Arts (German, Philosophy, Russian Studies), 1997

Background

Rebecca Bamford holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Durham University. Before coming to UMR, she was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at Rhodes University, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University, and she taught philosophy and interdisciplinary human studies at the universities of Durham, Bradford, and Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Teaching

At UMR, I am responsible for the design and delivery of the humanities component of the BSHS core. Courses include: 'Introduction to the Arts and Humanities', 'Ethics', 'Bioethics', and 'History and Philosophy of Science'. Courses at previous institutions have included 'Foundations: Modern Philosophy', 'Philosophical Psychology', 'Nietzsche', 'Knowledge and Reality', 'Philosophical Ideas in Literature', 'Alienation and Reconciliation', 'Ethics', and 'Social Philosophy'.

Research

My research explores questions arising at the intersections between modern European philosophy, contemporary philosophical psychology, aesthetics, and literature. I have published articles on ethics and on the history of modern European philosophy, and I served as Assistant Editor of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies between 2007 and 2009.

Select Publications and Abstracts

“Nietzsche’s Daybreak”, in Paul C. Bishop (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, (Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer [Camden House], forthcoming 2010).

“The Virtue of Shame: Defending Nietzsche’s critique of Mitleid”, in Gudrun von Tevenar (ed.), Nietzsche and Ethics, (Berne: Peter Lang Verlag, 2007).

“Nietzsche and Ubuntu”, South African Journal of Philosophy, Volume 26, Number 1, 2007.

“Nietzsche, science, and philosophical nihilism”, South African Journal of Philosophy, Volume 24, Number 4, 2005.