Department of Philosophy

Office: Mackinac Hall B-3 205, Allendale Campus

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (616) 331-2496 (voicemail)

Fax: (616) 331-2601

CV: LaGuardia-LoBianco CV

Website:  Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco's Website or Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco's Academia Page

 

Professor Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco joined the Department of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University as a tenure-track faculty member in Fall 2019. In her primary research in feminist ethics, she analyzes how unjust conditions structure ethical and interpersonal practices. For instance, she argues that oppressive norms are embedded in practices like blaming, excusing, interpersonal conflict resolution, and emotion regulation, and develops ethical guidance to help correct these norms. She is especially interested in identifying the emotional or affective harms of structural injustice as they bear on these practices. Professor LaGuardia-LoBianco has published in Hypatia, Ergo, and Social Philosophy Today on these topics. Additionally, she has research interests in philosophical pedagogy concerning how some philosophical methods can exacerbate the marginalization of vulnerable groups, and in philosophy of psychiatry where she argues that treatment narratives can be weaponized against mentally ill people. She combines approaches from feminist philosophy, social philosophy, ethics (especially non-ideal ethics), moral psychology, and existentialism to address these issues. 

 

Previously, Professor LaGuardia-LoBianco was a Resident Ethics Fellow in the Stockdale Center for Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy where she participated in a year-long seminar on moral virtue and moral injury. She completed her dissertation, “Suffering and Self-Sabotage in Ethical Life” at the University of Connecticut where she was also a Dissertation Fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.