Expertise
Metaphysics, Feminism and Gender Studies
Research Interests
Gender, masculinity, online identity and communication, media
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Kentucky
- M.A., Philosophy, University of Kentucky
- M.A., Women's Studies, Florida Atlantic University
- B.A., Women's Studies, Denison University
Biosketch
Christa Hodapp, Ph.D., was born in Cincinnati OH, and received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Kentucky in 2011. At UML, she currently serves as the coordinator of the gender studies program and as an associate director for the BLA program and has great dedication to interdisciplinary research and learning. Her academic and research interests include media and film, sports, personal identity, online identity and communication, and issues in death and dying. She resides in Dracut, MA with her family, and enjoys playing the piano and power lifting in her spare time.Selected Awards and Honors
- Teaching Award, UML Department of Philosophy, 2023
- UML FAHSS Teacher of the Year Award, 2017
- UML FAHSS Advisor of the Year Award, 2014
Selected Publications
- Men's Rights, Gender, and Social Media. Lexington Books, October 2017
- Hodapp, C.M. (2017). Men's Rights, Gender, and Social Media. Rowman & Littlefield
- Hodapp, C.M. (2013). Giving an Account of Oneself. Pluralist,8(1) 115.
- Hodapp, C.M. (2011). Biological Human Ontology and Persistence: Animalism and the Implications of Human Identity Without Psychology. University of Kentucky
- Hodapp, C.M. (2004). Dancing beneath the surface: Men, masculinity and expressions of the feminine.
Selected Presentations
- 2022, Paper Presentation, Radical Philosophy Association, "My Mistake: Apology and Forgiveness in the #metoo Era."
- 2016, Paper Presentation, Radical Philosophy Association, "Big Men, Big Hands, Big Talk: Masculine Crisis in the 2016 Presidential Election."
- 2015, Paper Presentation, Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts Conference, "Rogue Gentlemen and Charming Beasts: The Masculine Double Bind in Film Noir.