 Watch a video of Professor Oliver's lecture, "Women:
The Secret Weapon of Modern Warfare?"
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Kelly Oliver
W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies
Contact Information
Email: kelly.oliver@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 103 Furman Hall
Phone: (615) 343-0334
Fax: (615) 343-7259
Degrees
BA, Philosophy, and Communications, Gonzaga University, 1979
PhD, Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1987
Research Area
Period and Figures: 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, especially Nietzsche, and Contemporary French Philosophy, particularly Kristeva. Topics: Subjectivity, Language, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminism, Theories of Oppression, Film Theory.
Dr. Oliver's trajectory of research (pdf)
Current Research
My new book, entitled Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human, has just been published. There I analyze metaphors of animals and animality in the history of philosophy and contemporary Continental Philosophy.
Currently, I am working on a project entitled "Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood and Popular Culture."
Publications
Articles- Sexual Difference, Animal Difference: Derrida and Difference "Worthy of Its Name", Hypatia Vol. 24, no. 2, 2009.
- Technologies of Violence and Vulnerability.
- Witnessing Subjectivity.
- Response to Reviews of The Colonization of Psychic Space: Towards a Psychoanalytic Social Theory." in Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy, Vol. 4, no. 1, 2008.
- Stopping the Anthropological Machine: Agamben with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, PhaenEx 2, no. 2, 2007.
- Innocence, Perversion, and Abu Ghraib, Philosophy Today, Vol. 19, no. 53, 2007.
- Animal Pedagogy: The Origin of 'Man' in Rousseau and Herder. Culture, Theory & Critique, Vol. 47, no. 2, 2006.
- The Good Infection. parallax Vol. 11, no. 3, 2005
- Witnessing and Testimony. parallax. Vol. 10, no. 1, 2004.
Authored Books
- Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human, Columbia University Press, 2009. (click here for an interview that features Animal Lessons)
- Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media, Columbia University Press, 2007. (click here for an excerpt)
- The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression, University of Minnesota Press, Fall 2004.
- Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex and Maternity in Film Noir, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
- Witnessing: Beyond Recognition, University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
- Subjectivity Without Subjects, Rowman & Littlefield Press, 1998.
- Family Values: Subject Between Nature and Culture, Routledge Press, 1997.
- Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to the "Feminine", Routledge Press, 1995.
- Reading Kristeva. Indiana University Press, 1993.
Edited Books
- Recent French Feminism, Oxford University Press, Fall 2004.
- The Portable Kristeva, Columbia University Press, 2002.
- Between the Psyche and the Social, Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2002.
- The French Feminism Reader, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
- Enigmas: The Writing of Sarah Kofman, Cornell University Press, 1999.
- Feminist Interpretations of Nietzsche, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
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