Shayna Federico

I am an ABD fourth-year Philosophy PhD Candidate at Villanova University, having completed MAs in Philosophy and Social Policy at the George Washington University in 2023 and in Philosophy at Villanova University in 2026. I specialize in Feminist and French Philosophies (specifically in the works of Simone de Beauvoir), with areas of competence in 20th century Continental Philosophy, Early Modern Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Translation. I am currently working on a dissertation provisionally titled "Toward an Existentialist Aesthetics of Existence, or On Faces," which seeks to answer the two related questions of what it means to have and to change a face.