Andrea Dionne Warmack is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Ursinus College. Andrea completed her PhD in the Philosophy Department of Emory University, USA under the direction of George Yancy. Andrea’s dissertation project was a critique of Merleau-Ponty’s account of the human subject (and intersubjectivity) achieved via a critical and creative reading through the lenses of Black Feminist and Womanist thought, Blues, and Blackwomxn’s Literature. This reading positions the lives and practices of Black people in general, and Blackwomen in particular, as lived flesh, a social otherwise that takes the exclusion of Black people from the construct of the human subject as a condition of opportunity and possibility rather than lack.

Andrea has given talks at various conferences including philoSOPHIA, Hypatia, the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, the Canadian Philosophical Association, The Collegium of Black Women Philosophers, and the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory. Andrea has been published in Puncta, Southwest Philosophy Review, and has an article in the April 2024 edition of Philosophy Compass.

Andrea is a member of Phi Sigma Tau and serves on the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on LGBTQ People in the Profession. Andrea is a member of the LGBTQ Advisory Committee for SPEP. Andrea is a curator for the Society of the Philosophy of Sex and Love.

Andrea’s interests are (critical) phenomenology, love, pleasure, gender, Blackness, queerness, abolitionist thought, stoner food, plants/gardening, and bow ties (in no particular order).