Nancy Tuana
Professional Bio
Nancy Tuana is DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State. Her current research includes a focus on issues of environmental justice and environmental racism. Her recent book, Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference: An Ecointersectional Approach (Oxford University Press, 2023), focuses on the entanglements of systemic racisms and climate injustice. In the field of feminist philosophy, she is committed to approaches that bring together different lineages of liberatory thought, including Black feminist theory, Latinx and Latin American feminist theory, decolonial theory, Indigenous feminist theory, queer theory, and disability theory.
Tuana is series editor of the Rereading the Canon series with Penn State Press. She has been an active member of two journals Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and Critical Philosophy of Race. She was the founding director of the Penn State Rock Ethics Institute and continues her involvement in a number of the Institute’s initiatives.
Tuana is also committed to praxis. She has developed expertise in working as a member of scientific teams to address issues of adaptation to climate impacts that are attentive to the values and lifeways of those impacted. She is currently a member of the NSF funded research collaboration, Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub.
Books and Anthologies
Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference: An Ecointersectional Approach, 2023, Oxford University Press.
Beyond Philosophy: Nietzsche, Foucault, Anzaldúa, co-authored with Charles Scott, Indiana University Press, 2020.
Race and the Epistemologies of Ignorance, ed. with Shannon Sullivan, SUNY Press, 2007.
Revealing Male Bodies, ed. with William Cowling, Maurice Hamington, Greg Johnson, Terrance Macmullen Indiana University Press, 2002.
Engendering Rationalities, ed. with Sandra Morgen, SUNY Press, 2001.
Feminism and Philosophy: Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application, ed. with Rosemarie Tong, Westview Press, 1995.
Re-Reading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Plato, ed. Penn State Press, 1994.
The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature, Indiana University Press, 1993.
Women and the History of Philosophy, Continuum/Paragon House, 1992.
Feminism and Science, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Journal Special Issues
Critical Philosophy of Race After Ten Years, Critical Philosophy of Race, 2024.
Toward Decolonial Feminisms: Tracing the Lineages of Decolonial Thinking through Latin American/Latinx Feminist Philosophy, with Emma Velez, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2020.
Decolonial Feminisms, with Emma Velez, Critical Philosophy of Race, 2020.
Race in the Age of the Anthropocene, with Robert Bernasconi, Critical Philosophy of Race, Special Issue, 2019.
Idioms of Ethical Life, with Charles Scott, Epoché, Special Issue, 2017.
Non-racialism, Color-blindness, and Post-Racialism: Critical Reflections from South Africa and the US, with Robert Bernasconi, Gabeba Baderoon, Kathryn Gines, and Melissa Steyn. Critical Philosophy of Race, Special Issue, Volume 5, Number 2, 2017.
South African and U.S. Critical Philosophies of Race, with Robert Bernasconi, Critical Philosophy of Race, Special Issue, Volume 4, Number 2, 2016.
Climate Change, with Chris Cuomo, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Special Issue. Volume 29, Number 3, 2014.
Ethics, Indifference, and Social Concern, Epoché, Special Issue, 2012.
Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance, ed. with Shannon Sullivan, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Special Issue, Volume 21, Number 3, 2006.
