Dr. Kristin Rodier (she/her) joined Athabasca University as an Assistant Professor in 2021. She tutors and coordinates PHIL 152 and 252. Before joining AU as an Assistant Professor, she taught philosophy at MacEwan University and philosophy and women’s and gender studies at the University of Alberta. Her areas of specialization are critical phenomenology, existentialism, feminist philosophy, and cultural/media studies.
B.A. (High Honours) Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan
Rodier, Kristin and Samantha Brennan. “Teaching (and) Fat Stigma in Philosophy,” with Samantha Brennan, Teaching Philosophy, vol. 46, no2. 2022. https://doi.org/10.5840/teachphil2022711174
Rodier, Kristin. “Take What You Can Get and Take Care of Yourself: Mapping Sexual Stereotypes of Fat Women on Television.” The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick and Mythili Rajiva, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, pp. 101-122. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95935-7_6
Rodier, Kristin. “I am Cindy Baker.” Casual Encounters, Catalyst: Cindy Baker, edited by Ted Hiebert, Noxious Sector Press, 183-202, 2021.
Fidelak, Deanna and Kristin Rodier. "Incorporating Strategy Instruction in Assignment Design to Remove Barriers to Writing Assignments in Philosophy." in Handbook of Applying Research on Universal Design for Learning Across Disciplines: Concepts, Case Studies, and Practical Implementation, edited by Frederic Fovet. IGI Global, 2021, 97-114 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7106-4.ch005.
Benson, Lyle, Kristin Rodier, Rickard Enström. “Implementing a University-Wide Academic Integrity E-learning Tutorial: A Canadian Case.” International Journal of Educational Integrity, vol. 15, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-019-0045-1.
Rodier, Kristin. “Fat Temporality, Crisis Phenomenology, and the Politics of Refusal.” Rethinking Feminist Phenomenology: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives. Sarah Cohen Shabot and Christinia Landry (eds.) Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, pp. 137-152.
Rodier, Kristin and Joshua St. Pierre (editors). “Untimely Bodies: Resistance, Temporality, and Embodiment” Feral Feminisms, no. 5, 2016.
Rodier, Kristin and Michelle Meagher. “In Her Own Time: Rihanna, Post-Feminism, and Domestic Violence.” Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014, pp. 176-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2014.944416
Rodier, Kristin. “Touching the Boundary Mark: Aging, Habit, and Temporality in Beauvoir’s La Vieillesse.” Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, vol. 10, no. 1, 2013, pp. 37-59. DOI: 10.1.1.682.9864