Elizabeth Grosz
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Elizabeth A. Grosz is an Australian feminist academic living and working in the USA. She is known for philosophical interpretations of the work of French philosophers Jacques Lacan
, Jacques Derrida
, Michel Foucault
and Gilles Deleuze
, as well as her readings of the works of French feminists, Luce Irigaray
, Julia Kristeva
and Michele Le Doeuff. She has mainly written on questions of corporeality and their relations to the sciences and the arts.
She has held tenured positions at the University of Sydney
1978-1991, Monash University
1992-1998, SUNY Buffalo 1999-2001, Rutgers University
2002-2012, and Duke University
.
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...
, Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
, Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
and Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...
, as well as her readings of the works of French feminists, Luce Irigaray
Luce Irigaray
Luce Irigaray is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist. She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One .-Biography:...
, Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...
and Michele Le Doeuff. She has mainly written on questions of corporeality and their relations to the sciences and the arts.
She has held tenured positions at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
1978-1991, Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
1992-1998, SUNY Buffalo 1999-2001, Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
2002-2012, and Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
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Books
- Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists (1989)
- Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (1990)
- Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994)
- Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (1995)
- Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space (2001)
- The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely (2004)
- Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (2005)
- Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (2008)
- Becoming Undone. Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics and Art (2011)
Edited Books
- Feminist Challenges. Social and Political Theory (1986), co-edited with Carole PatemanCarole PatemanCarole Pateman is a British feminist and political theorist. She earned a DPhil at the University of Oxford. Since 1990, Professor Pateman has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles . In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the British Academy...
(as Elizabeth Gross) - Language, Semiotics, Ideology (1986), co-edited with Terry Threadgold, Gunter Kress and MAK Halliday
- Futur*Fall. Excursions into Postmodernity (1987), co-edited with Terry Threadgold, David Kelly and Alan Cholodenko
- Crossing Boundaries. Feminism and the Critique of Knowledges (1988), co-edited with Barbara Caine and Marie de Lepervanche
- Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism (1995), co-edited with Elspeth ProbynElspeth ProbynElspeth Probyn is the Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She received her Doctorate in Communications from Concordia University, 1989. She lectures and publishes in fields including cultural studies, media studies and sociology, with a particular focus on food,...
- Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures (1999)