Biography
Mariah Partida is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University. She earned her PhD in Philosophy at the University of New Mexico in 2022 and passed her doctoral defense with distinction. Her research interests are 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Feminist Ethics, and Disability Studies. She regularly teaches Ethics and Society and Latin American Philosophy. Her publications include: “Challenging Negative Assumptions about Disability with Spinoza, Deleuze, and Guattari” (Deleuze and Guattari Studies, forthcoming); “Levinas, Guenther, Solitary Confinement, and the Ethical Encounter with the Other” (Brill, 2026); “Heidegger and Garland Thomson: Uncanniness, Misfitting, and Disability” (Brill, 2025); and “Is Judith Butler’s Rejection of Liberal Individualism Compatible with a Relational Understanding of Autonomy?” (The Acorn, 2023). She has also presented her work at a number of philosophy conferences, including: the International Conference on Philosophy of mind; the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; the British Society for Phenomenology; Great Lakes Philosophy Conference; Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy; Concerned Philosophers for Peace; Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis; and at The New School for Social Research.
Research Interests
19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Heidegger, Beauvoir, and Deleuze); Social and Political Philosophy (especially prison ethics); Vulnerability and Feminist Ethics.
Teaching Interests
Ethics and Society; Latin American Philosophy