Research
Papers in progress
"The Forgotten Phenomenology of Love"
"The Sublimity of Unrequited Love"
"Love and Arrested Attention"
"What We Owe Our Secondary Partners"
Public Philosophy
"In praise of loving objects", Aeon+Psyche (Forthcoming)
“Love transcends the self", Institute of Art and Ideas (May 19, 2022)
“Why it can be sublime to love someone who doesn't love you back”, Aeon+Psyche (Feb. 9, 2022)
Book Reviews
Review of The Moral Psychology of Love, eds. Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogard, Philosophical Psychology (Forthcoming)
Review of Virtue and Emotion by Gopal Sreenivasan, Journal of Moral Philosophy (Forthcoming)
Blog Posts
"Embracing emotion: the philosophy PhD and BPD" Voices of Academia (Feb. 11, 2022)
https://voicesofacademia.com/2022/02/10/embracing-emotion-the-philosophy-phd-and-bpd-by-alexandra-gustafson/
“The Mental Health & Disability Caucus” Blog of the APA (Aug. 5, 2021)
https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/08/05/mental-health-disability-caucus-community-support-through-collaborative-action/
Podcasts, Recordings, Radio
“The phenomenology of love”, The Philosopher’s Zone, ABC Radio (June 5, 2022)
“Alexandra Gustafson on Love, Public Philosophy, and Disabilities in Academia”, The Philosopher’s Nest (May 9, 2022)
"What is love?" Distilled Research, (Feb. 21, 2022)
"Why it can be sublime to love someone who doesn't love you back", Curio (Feb. 12, 2022)
Talks
Refereed
"The Forgotten Phenomenology of Love"
Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) annual conference, May 17-20, 2022
“The Mental Health & Disability Caucus”
American Philosophical Association (APA) Central Division meeting, February 25, 2022
“‘Love Alters Not’: A Study of Unrequited Love”
Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) annual conference, June 1-4, 2019
“‘Love Alters Not’: A Study of Unrequited Love”
Emotion Workshop, City University of New York (CUNY), May 3, 2019
“Edgington’s DW & HW Counterfactual Conditionals”
MCMP Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Aug. 5, 2017
Invited
"We Should Embrace Unrequited Love"
Ontario High School Ethics Bowl, University of Toronto, Mar. 5, 2023
"The Sublimity of Unrequited Love"
The Stoa, Feb. 14, 2023
"The Forgotten Phenomenology of Love"
Association of Philosophy Students, University of Toronto, Scarborough, March 24, 2022
“We Should Embrace Unrequited Love”
Symposium on Love, University of Toronto, Feb. 11, 2022
“The Phenomenology of Love”
Philosophy Roundtable, The College of Wooster, Sep. 17, 2020
“‘Love Alters Not’: A Study of Unrequited Love”
Philosophy Roundtable, The College of Wooster, April 5, 2018
Comments
Comments on Joel Van Fossen’s “Satisficing Love”
APA Eastern Division Meeting, Montréal, Jan. 4-7, 2023
Comments on Eskil Elling’s “Montaigne and the Problem of Skeptical Subjectivity”
The Department of Philosophy’s Graduate Research Weekend, University of Toronto, Nov. 16, 2019
Comments on Robert Stern’s “The Radical Demand in Løgstrup’s Ethics”
The Department of Philosophy’s Robert Stern workshop, University of Toronto, Sep. 20, 2019
Comments on Geoffrey Weiss’s “Filling in the Gaps in Fricker’s Relativism of Blame Thesis”
Centre for Ethics (C4E) Graduate Conference, University of Toronto, May 4, 2019
Comments on Julie Kirsch’s “Misinterpreting our Memories and Emotions”
The Department of Philosophy’s Graduate Research Weekend, University of Toronto, Mar. 23, 2019
Guest Lectures
“On Love"
Guest lecture for PHL334H1 F: Philosophy of Emotions, University of Toronto, Oct. 31, 2019