Maria Gallego-Ortiz
Maria Gallego-Ortiz
Contact
Stokes Hall North 230G
Email: maria.gallego.2@bc.edu
Education
- B.A. Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia
- M.Litt., University of St. Andrews
- M.A. md传媒国产剧 College
Courses
Philosophy of the Person I
Philosophy of the Person II
Research Interests
Ethics
Philosophy of Imagination
Continental Philosophy
Office Hours
T/TH聽 聽1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
Department
Biography
Maria Gallego-Ortiz is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at md传媒国产剧 College. She holds an MA in Philosophy from md传媒国产剧 College, an MLitt in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews, and a BA in Philosophy from Universidad de La Sabana. Her research investigates the significant role of imagination in moral life, focusing on how individuals perceive, respond to, and ethically shape their world through deliberate acts of attention, narrative construction, and embodied experience. She finds particular value in the works of Iris Murdoch and Paul Ric艙ur, whose writings provide essential insights into developing a moral vision that extends beyond standard rule-following and rational deliberation. Maria鈥檚 wider academic interests include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of religion. She is particularly interested in how experiences of subjectivity, desire, and hospitality inform ethical life. Drawing on philosophical texts, literature, and sacred poetry, her work examines how individuals come to see themselves and others more truthfully, and how such vision might support more just and compassionate ways of living.
PUBLICATIONS
Gallego-Ortiz, M. 2025. The experience of pregnancy as an embodied metaphor of hospitality. Continental Philosophy Review聽58, 403鈥�423. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-025-09691-5
Gallego-Ortiz, Maria. 2024. Revising Gerty MacDowell鈥檚 Identity and Agency: An Intersectional Feminist Disability Perspective. Humanities聽13, no. 6: 147. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13060147
Girado鈥怱ierra, Jes煤s David; Gallego鈥怬rtiz, Maria Camila; and Thoene, Ulf. 2024. Aristotelian versus Platonic and Machiavellian interpretations of phronesis: A critical reflection on leadership and management education.聽聽International Social Science Journal聽74, no. 254: 1577-1592. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12527
Girado鈥怱ierra, Jes煤s David; and Gallego鈥怬rtiz, Maria Camila. 2021. Antropot茅cnica: dominar la fortuna, compensar la deficiencia y mejorar la vida. Humanismo y transhumanismo: reflexiones desde las ciencias humanas y sociales.聽Editores Gustavo A. Mu帽oz Mar铆n y Jes煤s David Cifuentes Yarce, Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, pp. 234-246.
Presentations
鈥淚magination and Moral Vision in Iris Murdoch鈥檚 Moral Philosophy鈥� -聽Will be presented at the 122nd meeting of the APA Eastern Division. Baltimore, Maryland (January 2026)
鈥淩eshaping Subjectivity through Women鈥檚 Desire A Kristevan Interpretation of Song of Songs鈥� -聽Will be presented at the 2025 Psychology and the Other Conference md传媒国产剧 College (September 2025)
鈥淓thics as Poetics. Exploring Imagination in Ethical Life through Gaston Bachelard鈥� Presented at the 54th Annual North Texas Philosophical Association Conference The University of Texas at Dallas (March 2024)
鈥淚ris Murdoch: Life and Work鈥� PhilosopHERS Workshop Series Philosophy Department, md传媒国产剧 College (November 2023)
鈥淚magination in Moral Action: A Murdochian-Ric艙urian Account鈥� Presented at the 17th Annual Society for Ric艙ur Studies Conference Institute for Christian Studies (October 2023)
鈥淧ULSE: A Service-Learning Course to Promote Character Development in College Students鈥� With Jeronimo Ayesta (md传媒国产剧 College Ph.D. Student) Presented at the European Character and Virtue Association Conference Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (June 2023)
鈥淭he Hospitality of the Pregnant Woman as a Possibility for Radical Hospitality鈥� Presented at the Fides Quaerens Conference: Hospitality and the Impossible Villanova University (April 2023)
鈥淎gainst Radical Hospitality: A Feminist Reading鈥� Presented at the Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy Texas State University (June 2022)
鈥淢aking Sense of Akrasia in Plato鈥檚 Protagoras鈥� Presented at the Southeastern Graduate Philosophy Conference University of Florida (April 2022)
鈥淚ris Murdoch, Imagination and the Good Life鈥� Presented at the New Voices Conference History of Women Philosophers and Scientists Paderborn University, Germany (February 2022)
Awards and Recognitions
AAUW International Fellowship (2025-2026) 鈥� AAUW International Fellows are selected for their academic achievement, scholarly promise and demonstrated commitment to women and girls. Thousands of AAUW International Fellows have returned to their home countries to become leaders in government, academia, community activism, business and science..
The Clough Center for the Study of the Constitutional Democracy Doctoral Fellowship (2025-2026)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Convener, md传媒国产剧 Phenomenology Circle (2023-Present)
MA Council Member (2021-2023)
MA Representative to the GSA (2021-2023)
Professional Organizations
Iris Murdoch Society
Society for Ric艙ur Studies
American Philosophical Association