Anna Boessenkool
Anna Boessenkool
Contact
Stokes N320D
Email: boessenk@bc.edu
Education
- B.A. with distinction, The King's University
- M.A., Boston College
Courses
Philosophy of the Person I and II
Logic
Practical Logic
Research Interests
Psychoanalysis
Phenomenology
20th and 21st Century French Philosophy
Feminist Philosophy
Department
Biography
Anna Boessenkool is a fifth year PhD candidate and Guest Academic Affiliate at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is currently writing her dissertation on the philosophy of childhood, focusing on the influence of child psychoanalysis on phenomenological investigations of childhood and infancy.
Presentations
“What is the Child?” Panel Presentation, Boston, MA. February 2025 (forthcoming)
“La Double Vie de Véronique and the Event” Sixth Annual Northeast Philosophy of Religion Colloquium, Fordham University, October 2024.
“On Adolescent Women and Their Bodies in Cases of Anorexia Nervosa: A Psychoanalytic Account.” Masochism, Self-Injury, and The Death Drive: Lacanian Accounts of Self-Harm in Philosophy, Film, and Clinical Contexts, Psychology & the Other Conference, October 2023.
“The Body and Value.” Stony Brook University and Boston College Joint Conference on Phenomenology and Value, September 2023.
“Melanie Klein.” PhilosopHERS Workshop Series, Boston College Philosophy Department, April 2023.
Invited respondent to Lauren Guilmette’s “Something in the Atmosphere: Theorizing Transpersonal Structures of Feeling.” Phenomenological Approaches to the Emotions, The Boston Phenomenology Circle Symposium, April 2023.
“Reading Women Mystics: Situating Sex in Christian Thought.” New Research in Philosophy and Theology, ACU and Boston College Joint Conference at ACU Rome Campus, October 2022.
Respondent to Crina Gschwandtner, “Distinguishing the Wesen of Beings: Phenomenological Method in Hedwig Conrad-Martius.” Margins of Phenomenology, The Boston Phenomenology Circle Symposium, April 2022.
“Christine de Pizan: Teaching Early Feminist Texts.” PhilosopHERS Workshop Series, Boston College Philosophy Department, February 2022.
“Expression and the Interpretive Horizon: The Phenomenological Encounter with the Other.” God and Politics: Religion and Public Life in the 21st Century, Institute for Christian Studies Undergraduate Workshop, May 2019.
Awards
Departmental Distinction, Qualifying Paper Exam, 2023
Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award 2022
Departmental Distinction, First Year Comprehensive Exam 2021
The King’s University Academic Gold Medal Award 2019