Bio

Melinda C. Hall (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stetson University. Dr. Hall is Co-Lead of the Community Education Project, Stetson’s higher education in prison program. She has also served as the Chair of the University Faculty Senate, Chair of the Philosophy Department, and Director of Gender Studies. Dr. Hall’s research specialties are bioethics, Continental philosophy, and the philosophy of disability. Dr. Hall is the author of The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (Lexington Books 2016). Her current book projects focus on the ethics and politics of risk and on claiming a disability history of philosophy. Dr. Hall is also the author of articles published in Disability Studies Quarterly, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Philosophy Compass, and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, among other venues.