Shelley L Tremain

Dr. Shelley L. Tremain holds a Ph.D. in philosophy; has taught in Canada, the U.S., and Australia; and publishes on a range of topics, including (feminist) philosophy of disability, Michel Foucault, ableism in philosophy, social metaphysics and epistemology, and biopolitics/bioethics. Tremain is author of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2017), the manuscript for which was awarded the 2016 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities; editor of two editions of Foucault and the Government of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2005; 2015), the first of which has been translated into Korean; and the editor of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (forthcoming). Shelley Tremain was also the 2016 recipient of the Tanis Doe Award for Disability Study and Culture in Canada; the Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of California at Berkeley and the World Institute on Disability in Oakland, CA; and a Principal Investigator for Canada’s national policy research institute to promote the human rights of disabled people. From April 2015, Tremain has produced Dialogues on Disability, the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed series of interviews that she is conducting with disabled philosophers and posts to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, the cutting-edge philosophy blog that she coordinates with Melinda Hall.