 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 has just been been published, entitled Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media. There I analyze media images of women in the Iraq war, including the women involved in torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, Jessica Lynch, and women suicide bombers. One of my main arguments is that women are figured as both offensive and defensive weapons.
Currently, I am working on a book project on metaphors of animals and animality in the history of philosophy and contemporary Continental Philosophy. The main figures in that text will be Rousseau, Herder, Freud, Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and Derrida.
Publications
Articles- 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
- 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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