Constance Mui

Dr. Constance Mui is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Rev. Scott Youree Watson, S.J.,
Distinguished Professorship in Arts and Sciences. She specializes in continental philosophy, and
has published articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on phenomenology, feminist theories,
Sartre, Strawson, Beauvoir, Marcel, Malabou, Laruelle, Stiegler, Derrida, and Dufourmantelle.

Selected publications include: The Sartrean Mind (co-edited with Matthew Eshleman, a 42-
chapter volume devoted to the entire Sartrean corpus in philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis,
and politics. Routledge, 2020); Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary
Feminism (with J. Murphy, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002);  “Intersubjectivity and the Look”
(2020); “The Future of the University: Stiegler after Derrida,” (with J. Murphy, 2019); “Victims,
Power, and Intellectuals: Laruelle and Sartre,” (with J. Murphy, 2018); “Pierre Loves Horranges:
Sartre and Malabou on the Fantastic in Philosophy,” (with J. Murphy, 2015); “ ‘Revolutionary
Road’ and The Second Sex” (with J. Murphy, 2012); “Sartre’s Sketch of the Emotions: A Critical
Reconstruction,” (2010); “Willing the Freedom of Others After 9/11: A Sartrean Approach to
Globalization and Children’s Rights” (with J. Murphy, 2007); “A Feminist-Sartrean Approach to
Understanding Rape Trauma,” (2004); “Enduring Freedom: Globalizing Children’s Rights” (with
J. Murphy, 2003); “Pornography, Objectification, and the Sartrean ‘Look’” (2001); “Sartre and
Marcel on Embodiment: Reevaluating Traditional and Gynocentric Feminisms”, (1999);
“Rethinking the Pornography Debate: Some Ontological Considerations” (1998); “On Gordon’s
‘Sartre and Evil’ ” (1997);”On the Empirical Status of Radical Feminism” (1990); “Against
Cartesian Dualism: Strawson and Sartre on the Unity of Person” (1991); “Sartre’s Sexism Reconsidered” (1989). Dr. Mui is recognized for her work in developing and adopting a viable philosophical framework for feminist theory based on Sartrean ontology.

Dr. Mui was recipient of the Dux Academicus Award, as well as numerous teaching and advising
awards.  She co-founded (with history professor Nancy Anderson and English professor Barbara
Ewell) the Women’s Studies Program, the first multidisciplinary program at Loyola
University. She was Scholar-in-Residence at Fudan University (School of Foreign Philosophy) in
Shanghai, PRC in 2012-2013. Her professional service includes leadership positions in many
organizations.  She has held several offices in the North American Sartre Society, and was
President of the Society from 2002 to 2005.  She served on the Diversity Committee of the
Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy from 2001 to 2005. She is President of the
Central Division Sartre Circle, as well as an Executive Editor for the journal, Sartre Studies
International.

Classes Taught

• Phenomenology
• Interpreting Sex/Constructing Gender
• Feminist Theories
• Seminar: Sartre & de Beauvoir
• Seminar: Michel Foucault
• Freedom and Oppression
• Existentialism
• Metaphysics
• Ethics
• Philosophical Anthropology
• Philosophical Perspectives on Women

Areas of Expertise

• Phenomenology and Existentialism
• Contemporary French Philosophy
• Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
• Feminist Theories