Dana S. Belu, PH.D

Spring 2025 Office Hours:

Dr. Belu teaches courses in Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, History of Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy. Her current research focuses on phenomenological interpretations of the relationship between technology and gender. Dr. Belu was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy - Brooklyn College, 2004-2005 and a Research Fellow @ The Center for Subjectivity Research; Copenhagen, Denmark 2005-2006. She has been teaching at Cal-State Dominguez Hills University since 2006. Dr. Belu earned her doctorate in Philosophy from Villanova University.

• "Maternal Dasein: Ruddick and Heidegger on "Authentic Mothering,""  Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender: Thinking the Unthought, eds. T. Glazebrook and S. Claxton, in The New Heidegger Research Series, Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. 
• "Seeing the Phenomenon: The Radical Disembodiment of In Vitro Reproduction," Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology, eds. J. Zwier and B. Boer, Open Access Pubs, 2024.
• "California at the Intersection: Thinking Society, Culture and Identity in a Global Setting" in CSU Global Journal, issue 1, vol.1, Bepress, May 2023. https://www.calstate.edu/csuglobal
• "Missed Opportunities: Feminist Grounds for Regulating Transnational Surrogacy, in the Anthropocene" in Being and Value in Technology, eds. Enrico Terrone and Vera Tripodi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
• "Back to a Phenomenology of Technical Life." In Foundations of Science Journal, Vol. 26, issue 1, March 2021.
• The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon, "The Danger" and "The Gigantic," ed. M. Wrathall. Cambridge University Press (August 2020)
• "We're in this together: Climate Change and Reproductive Technology in the age of the Anthropocene" in Sustainability in The Anthropocene: Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies, (ed. Lally Roisin) The Post-Phenomenology and Philosophy of Technology Series.Lexington Books. 2019.
• Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Philosophical Essays on Renewable Technologies, ed.
• Heidegger, Reproductive Technology & The Motherless Age (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2017)
• http://reviews.ophen.org/2018/09/01/dana-s-belu-heidegger-reproductive-technology-the-motherless-age-review/
• "The Question Concerning a Vital Technology: Heidegger's Influence on Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory" in Theory Praxis: Andrew Feenberg & Critical Theory, eds. D. Arnold & A. Michel. Palgrave Macmillan. (Fall, 2017)
• "On the Harnessing of Birth in The Technical Age" in Spaces for the Future: A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, eds. J. Pitt & A. Shew. Routledge Press. (Routledge Press, August 2017).

• I received a $5000 Higher Education Small Grant from ITERATA, The Institute for Transformational Education and Responsive Action in a Technoscientific Agefor 2023-2024. The award is for my proposal to rethink the dominant techno-scientific model in higher education. I am creating a new university course that fosters a free relationship to science and technology and that will reposition epistemic authority on a new, non- technoscientific ontological footing based in experiencing life as lived through instead of the current knowledge processing outcomes-based model. This course will teach university students how to understand their worlds and situations without framing them as problems in need of solutions.
• Summer Writing Residency at Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Laugarvatn, Iceland, July 31st - August 14th, 2024. Forthcoming article "Small Revolutions in the Post-Technological Age" in Continental Philosophy Review. 

• Committee on Technology and Ethics [CTE] - February 2025 - present (Collaborating on the Embedded Ethics Project with CSC).
• CSU Global Journal, Associate Editor June 2022 - present
• UN Women USA - L.A. Chapter, Board Director, June 2022 - December 2022
• Interim Philosophy Department Chair- Spring 2020
• Coordinator of The Women's Studies Program from 2017- 2019 (Created and developed the Masterplan for the B.A. in Women's Studies, in collaboration with the WMS Council) https://news.csudh.edu/womens-studies/
• Planning Committee Participant for the CSUDH 5th Annual Women's Conference, March 1st, 2018
• Faculty Learning Community (FLC) Co-Leader for "Flipping the Classroom" - Spring 2017
• Chair of WSCAC, 2016 Task Force for Critical Thinking
• Chair of Philosophy Department, 2013 - (Jan.) 2016
• Professor in the HUX Program (M.A. in the Humanities External Degree Program) - 2022 - present
• SoCal Feminist Philosophy Salon, Co-Director, 2022- present