Abigail Gosselin is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy in Regis College. She is the author of Mental Patient: Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient’s Perspective (MIT Press, 2022), Humanizing Mental Illness: Enhancing Agency through Social Interaction (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), and Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility (Lexington 2009), as well as numerous papers in social philosophy. Recent publications include papers on mental illness stigma, implicit bias, injustices in the medicalization of mental disorders, the ethics of philosophizing from first-person experience, the difficulty of people with severe mental illness finding and keeping jobs, poverty and human rights, and narrative ethics. Dr. Gosselin teaches an array of courses in philosophy and in the Regis College Core, focusing on philosophical questions related to social issues. She incorporates service-learning and community-based learning in many of her classes. Some of Dr. Gosselin’s service activities have included being a co-president of the Regis College Faculty Senate, being a department chair, being a member (and chair) of the Regis College Committee on Rank and Tenure, and being a member (and chair) of the Regis College Faculty Handbook Committee. She is also actively involved with efforts to destigmatize mental illness on campus.
