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Dr. McCullough's research centers on modern philosophy of religion and interpretations of modernity. She has taught philosophy at CSUDH since fall 2014, and has previously taught religious studies at Muhlenberg College, Hanover College, and New York University. She completed her PhD at the University of Chicago, master's degree at Harvard University, and bachelor at University of California Santa Cruz. She is author of The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil (I.B. Tauris, 2014), editor of The Call to Radical Theology by Thomas J. J. Altizer (SUNY, 2012) and Conversations with Paolo Soleri (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012); and coeditor, with Brian Schroeder, of Thinking Through the Death of God (SUNY, 2004). In 2008 she was a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University. Her latest book project on the contemporary philosopher D. G. Leahy, coedited with Elliot R. Wolfson, will appear from SUNY Press in 2020. She is also guest editor of a special issue on Thomas J. J. Altizer for the peer-reviewed online Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Winter 2019 (www.jcrt.org).
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Recent Articles
- The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. (forthcoming)
Description: The first reference work in any language dedicated to French philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943) offering contributions by some forty international experts on her work. The volume includes an introduction to Weil’s intense life, a guide to her writings and exploration of the key terms of her thinking and the principal figures who influenced her.
Purchase Link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbury-handbook-of-simone-weil-9781350341623/ - “Power in Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil,” Chapter 1 in Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil: Unprecedented Conversations, edited by Kathryn Lawson and Joshua Livingstone. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Pages 19–41.
- “The Need for Roots,” Chapter 4 in A Declaration of Duties toward Humankind: A Critical Companion to Simone Weil’s “The Need for Roots,” edited by Eric O. Springsted and Ronald K. L. Collins. Durham: Carolina Academic, 2024. Pages 99–132.
- “Simone Weil and the Empathetic Emotions,” Chapter 15 in The Empathic Emotions in the History of Philosophy, edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson and David James. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. (forthcoming)
- “Simone Weil and Phenomenology,” in The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil, edited by Deborah Casewell and Christopher Thomas. London: Routledge Publishing, 2026. (forthcoming)
- "Simone Weil," a biographical essay in Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophy (internet), forthcoming in April 2021.
- "The Death of God in the Nineteenth Century,” in Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology, ed. Daniel Whistler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
- "Simone Weil and the Meaning of Life,” in The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers, edited by Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia. London: Routledge, 2018.
- "Simone Weil” and “D. G. Leahy,” in Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology, ed. Christopher D. Rodkey and Jordan E. Miller. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- "Irenic Ironic Unsayable: A Correlation of Franke and Wolfson,” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy and Negative Theology: Sounding the Unsayable, ed. Nahum Brown and J. Aaron Simmons. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- "Simone Weil’s Analysis of Oppression: From La Boétie to the Neoliberal Present,” in Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy, ed. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
- "Simone Weil’s Phenomenology of the Body,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy 4:2 (November 2012): 195–218.