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Graduate courses

• Seminar on Fichte
• Seminar on Schelling
• Seminar on Hegel鈥檚 Phenomenology of Spirit
• Seminar on Hegel鈥檚 Science of Logic
• Seminar on Hegel鈥檚 Philosophy of Nature
• Hegel and Shakespeare on Imagination
• Kierkegaard鈥檚 Early Works
• Kierkegaard鈥檚 Later Works
• Kant鈥檚 Critique of Pure Reason
• Kant鈥檚 Critique of Practical Reason
• Kant鈥檚 Critique of Judgment
• Kant鈥檚 Religion Within the Bounds of Mere Reason
• Imagination in 19th Century Continental Philosophy

Undergraduate Courses

• Philosophy and Literature: Philosophical Shakespeare
• Later Modern Philosophy
• Consciousness in 19th C. Thought
• Philosophy of the Environment
• Philosophical Ethics
• Philosophy of Religion
• Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Introduction to Philosophy

Published Single-Authored Books:

• Bates, Jennifer A.  London, England: Bloomsbury Press, 2025. 
• Bates, Jennifer A. . Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2010.  
• Bates, Jennifer A. . Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Published Co-Edited Book:

• Bates, Jennifer A., and Richard Wilson, eds. . Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Published Book Chapters:  

Refereed

• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;滨苍&苍产蝉辫;The Necessity of Freedom in Hegel's Turn Between Logic and History. University of Toronto Press, January 2026.  
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫; In Resilience in Ecology and Health, edited by Dr. Gerald Magill. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. 
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫; In L'h茅ritage de Hegel / Hegel's Legacy, directed by Kaveh Boveiri. Laval University Press, 2022.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾�� In Critical Reader on Shakespeare's Coriolanus for the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, edited by Liam Semler and Arden Press Editors. Bloomsbury Press, 2021.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫; In The Global Sustainability Challenge, edited by Gerald Magill and James Benedict. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
• Bates, Jennifer A. (2018). 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫; In The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy, edited by Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. 
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫; In Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy 1st Edition Edited by Russell Ford, edited by Russell Ford. Routledge Press, 2017. 
• Bates, Jennifer A. (2017). 鈥溾�� In The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾�� In Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy, edited by Jennifer Bates and Richard Wilson. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫; In Person, Being, and History: Essays in Honor of Kenneth L. Schmitz, edited by Robert E. Wood and Michael Baur. Catholic University of America Press, 2010.

Forthcoming Book Chapters (Under Contract):

• Bates, Jennifer A. Submitted and completed chapter: 鈥淓ncountering Objectivity: Hegel's Phenomenology of Nature.鈥� In Encountering Objectivity II - Reality and Cognition in Classical German Philosophy and Contemporary Debates, edited by Karen Koch and Elana Tripaldi. Volume under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Submitted and completed chapter: 鈥淐an Hegel's Philosophy of Nature be Used to Argue for a Non-Anthropocentric Theory of Sustainability?鈥� In The Concept of Nature in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel, edited by Christian Martin and Florian Ganzinger. Volume under contract with DeGruyter/Brill, 2024.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Submitted and completed chapter: 鈥淎ctualizing the Dialectic of Reason and Nature in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.鈥� In Contradiction as Method and Metaphysics: Reviving Hegel's Dialectic, edited by Edgar Maraguat and Rafael Arag眉茅s. Volume under contract with Routledge Press, 2025.

Published Refereed Articles:  

• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Rub of the Negative: Concrete Universality, the Sache selbst and Noumena in Cutrofello's All for Nothing.鈥� Philosophy Today 61, no. 2 (2017): 439-450.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淎bsolute Knowing: Consternation and Preservation in Hegel and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.鈥� Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 21, no. 3 (2016): 65-82.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淐onfusing Matters: Romeo and Juliet and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.鈥� Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearian Studies, no. 1 (2014): 173-201.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and the Concept of Extinction.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; Philosophy Compass 9, no. 4 (2014): 238-252.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Inverted World, Cleopatra, and the Logic of the Crocodile.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Criticism 54, no. 3 (2012): 427-443.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淎n Inquiry Into The Nature of Environmentally Sound Thinking.鈥� Environmental Ethics 25, no. 2 (2003): 183-197.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淪tevens, Hegel and the Palm at the End of the Mind.鈥� Wallace Stevens Journal 23, no. 2 (1999): 152-166.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淎bstract of Ph.D. Dissertation.鈥� Bulletin of The Hegel Society of Great Britain 18, no. 2 (1997): 75-76.

Published Invited Articles/Reviews:

• Bates, Jennifer A. Review of The Accessible Hegel, by Michael Allen Fox. Philosophy in Review XXVII, no. 1 (2007): 27-29.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Review of Hegel and the Symbolic Mediation of Spirit, by Kathleen Magnus. Philosophy in Review XXII, no. 5 (2002): 341-343.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Review of Son of Spirit, by David Farrell Krell. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 28, no. 1 (1998): 40-41.
• Bates, Jennifer A.  Report on 鈥淭he Idea of System of Transcendental Idealism in Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel鈥� --An International Conference at Dartmouth College, August 27-30, 1995. Bulletin of The Hegel Society of Great Britain, 1996.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭ips for Teaching Assistants.鈥� The Teaching Handbook. Toronto: University of Toronto Philosophy Department in-house Manual, 1995. 

Presentation of Refereed Papers:

International

• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at L'Heritage de Hegel / Hegel's Heritage, Montreal, Canada, Virtual, 2022.
• Bates, Jennifer A.  Paper presented at the Modern Language Association conference, Pittsburgh, Virtual, 2021.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淪ustaining the Trivial: Why the Liberal Arts and the Environment Need to be Sustained Together.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2019.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Kierkegaard on the Anxiety of Generation.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) conference, Canadian Congress, Montreal, Canada-Quebec, 2010.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Problem of Genius in King Lear: Hegel on the Felling Soul and the Tragedy of Wonder.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Conference, Ottawa, Canada-Ontario, 2009.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel, Falstaff and the Politics of Wit.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Freiburg, Germany, 2006.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭earing the Fabric: Hegel, Antigone, Coriolanus and Kinship-State Conflict.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse, New York, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淒isorientations in Hegel and Shakespeare.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Winnipeg, Canada-Manitoba, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Moral Chemist of the Corpus Mysticum: Why Some Version of Kant's Practical Postulates is Necessary, Even for Hegel.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Society for German Idealism Conference, American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting, Pasadena, California, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淚magination in Vajrayana Buddhism: A Philosophical Investigation of Tibetan Thangka Symbolism in the Light of Kantian Epistemology and Hegelian Aesthetics.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Leeds, Great Britain, 2003.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淧atience and the Visible.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at The Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, Learned Societies Meeting, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada-Quebec, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. and Jill Gilbert. 鈥淎 Body of One's Own: Self-Equivalence in Words.鈥� Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Temporal Hypotenuse.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, The University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, 1998.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and the Palm at the End of the Mind.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Mobile, Alabama, 1997.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Early Psychology: (in) the Wake of the Dreaming Spirit.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Western Canadian Philosophical Society, Winnipeg, Canada-Manitoba, 1997.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel, Imagination and the Nocturnal Pit.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Learned Societies Meeting, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 1996.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淔ichte and the Failed Imago.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Learned Societies Meeting of the Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Calgary University, Calgary, Canada-Alberta, 1994.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥�1794 or 1994? Fichte, Teleology and the Postmodern Imagination.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Paper presented at the Strategies of Critique VIII Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 1994.

Presentation of Invited Papers:  

International

• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥渢itle tba, on Hegel's Aesthetics in his Fr眉he Schriften II.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at international conference Aesthetics and Forms of the Fr眉he Schriften II, to be held at the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, November 2026.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淢odality in Kant and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Norms and Nature in Kant and Hegel, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, August 26-28, 2024.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淐an Hegel's Philosophy of Nature be Used to Argue for a Non-Anthropocentric Theory of Sustainability?鈥� Invited keynote presentation at Encountering Objectivity - Reality and Cognition between German Classical Philosophy and Contemporary Debates (sponsored by DAAD Hoschuldialog mit S眉deuropa 2023-24, Freie Universit盲t Berlin/Universit脿 degli Studi di Padova), Padua, Italy, October 2-3, 2023.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淐an Hegel's Philosophy of Nature be Used to Argue for a Non-Anthropocentric Theory of Sustainability?鈥� Invited presentation at Conceptions of Nature in Classical German Philosophy, Stuttgart, Germany, July 5-7, 2023.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Sheffield Hallam/Bangor joint research seminar, Bangor, United Kingdom, Virtual, 2022.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;Invited keynote presentation at Integrity of Creation: Climate Resiliency: Collaboration, Adaptation, and Action, Pittsburgh, United States of America, April 2022.
• Bates, Jennifer A.  Invited presentation at University of Sydney's EMLAC (Early Modern Literature and Culture), Sydney, Australia, Virtual, August 2021.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentator on Jeffrey Morrisey's paper 鈥淰isibility and Subjectivity: Hegel on the Medium and Meaning of Painting.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2019.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited Plenary Speaker presentation at Shakespeare And/As Philosophy Conference, Royal Holladay University, London, England, September 3-4, 2018.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on the Measure for Measure: The Hangman's Mystery.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Hegel and Shakespeare Symposium, Kingston University London, Kingston, London, Great Britain, April 2017.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Panel Discussion of Scholar/Teacher Henry Silton Harris. Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization Toronto, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2016.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Panel Presentation on Cutrofello's Book All For Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity. Invited presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Atlanta, Georgia, October 2015.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淐onfusing Matters: Romeo and Juliet and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited keynote speaker presentation at Poetics Versus Philosophy: Life, Artifact, and Theory Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, 2013.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and the Concept of Extinction.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Heidelberg University Philosophy Speaker Series, Heidelberg, Germany, 2013.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Panel Speaker on 鈥淗egel: The Sway of the Negative鈥� by Karin de Boer. Invited presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Rochester, New York, November 2012.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淥rganic or Inorganic Freedom.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization Trent University, Peterborough, Canada-Ontario, April 2012.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Respondent to Paper 鈥淭he Cosmopolitics of Capital: Prospects for Renewal and Decline鈥� by Tony Smith. Invited presentation at Cosmopolitics: Unity, Diversity, and Global Subjects conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2011.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and the Concept of Extinction.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada-Ontario, April 2011.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淜ierkegaard and Hegel on the Movement of the Moment.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Conference on Hegel's Absolute Spirit, 51暗网, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2010.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on "Sartre and the Specter of Bergson". Invited presentation at Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) conference, Canadian Congress, Montreal, Canada-Quebec, 2010.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗amlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited Executive Symposium Paper presentation at Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Montreal, Canada-Quebec, November 2010.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Wandering Sage and the Absolute Knower: Chuang-tzu and Hegel on 'the Constant' (a textual analysis of two passages in Chuang-tzu).鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at East-West Philosophy Round Table Discussion, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2007.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination: Conscience and Evil in Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited Philosophy Guest Speaker presentation at University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2007.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淚nfection in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization York University, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2007.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗enry V's Unchangeableness.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at University of Toronto Centre for Comparative Literature Guest Speaker, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2006.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel, Falstaff and the Politics of Wit.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Wilfred Laurier University Department of Philosophy Guest Speaker, Waterloo, Canada-Ontario, 2006.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淩ichard II and the Alienation of the Will.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada-Ontario, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel on Good and Bad Luck in Shakespearean Drama.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at University of Toronto Centre for Comparative Literature, Toronto, Canada-Ontario, 2004.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel on Good and Bad Luck in Shakespearean Drama.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2003.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淒esire and the Symbolic.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Ontario Hegel Organization Trent University, Peterborough, Canada-Ontario, 2002.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淲hat is an Absolute Deed? Kant and Hegel on the Categorical Imperative.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at University of Guelph Philosophy, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2002.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Dialectical Imagination.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Concordia University Speaker Series, Montreal, Canada-Quebec, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on 鈥淭he Necessity of the Dialectical Development in Hegel's Philosophy.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Canadian Philosophical Association, Learned Societies Meeting, University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada-Quebec, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Night Time and Space of Experience; Hegel's Inwardizing Imagination.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at University of Guelph Philosophy Department Speaker Series, Guelph, Canada-Ontario, 2000.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淲as vernuenftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernuenftig.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at University of Victoria, Department of Germanic Studies Colloquia, Victoria, Canada-British Columbia, 2000.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on 鈥淐an Intentionality be Replaced? Gilles Deleuze on the Platonic Paradigm of Weaving.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada-Saskatchewan, 1999.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Temporal Hypothenuse.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada-Ontario, 1998.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Commentary on three papers on Hegel and Post-Modernism. Invited presentation at International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995.

• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淧hilosophy and Sustainability.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at CTE: Introducing Sustainability in Your Courses, 51暗网, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2025.
• Bates, Jennifer A. Discussant's summary/questions of Dr. Frederick's Panel Presentation. Invited presentation at Integrity of Creation Conference: The Global Sustainability Challenge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2018.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淜antian Grit: Severus Snape and Shakespeare's Brutus.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Examined Life @ High Noon Speaker Series, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2016.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Sache Selbst: The Absolute Thing.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Duquesne Philosophy Department Speaker Series, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2015.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's 鈥業nstinct of Reason鈥� and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: What is a Relevant Aufhebung of Nature? Of Justice?.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research (CIQR), 51暗网, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2014.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination: Conscience and Evil in Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2007.

• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel's Rome and Shakespeare's Coriolanus: Grounds for Tragedy.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Invited Speaker, Speaker Series, Philosophy Department, Miami University Ohio, Oxford, United States of America, April 2019.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare on the Measure for Measure: The Hangman's Mystery.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, April 2017.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淭he Problem of Genius in King Lear: Hegel on the Feeling Soul and the Tragedy of Wonder.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at 'Shakespeare and the History of Philosophy' Shakespeare Symposium, Loyola University Chicago Graduate School, Chicago, Illinois, 2009.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淎n Inquiry Into The Nature of Environmentally Sound Thinking.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited guest speaker presentation at Pace University Philosophy Department, New York, New York, 2001.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淪pirit's Epilogue: Identity, Morality and Prospero's Insight.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at 鈥楬egel and Spirit鈥� conference, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 1999.

• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Shakespeare.鈥� Invited presentation at Carlow University conference 'Philosophy and Shakespeare,鈥� Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2011.
• Bates, Jennifer A. 鈥淗egel and Kierkegaard on the Anxiety of Generation.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Invited presentation at the Philosophy Department of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 2010.

General Editorship of a Major International Philosophy Journal:

• Bates, Jennifer A.  2025. 
  --This journal publishes three issues a year; each issue includes four to five articles and one to two Book Reviews. I have been General Editor for 8 years (since 2018).
  • I produced a Special Issue (51.2) 鈥淧hilosophical Idealism as Anti-Racism鈥� on the Occasion of Hegel鈥檚 250^th Anniversary 1770-2020 and the 50^th Anniversary of Idealistic Studies 1971-2021.
  • Under my Editorship since 2018, the journal has risen from 4^th Quartile to 2^nd Quartile (SCImago Media Rankings).

• Form and Matter in Kant鈥檚 Theoretical Philosophy, by Aaron Higgins-Brake.  Defended June 22, 2024.

• 鈥淭he Dialectic of Naturgeist in Hegel鈥檚 Anthropology: Soul, World, and Bodiliness,鈥� by Jiho Oh. Defended July 2020. Received McAnulty Dissertation Fellowship Award, 2018鈥�19.
• 鈥淓xternality in Hegel鈥檚 Philosophy of Nature,鈥� by Martin Krahn. Defended November 2018. Received 51暗网 Annual Distinguished Dissertation Award [Humanities], 2018鈥�19.
• 鈥淭hinking Without Concepts: The Aesthetic Use of The Logical Functions in Kant鈥檚 Third Critique,鈥� by Stephanie Adair. Defended April 2016. Co-supervised by Frau Prof. Dr. Claudia Bickmann, University of Cologne, Germany. This dissertation was nominated by the Philosophy Department for a 51暗网 Annual Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2015鈥�16; it received 鈥淗onorable Mention鈥� from the Awards Committee.
• 鈥淪adra and Hegel on the Relationship Between Essence/Existence and Subject/Object,鈥� by Kamal Abdulkarim Shlbei. Defended May 2013.

• Interview of Bates by Heidelberg University Magazine
• 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, 51暗网
• Nominee 2025-26 Faculty Senate Honors Showcase
• 2022 IOC Plenary Speech: 
• 2015: Presidential Scholarship Award
• 2013: 鈥淗AIreconnect Grant鈥� (Heidelberg Alumni International, University of Heidelberg) grant to travel to Heidelberg, Germany and set up student/faculty exchanges between our universities
• 2013: Grant Writing Fellowship (McAnulty College Award)
• 2011: National Endowment for the Humanities, for 鈥淗egel Logic Day鈥� conference involving four invited panelists (three from Canada) and guest student attendees from Canada as well as my Hegel Logic graduate class from Duquesne, October 28, 2011
• 2010: National Endowment for the Humanities, for Hegel Conference, 鈥淗egel鈥檚 Absolute Spirit: Connections Between Art, Religion and Philosophy,鈥� March 19鈥�21, 2010
• 2009: National Endowment for the Humanities, toward publication of my second book, Hegel and Shakespeare on Religious Imagination