Kathryn Sophia Belle - Author, Speaker, and Founder of La Belle Vie Academy
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This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.
Today's conversation is with Kathryn Sophia Belle, philosopher, published author, and public speaker. After earning her doctorate in philosophy, she had a successful 20-year career in academia (2003-2023) before resigning/retiring as a tenured associate professor (of philosophy, Black Studies, and Women's Studies) and administrator (directing an Africana Research Center). Her scholarly specializations include African American/Africana Philosophy, Black Feminist Philosophy, Continental Philosophy/Existentialism, and Social/Political Philosophy. She is author of Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question (Indiana University Press, 2014, also in French: Éditions Kimé, 2023). She is also co-editor of Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2010). Her current writing projects include a book on the philosophy of Audre Lorde (under contract with Yale University Press) and her own memoir trilogy (Marriage/Motherhood/Erotic Empowerment). Dr. Belle is founder of La Belle Vie Academy with signature programs: La Belle Vie Writers and Exit Strategies, Happily Unmarried and Erotic Empowerment. Dr. Belle is now channeling her 20-years of experience and expertise in academia and La Belle Vie Academy with a new venture: Belle's Bed & Breakfast/Boutique Hotel - a continuation and extension of her overall vision. She is delighted to call Savannah, GA her chosen and spiritual home – ever grateful to be in beloved community.