Melinda C. Hall (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Stetson University. Hall is also the Director of Stetson’s Gender Studies program. Hall is proud to be the co-director of the Community Education Project , Stetson’s higher education in prison program. She also coordinates the blog BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY with Shelley Tremain.
Hall specializes in bioethics, Continental philosophy, and the philosophy of disability. Hall’s book The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (2016) draws on the work of Michel Foucault to demonstrate that disability is central to the debate over human enhancement. Hall’s academic research is published in Disability Studies Quarterly, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and Philosophy Compass, among many other venues.
