Felicia Nimue Ackerman's essays on bioethics have appeared in The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, The Hastings Center Report, The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics, vox.com, and elsewhere. Her work on philosophical themes in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur has appeared in Arthuriana, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, and elsewhere. She is completing a book, Ethics and Character in Malory's Le Morte Darthur, for Palgrave Macmillan. Her sixteen short stories have appeared in Commentary, Mid-American Review, Playgirl, Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards, and elsewhere. Her over 300 poems have appeared in American Atheist, The American Scholar, The Boston Globe, Down in the Dirt, The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, Free Inquiry, The Galway Review, Inside Higher Ed, Light, Lighten Up Online,The Los Angeles Times, The New Verse News, The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Options Magazine, Politics/Letters, The Providence Journal, Rhode Island Monthly, Scientific American, Sparks of Calliope, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She wrote a monthly op-ed column for The Providence Journal until Gannett stopped using regular freelance columnists, and she writes a poetry column ("Felicitations") for Options. Her op-ed columns have been reprinted in Chicago Sun-Times, The Detroit News, The Korea Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Seattle Times, and elsewhere. She has been profiled in The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/all-the-letters-that-are-fit-to-print on NPR: http://www.onthemedia.org/story/dear-editor/transcript/ and in Rhode Island Monthly https://view.joomag.com/rhode-island-monthly-december-2019/0645837001573749060?short
See research overview.
Year | Degree | Institution |
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1976 | PhD | University of Michigan |
1968 | BA | Cornell University |
Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January-June 1985.
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1988-9.
Short story in Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards
An article about me (consisting entirely of quotations from me except for a one-sentence editorial note),which appeared in the July/August 2018 Brown Alumni Magazine, won a 2019 Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) award.
Emily Dickinson International Society
American Philosophical Association
International Arthurian Society
Modern Language Association
Orwell Society
PHIL 0030 - Skepticism and Knowledge |
PHIL 0061 - Ethical Themes in the Contemporary American Short Story |
PHIL 0430 - Ethical Themes in the Contemporary American Short Story |
PHIL 0880 - Ethical Themes in the Contemporary American Short Story |
PHIL 0991N - Ethical and Political Issues in George Orwell's Novels |
PHIL 1142 - Ethical and Political Issues in George Orwell’s Essays and Novels |
PHIL 1400 - Ethics in the Novel |
PHIL 1470 - Ethics in the Novel |
PHIL 1471 - Love, Loyalty, Language, and Politics in George Orwell's Writing |
PHIL 2160O - Fiction and Ethical Issues In Education |
PHIL 2160R - Ethical and Political Issues in George Orwell's Essays and Novels |
PHIL 2160T - Fiction as a Vehicle for Considering Ethical Issues in Education |
PHIL 2505 - Fiction as a Vehicle for Considering Ethical Issues in Education |