Associate Professor, Chair

Philosophy

Dennis McEnnerney is an interdisciplinary political theorist whose reseach and teaching bridges philosophy, history, and political science. His work draws on conceptual history, critical theory, and poststructuralism, with an emphasis on French and Francophone works. He co-founded the Association for Political Theory in 2000 and served as its director, treasurer, and website coordinator for most of its first decade. At Colorado College, he has served on the Faculty Executive Committee , the College Budget Committee, and the College Compensation Committee.

Representative Publications

"Democracy as Voice: Political Liberalism and Critical Philosophy in Dialogue," in Political Theory: The State of the Discipline, ed. Evangelia Sembou (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), pp. 109-38.

"Introduction: Histories of Resistance," and "Theory and Practice of Résistance in Early Modern France," in Histories of Resistance (guest ed., Dennis McEnnerney), a special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 35, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 1-5, 52-71.

"Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics," in The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, ed. Tyler Stovall and Sue Peabody (Duke University Press, 2003), pp. 259-81.

Link to CV

Regular Courses Taught

Regular Philosophy Courses:

PH201 History of Modern Philosophy

PH203 French Philosophy in Context: 1930 to the Present
(co-taught with Jonathan Lee in Paris)

PH243 Philosophy and Politics of Identity

PH244 Classical Social and Political Philosophy
(cross-listed as CL 222)

PH245 Modern Social and Political Philosophy

PH341 Contemporary Political Philosophy

PH342 Critical Theory

Topical Philosophy Courses:

PH203 Pragmatist Challenges: Doing Philosophy in Plural

PH/HY350 History-Philosophy Seminar: Atlantic Enlightenments
(co-taught with Bryan Rommel-Ruiz)

History:
HY 200 Quebec (co-taught with Tip Ragan in Canada)