Dr. Jennifer Komorowski

Jennifer Komorowski is an expert in Indigenous Philosophy, with a focus on the ways philosophy and psychoanalysis can illuminate cultural and artistic production. She will complete her PhD in the summer of 2022 at the University of Western Ontario, where she received her MA (2017). She received her BA in 2015 at Brescia University College (London, Ontario). Her PhD Dissertation “examines the philosophy of women’s pain and masochism beginning from within the continental philosophy tradition, and then moves outward to see what it means for Haudenosaunee women to experience pain and inflict it on ourselveserests, including courses she recently developed on Indigenous Science Fiction, Indigenous Women’s Resilience, and Indigenous Digital Storytelling.

Jennifer is a registered band member of the Oneida Nation of the Thames, located just outside London, Ontario.

“I'm really excited to be joining the Philosophy Department at TMU. After studying at the Theory Centre at Western University, which is a very interdisciplinary place, this feels like my dream job because of the inclusion of a wide variety of interests within the department, as well as the large number of supportive Indigenous faculty members at the university. I love that I have the chance to develop courses in my own areas of research (psychoanalysis, Indigenous philosophy, and decolonial thought) so that I can pass this knowledge onto the students at TMU and get them excited about these ideas as well.”