Katy Fulfer

Associate Professor, Gender and Social Justice Program Advisor
Katy Fulfer

Areas of interest

Feminist ethics, animal and environmental ethics, bioethics, and the philosophy of Hannah Arendt

Areas of Graduate Supervision

  • Applied ethics, including bioethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics
  • Most areas of Feminist Philosophy
  • Hannah Arendt

Affiliations

Member, Gender and Social Justice program

Current Research

My main research project focuses on intersectional feminist theory and home and belonging in Hannah Arendt's thought.  I also continue my research in reproductive ethics, with a focus on surrogacy and assisted reproduction.

Selected publication

  • (with Rita A. Gardiner) “Recovering Lost Treasure? Arendt, Luxemburg, and the Influence of the ‘Peer Group’ on Revolutionary Politics.” In Rethinking Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Ed. By Antonio Calcagno and Mark Yenson. Lexington Books.
  • (with Janet Jones) “Solidaristic Listening.” Hypatia 39.3 (2024): 634–51.  
  • Fulfer, Katy. “A Partial Defense of the Non-Commercialization of Surrogacy.” The Canadian Journal of Bioethics 3.3 (2020): 88-99.

Selected grants, fellowships, awards

  • From Rootlessness to Belonging: An Arendtian Critique of the Family as a Structure of Refugee Assimilation (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2018-2020).