Featured Authors and Staff Members

Caleb Mosier is a senior philosophy major who served as Editor-in-Chief for Stance this year. He used his 3 years of Stance experience to oversee each and every step of production for this year’s journal. He also served as the representative of the journal to the public. His primary philosophic interests revolve around phenomenology, Marxism, aesthetics, and critical theory, specifically Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Adorno. His hobbies include becoming Dasein, making transcendent objects into nothingness, struggling against capitalism, and feeling anguish before the infinite uncertainty of existence. His future plans are to attend New York University in the Fall to study Media, Culture, and Communication.

Hannah Laurens is currently finishing a BA in Philosophy at Birkbeck College (London, UK). She was invited to speak at the Cumberland Lodge Philosophy Conference May 2011 and the Liverpool Undergraduate Philosophy Conference 2012. She thoroughly enjoys delving into the wide and wild variety of ideas and would love to continue her studies at MA level. After working as a stage performer (classical violin, drama, pop singing), this newly-wed young woman wanted to explore her creativity in a new direction and Stance provided a great stimulus to do so. By writing about Spinoza she could connect her philosophical interests with her home country, The Netherlands.

Ben Rogers might be the lead copy editor of Stance and he is probably a junior literature and philosophy double major at Ball State. He could be something else if all that fails. This may very well have been his second year on the Stance staff as some kind of copy editor. His primary intellectual curiosities at present (and that means subject to change at a moment’s notice) are queer theory, crying aimlessly, puzzling over Being & Time, and all of the things related to Herman Melville (which is quite a lot of things, it turns out).

maggie castor spent her first eighteen years in northern Idaho and the next four in central North Carolina; her heart belongs firmly with both, and the interesting parts about her can be fleshed out in their contrast. She is a philosopher by method and intend to merge this with a path to librarianship. She thoroughly enjoys thinking with Iris Marion Young, eating bacon, hanging out on porches, drinking coffee, driving through mountains and listening to Stars.

Kiley Neal is a junior with a major in Creative Writing and a minor in Philosophy. She served as an Associate Editor for Stance this year. She has no major focus in philosophy but is currently interested in Moral Epistemology. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, gaming, writing young adult fantasy (sans vampires), and taking care of four betta fish named after Bleach characters.

Debra Bellamy is a senior philosophy major at Goucher College. Her main philosophical interests include French Post-Structural Thought, Feminist Philosophy, Queer Theory, and Asian Thought, and she has recently begun pursuing questions of language, the animal, and philosophy of science. In addition to working for and publishing in Stance, she also spent this past year serving as the chair of the steering committee for Goucher’s Ninth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference and she is the founder and editor in chief of Goucher’s Undergraduate Philosophy Journal.