Barbara Montero is an assistant professor at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center. Her research has focused on one or the other of two very different notions of body: body as the physical or material basis of everything, and body as the moving, breathing, flesh and blood instrument that we use when we run, walk, or dance. She has published articles in journals such as Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies and has been the recipient of a number of awards including a recent NEH Research Fellowship for her work on proprioception.