Ann V. Murphy
Professor
Department Chair

Email: avmurphy@unm.edu
Hours: Research Leave Fall 2025
- B.A. (Grinnell College, '96)
- Ph.D. (University of Memphis, '02)
Research Interests:
At UNM, I teach classes on phenomenology, contemporary continental philosophy, ethics, bioethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of gender. Examples of recent graduate seminars include: Critical Phenomenology, Philosophies of Violence & Nonviolence, Ethics of Hunger, and Philosophy of Disability. Additionally, I teach medical ethics in the UNM Combined BA/MD program and have participated as faculty in the Certificate Program in Clinical Ethics at the UNM Health Sciences Center.
Recent Publications:
"The Spirited Interworld: Caregiving and the Liminal Phenomenology of Dementia" Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. Vol. 7.1, 2024.
‘’The will to live and the meaning of life’: Hunger as vulnerability in French existential phenomenology.” Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology. 2018.
“Merleau-Ponty and the Innocence of Ontology.” Chiasmi International: International Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty. No. 19. 2017.
VIOLENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMAGINARY. SUNY Press. 2012.
“Corporeal Vulnerability and the New Humanism.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Special Issue on the Ethics of Embodiment. Eds. Debra Bergoffen and Gail Weiss. Volume 26, No.3. 2011.
“’Violence is Not an Evil:’ Ambiguity and Violence in Simone de Beauvoir’s Early Philosophical Writings.” philoSOPHIA: a journal of continental feminism. Volume 1, no.1. 2010.