Contacts

• B.A., University of Nevada, Reno
• M.A., Long Island University, Brooklyn

Dan Aalbers is completing his doctoral dissertation at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Dan teaches classes in psychology. His interests include historiography, critical psychology, liberation psychology and other emancipatory psychologies. He is currently researching the roles that psychologists have played in the Bush and Obama torture programs.

Samantha Bankston received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Purdue University, an M.A. in Philosophy from The New School for Social Research, and a B.A. in French from the University of Colorado.  Previously, she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in philosophy, English, and French at Purdue University and the University of Grenoble in France.  She is fluent in French and her work has appeared in New Perspectives on Anarchism, at http://www.webdeleuze.com, and her translation of Anne Sauvagnargues’ book, Deleuze et l’art, is forthcoming from Continuum Press.  Her research interests include contemporary Continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, critical theory, literature, and modern art.  This year she was Smith College’s Mortimer Scholar, having conducted research in their Sylvia Plath archives for a project on poststructuralism and The Bell Jar, which she is preparing for publication.  She is currently turning her dissertation, Becoming and Time in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, into a book for publication, and is writing an article on Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of ambiguity and the future of the Humanities, which she presented this summer at the 20th International Simone de Beauvoir Society Conference, hosted by the University of Oslo and The University of Science and Technology, Norway.  A Colorado native, Bankston loves snowboarding and wandering in the mountains.  This fall she will be teaching the following courses: Existential Literature, Eco-Psychology, French 1, and English Composition 2: Image and Writing.