1. CURRICULUM VITAE: TINA CHANTER, 2016
Address: Kingston University, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Penrhyn Road,
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE.
Telephone: Office +44 (0) 208 417 2283
e-mail T.Chanter@Kingston.ac.uk
Education:
1981 - 87 State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, Ph.D. in Philosophy
Dissertation: "From Time to Time: Levinas and Heidegger"
Supervisor: David Allison. Graduate Assistantship 1981-83
1984 - 85 University of Sheffield, England: M. A. in Librarianship
1978 - 81 University of Essex, England: First Class B. A. Honors degree in Philosophy
Employment and Research Positions:
2015- Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Kingston University
2013 – 16 Head of the School of Humanities & Professor of Philosophy, Kingston University, Kingston.
2012 – 13 Visiting lecturer in Philosophy, University of West England, Bristol, U.K.
2001- Professor, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
2009-10 Interim Co-director of the Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) Program, DePaul University
2000-01 Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago.
2001 Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis
1995 -2000 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State
University)
1996 - 97 Visiting Scholar, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University
1993 - 95 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Memphis State University
1990 - 91 Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia, Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural
Change
1988 - 93 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Louisiana State University
1986 - 88 Lecturer II, Philosophy, Thames Polytechnic, London
And Part-Time Lecturer in Philosophy, University of London, Institute of Education
Also Tutor for the University of London, Extra-Mural Department (Adult-Education Center)
1985 - 86 Full-Time Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Essex, England
1981 - 83 Graduate Teaching Assistant, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook
Teaching Specializations:
Feminist Theory (Esp. Irigaray, Kristeva, Kofman). Recent French Philosophy (Esp. Levinas, Rancière)
Recent Continental Philosophy
Major Fellowships, Honors, and Accomplishments:
2010 Carol Cyganowski service award in recognition of my co-directorship of WGS, DePaul University.
2000 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award, Humanities, The University of Memphis.
1998 Short term Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Program, University of New South Wales, Australia
1991-2 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia, Center for Literary and Cultural Change.
1991-2 I was offered an Andrew B. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bryn Mawr.
Conference Organized: Spindel conference on Rethinking Sex and Gender, Memphis, September 26-28, 1996.
Conference Organized: New Imaginary Communities, DePaul University, Chicago, 2004.
The Year of Antigones, co-organizer. A year-long series of activities including a conference, 2007-8.

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Books: 1. Publications: Monographs
1. Ethics of Eros: Irigaray's Rewriting of the Philosophers (New York: Routledge, 1995)
2. Time, Death, and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001)
3. Gender, Key Concepts in Philosophy Series (New York: Continuum Press, 2006). Invited
4. The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish and the Nature of Difference (Indiana University Press, 2008)
5. Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery (SUNY, 2011).
Edited collections:
6. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Rethinking Sex and Gender, editor, Supplement, 1996.
7. Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas, ed., Rereading the Canon series (Pennsylvania State Press, 2001)
8. Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: Julia Kristeva, co-edited with Ewa Ziarek (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005)
9. Sarah Kofman’s Corpus, co-edited with Pleshette DeArmitt (Albany: SUNY Press, 2008)
10. The Returns of Antigone: Interdisciplinary Essays, co-edited with Sean Kirkland (SUNY Press, 2014).
Work in Progress:
11. Art, Politics and Rancière: Broken Perceptions (under advance contract with Bloomsbury, 2016)
SUNY Gender Theory Series (Series Editor):
I am the series editor of the “Gender Theory” Series for the State University of New York Press. To date 22 volumes
have appeared, and a further three are under contract, under review, or forthcoming. The series includes the selected
proceedings of the Irigaray circle.
1. Engendering Rationalities, ed. Nancy Tuana and Sandra Morgen, 2001.
2. Rosalyn Diprose, Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, 2002.
3. Sara Beardsworth, Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity, 2004.
4. Women and Children First, ed. Sharon Meagher and Patricia diQuinzio, 2005.
5. Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: Julia Kristeva, ed. Tina Chanter and Ewa Ziarek, 2005.
6. Robyn Ferrell, The Copula of Sexual Difference, 2006.
7. Lisa Guenther, Phenomenology and Birth, 2006. The Canadian Journal Symposium best book of the year.
8. Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, In-Between Bodies: Sexual Difference, Race, and sexuality, 2007.
9. Returning to Irigaray, ed. Maria Cimitile and Elaine Miller, 2007.
10. Living Attention: Teresa Brennan, ed. Alice Jardine, Kelly Oliver, and Shannon Lundeen, 2007.
11. Gender after Lyotard, ed. Margret Grebowicz, 2007.
12. Sarah Kofman’s Corpus, ed. Tina Chanter and Pleshette DeArmitt, 2008.
13. Imagining Law: On Drucilla Cornell, ed. Ben Pryor and Renee Heberle, 2008.
14. Penelope Ingram, The Signifying Body: Toward an Ethic of Sexual and Racial Difference, 2008.
15. Re-writing Difference: Luce Irigaray and ‘the Greeks,’ ed. Athena Athanasion and Eleni Varikas, 2010.
16. Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy, ed. Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Kathryn T.
Gines, and Donna-Dale Marcano, 2010.
17. Feminist Readings of Antigone, ed. Fanny Soderback, 2010.
18. Mary Beth Mader, Sleights of Reason, 2011.
19. Thinking with Irigaray, ed. Sabrina Hom, Serene Khader and Mary Rawlinson, 2011.
20. Ann Murphy, Violence and Vulnerability, 2012.
21. Virpi Lehtinen, Luce Irigaray’s Phenomenology of Feminine Being, 2014.
22. The Returns of Antigone: Interdisciplinary essays, ed. Tina Chanter and Sean D. Kirkland, forthcoming, 2014.
23. Janice McLane, Phenomenology of Victimhood and Gender, under advance contract.

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24. Sarah Hansen and Rebecca Tuvel, ed., New Forms of Revolt: Essays on Kristeva’s Intimate Politics (under
consideration).
Articles and book chapters:
1. Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone, ed., “Historicizing Feminist Aesthetics,” The Routledge
Companion to Feminist Philosophy, forthcoming.
2. “Seeing things that were not there before: Re-visioning Freud’s Oedipus, with a little help from Rancière,”
in Psychology and Its Others, ed. David Goodman, Duquesne University Press, forthcoming.
3. “Staging a conversation between Rancière and feminist theory,” Understanding Rancière, Understanding
Modernism, Ed. Patrick M. Bray, Bloomsbury, submitted, forthcoming.
4. “Is Antigone a Slave? Does Antigone stand or fall in relation to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic?” Invited
essay for Special issue of Paragraph devoted to Derrida’s Glas. Submitted.
5. “Unreliable witnesses: Silences Echoing within the signifying sites of ‘Mahipalpur’ and ‘Gujarat.’
Feminist Inscriptions in Social Theory, Anirban Das, Ritu Sen Chaudhur, forthcoming.
6. “The Returns of Antigone and the Remains of Antigone: To Bury or Not to Bury,” Occupy Antigone:
Tradition, Transition and Transformation in Performance, ed. Charlotte Gruber, Katharina Pewny, Luk
Van den Dries and Simon Leenknegt, Schriftenreihe Forum Modernes Theater series, forthcoming Autumn
2016.
7. Divya Dwivedi and Sanil V., ed., “The public, the private, and the aesthetic unconscious: reworking
Rancière”, Public Sphere from Outside the West, Bloomsbury, 2015, pp. 297-313.
8. “Restless Affects and Democratic doubts: A Response to Rachel Jones and Moira Fradinger” PhiloSophia:
A Journal of Continental Feminism, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 158-174. Invited response to essays by Jones
and Fradinger.
9. “Exhuming the Remains of Antigone’s Tragedy: The Encryption of Slavery”, Politics of
Religion/Religions of Politics ed. Alistair Welchman, Springer, 2014, pp. 143-170.
10. “‘Big Red Sun Blues’: intersectionality, temporality and the police order of identity politics,” Why Race
and Gender Still Matter: An Intersectional Approach, ed. Namita Goswami, Maeve O’Donovan and Lisa
Yount, Pickering and Chatto, 2014.
11. “Antigone as Fetish of Hegel and Seductress of Derrida in Glas”, Blackwell Companion to Derrida, ed.
Leonard Lawlor and Zeynep Direk, Wiley- Blackwell, 2014, pp. 378-390.
12. “Heidegger and Gender: An Uncanny Retrieval of Hegel’s Antigone,” Bloomsbury Companion to
Heidegger, ed. François Raffoul and Eric S. Nelson, 2013, pp. 441-49.
13. “‘What color is mythology?’ Antigone’s Achievement of Self-Consciousness Through a Failure to
Recognize the Humanity of Slaves”, Labrys (online journal, Brazil). Ed. Tania N. Swain. January 2013.

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14. “Antigone’s Exemplarity: Irigaray, Hegel, and Excluded Grounds as Constitutive of Feminist Theory,”
Thinking with Irigaray, ed. Mary C. Rawlinson, Sabrina L. Hom, Serene R. Khader, SUNY, 2011, pp. 265-
292.
15. “Picturing, Envisaging, or Imaging Humanity: Commentary on Kelly Oliver (Selected Studies in
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Volume 36), Philosophy Today, 55 (Supp), 32-42, 2011.
16. "Aesthetic Blindness: Levinas on the Ambiguous Temporality of Art, Politics and Purification," MonoKL,
Reflections On Levinas (Special Issue) Vol. 8-9, Fall 2010, Istanbul, pp. 512-531.
17. Interview on Levinas, MonoKL, Reflections On Levinas (Special Issue) Vol. 8-9, Fall 2010, Istanbul, pp.
68-638.
18. “The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in Ancient Greece and Modern South Africa,” Feminist
Readings of Antigone, ed. Fanny Soderback, SUNY Press, 2010, pp. 83-98.
19. “Antigone’s Other Legacy: Slavery and Colonialism in Tégonni: An African Antigone,” in Convergences:
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy, ed. Maria Guadalupe Davidson, Kathryn T. Gines, and
Donna Dale I. Marcano, SUNY Press, 2010, pp. 67-84.
20. “Antigone’s Liminality: Hegel’s Racial Purification of Tragedy and the Naturalization of Slavery,” Hegel’s
Philosophy and Feminist Thought – Beyond Antigone? ed. Kimberly Hutchings and Tuija Pulkkinen,
Palgrave Press, 2010, pp. 61-85.
21. “Antigone’s Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning,” in Interrogating Antigone in
Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, ed. Stephen Wilmer, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 19-47.
22. “Irigaray’s Challenge to the Fetishistic Hegemony of the Platonic One and Many,” in Re-writing
Difference: Luce Irigaray and ‘the Greeks,’ ed. Athena Athanasion and Eleni Varikas, Albany: SUNY
Press, 2010, pp. 217-229.
23. “A critique of Martín Alcoff’s Identity Politics: On Power and Universality,” Philosophy Today, SPEP
Supplement 2009: 44-58.
24. “Tales of Loss: Renegotiating the Boundary Between Mourning and Melancholia, where Art Unfolds
Abjection,” invited submission to a Special issue of Theory@buffalo on Aesthetics and Finitude, vol. 11,
2007: 44-76.
25. “Eating Dogs and Women: Abject Rules of Etiquette in 301/302,” Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary
Comportment, ed. Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz (Albany: SUNY, 2007) pp. 95-104.
26. “Hands that Give and Hands that Take: The Politics of the Other in Levinas,” Levinas, Law, Politics, ed.
Marinos Diamanitdes, London: Routledge/Cavendish, 2007, pp. 71-80.
27. “Antigone’s Excessive Relationship to Fetishism: The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Eros and Philia
from Ancient Greece to Modern South Africa,” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy.
Special issue on Feminist Perspectives on Eros, Guest editors Hasana Sharp and Chloe Taylor, Vol. 11, no.
2, Fall 2007.
28. “Abjection and the Constitutive Nature of Difference: Class Mourning in Margaret’s Museum and
Legitimating Myths of Innocence in Casablanca,” Special Issue of Hypatia, Feminist Epistemologies of
Ignorance, 21 (3) 2006: 86-106.

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29. “Hands that Give and Hands that Take: The Politics of the Feminine in Levinas,” in Difficult Justice:
Commentaries on Levinas and Politics, ed. Asher Horowitz and Gad Horowitz (Toronto University of
Toronto Press, 2006) pp. 48-62.
30. “Tragic Dislocations: Antigone’s Modern Theatrics,” Styles of Piety: Practicing Philosophy After the
Death of God, ed. S. Clark Buckner and Matthew Statler (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005).
Reprint from Differences, 10.1 (1998): 75-97.
31. “The Exoticization and Universalization of the Fetish, and the Naturalization of the Phallus: Abject
Objections,” Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s polis, ed. T. Chanter and
Ewa Ziarek (Albany: SUNY, 2005).
32. “Conditions: The Politics of Ontology and the Temporality of the Feminine,” Addressing Levinas, ed. Eric
Sean Nelson, Antje Kapust, and Kent Still, Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (Evanston:
Northwestern University, 2005) pp. 310-337.
33. “Ontological Difference, Sexual Difference, and Time,” Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments of
Leading Philosophers, Vol. IV: Beyond Levinas, ed. Claire Katz with Lara Trout (New York: Routledge,
2005), pp. 101-135. Reprint from Time, Death and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger (Stanford:
Stanford University Press) 2001, pp. 37-74.
34. “Traumatic Response: Levinas’s Legacy,” Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments of Leading
Philosophers, Vol. IV: Beyond Levinas, ed. Claire Katz with Lara Trout (New York: Routledge, 2005) pp.
400-413. Reprint from Philosophy Today, 41, Supplement (1997): 19-27.
35. “Abjection and Film: Displacing the Fetishistic, Racist Rhetoric of Political Projection,” Modernity and the
Problem of Evil, ed. Alan Schrift (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), pp. 112-131.
36. “The Picture of Abjection: Thomas Vinterberg’s The Celebration,” Parallax vol. 10, no. 1, 2004: 30–39.
37. “Kristeva and Levinas: Abjection and the Feminine,” Studies in Practical Philosophy, 4 (1), 2004: 54-70.
38. “Abjection or Why Freud Introduces the Phallus: Identification, Castration Theory and the Logic of
Fetishism,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 42 (Supplement), 2004: 48-66.
39. “Kristeva’s Ethics of Crisis: Art and Abjection, Love and Melancholia,” The Ethical: Blackwell Readings
in Continental Philosophy, ed. Edith Wyschogrod and Gerald P. McKenny (Blackwell: Oxford, 2003), pp.
119-145.
40. “Levinas, Time, and the Feminine,” Spanish Philosophy, ed. Mois Aés Barroso Ramos y David Pérez
Chico, Un libro de huellas Aproximaciones al pensamiento de Emmanuel Levinas (Editorial Anthropos:
Barcelona, 2004), pp. 235-269.
41. “Looking at Hegel’s Antigone through Irigaray’s Speculum,” in Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing
Boundaries, ed. Dorota Glowacka and Stephen Boos, (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002), pp. 29-48. Reprint of
Chapter 3 of Ethics of Eros, Routledge, 1995, pp. 108-26.
42. “The Problematic Normative Assumptions of Heidegger’s Ontology,” Feminist Interpretations of Martin
Heidegger, ed. Nancy Holland and Patricia Huntington (University College, Pennsylvania University Press,
2001), pp. 73-108.

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43. “The Trouble We (Feminists) Have Reasoning with our Mothers,” Review Essay, Continental Philosopy
Review, 33, 2000: 487-97.
44. “Abjection and Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir’s Legacy,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Quarterly
Journal of History, Criticism and Imagination, New Series, vol. 14, no. 2, 2000, pp. 38-55.
45. "Wild Meaning: Luce Irigaray's Reading of Merleau-Ponty,” Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of Flesh,
ed. F. Evans and L. Lawlor (Albany, SUNY Press), 2000, pp. 219-236.
46. “Gender Aporias,” Invited paper for the millennium issue of Signs: Journal of Women and Culture, vol. 25,
no. 4, Summer 2000: 1237-1241.
47. “Abjection, Death and Difficult Reasoning: The Impossibility of Naming Chora in Kristeva and Derrida,”
Special Issue on Derrida, Tympanum 4, July, 2000, http://www.usc.edu/tympanum/4/
48. “The Structure of the Gift,” co-authored with Cara Johnson, Special Issue on Derrida, Tympanum 4, July,
2000, http://www.usc.edu/tympanum/4/
49. "Heidegger's Understanding of the Aristotelian Concept of Time," Interrogating the Tradition:
Hermeneutics and the History of Philosophy, ed. Charles E. Scott, and John Sallis (Albany: SUNY Press,
2000), pp. 131-157.
50. “The Betrayal of Philosophy,” Budhi 3 (1) 1999: 31-48, reprint.
51. “Eating Words: Antigone as Kofman’s Proper Name,” Sarah Kofman, ed. Penelope Deutscher and Kelly
Oliver, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), pp. 189-202.
52. “Beyond Sex and Gender: On Luce Irigaray’s This Sex Which Is Not One,” The Body: Classic and
Contemporary Readings, ed. D. Welton (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), pp. 361-74.
53. “Levinas and Impossible Possibility: Thinking Ethics with Rosenzweig and Heidegger in the Wake of the
Shoah,” Research in Phenomenology, In Memoriam: Emmanuel Levinas, vol. xxviii, 1998: 91-110.
54. "Reading Hegel as a Mediating Master: Lacan and Levinas," The Missed Encounter: Levinas and Lacan,
ed. Sarah Harasym, (Albany: SUNY Press), pp. 1998, pp. 1-21.
55. “Giving Time and Death: Levinas, Heidegger, and the Trauma of the Gift,” Special Issue on Levinas: The
Face of the Other, Proceedings of The Fifteenth Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Center for
Phenomenology Center, Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, 1998, pp. 37-56.
56. “Tragic Dislocations: Antigone’s Modern Theatrics,” Differences 10.1 (1998): 75-97.
57. "The Temporality of Saying: Politics Beyond Ontological Difference" Special issue on Levinas, The
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 1998, pp. 503-28.
58. “Traumatic Response: Levinas’s Legacy,” Philosophy Today, SPEP edition Spring/Summer, 1998, pp. 9-
27.
59. “Neither Materialism nor Idealism: Levinas’s Third Way,” Postmodernism and the Holocaust, ed. Alan

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Milchman and Alan Rosenberg, Value Inquiry Book Series (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998), pp. 137-154.
60. "The Betrayal of Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas's Otherwise than Being," Philosophy and Social
Criticism, vol. 3, no. 6, 1997, pp. 65-79.
61. "On Not Reading Derrida's Texts: Mistaking Hermeneutics, Misreading Sexual Difference, and
Neutralizing Narration," Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman, ed. Ellen K. Feder,
Mary C. Rawlinson and Emily Zakin (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 87-113.
62. "Can the Phallus Stand, or Should it Be Stood up?,” Returns of French Freud, ed. Todd Dufresne (New
York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 43-65.
63. "Kristeva's Politics of Change: Tracking Essentialism with the Help of a Sex/Gender Map,” Ethics, Politics
and Difference in the Writings of Julia Kristeva, ed. K. Oliver (New York: Routledge), 1993, pp. 179-95.
64. "Metaphysical Presence: Heidegger on Time and Eternity," in Ethics and Danger: Currents in Continental
Thought, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, ed. C. Scott and A. Dallery,
(Albany: SUNY, 1992), pp. 125-38.
65. "Thinking Woman as Hegelian Other: Simone de Beauvoir's Legacy for Contemporary French Feminism,"
Ellipsis, vol. 1, no. 2, 1991, pp. 225-75.
66. "Antigone's Dilemma," in Re-reading Levinas, ed. R. Bernasconi and S. Critchley, (Bloomington, Indiana:
Indiana University Press, 1991), pp. 132-48. Translated into Turkish by Zeynep Direk in the journal Defter,
1997.
67. "Female Temporality and the Future of Feminism," in Abjection, Melancholia and Love: The Work of Julia
Kristeva, ed. J. Fletcher and A. Benjamin, Warwick Studies in Literature and Philosophy (London:
Routledge, 1990), pp. 63-79.
68. "Derrida and Heidegger: The Interlacing of Texts,” The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and its
Differences, ed. H. Silverman and G. Aylesworth (Albany: SUNY Press), 1990, pp. 61-8.
69. "The Alterity and Immodesty of Time," in Writing the Future, ed. A. Benjamin and D. Wood (London:
Routledge, 1990), pp. 137-54.
70. "Feminism and the Other," in Provocation of Levinas: Thinking the Other, ed. R. Bernasconi and D. Wood
(London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988), pp. 32-56.
71. "The Question of Death,” Irish Philosophical Journal, vol. 4, nos. 1 and 2, 1987, pp. 94-119.
Invited Papers:
1. “Who is the peasant woman wearing Van Gogh’s Old Shoes? Rancière Heidegger, Levinas on art, politics
and philosophy,” Heidegger in the Global Age Workshop, University of Sussex, 30 October, 2015.
2. “Bataille and Peignot: Response to keynote” at the Society for European Philosophy, SEP 3rd
-5th
September, 2015, Dundee.

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3. “Rancière, art, and Politics,” Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, 3rd
February, 2015.
4. “Is Antigone a Slave? Does Antigone stand or fall in relation to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic?” New
York, 14th
November, 2014.
5. “Broken Perceptions: thinking art, with Rancière, as a reframing of the world,” South Women London
Arstists, Conway Hall, 19th
November, 2014.
6. Rancière and art,” Sodertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, 21st
November 2014.
7. “Staging a conversation between Rancière and feminist aesthetics” invited contribution to a panel
organized by the Committee on the Status of Women, SPEP, New Orleans, 23rd-25th October 2014.
8. “Antigone as White Fetish of Hegel and Seductress of Derrida” LGS Summer Academy on Derrida’s Glas,
St. Martin’s UAL, London, 25 June, 2014.
9. Keynote “The Traumatic Real: Securing the Symbolic nation through the law of the veil,” Kristeva Circle,
Vanderbilt University, 29-30 March, 2014.
10. Keynote “The Returns of Antigone, and the Remains of Antigone: To bury or not to bury," Occupy
Antigone Conference, Research Center Studies in Performing Arts and Media (SPAM) at Ghent University,
Belgium, 18-19 March, 2014.
11. “The public, the private, and the aesthetic unconscious: reworking Rancière,” Anniversary celebration of
the Human Development Department, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, Department of Philosophy, 3
March, 2014.
12. “The public, the private, and the aesthetic unconscious: reworking Rancière,” in a series of Distinguished
Feminist Philosophy Lectures, Manchester Metropolitan University, Dept of Philosophy, 24th
February,
2014.
13. “Rancière, Politics, Art,” CRMEP, Kingston University, 16th
February, 2014.
14. Rancière, Politics and Art, University of Memphis, TN, USA, October, 2013.
15. Response to Scholar’s session devoted to my work at SPEP, Eugene, Oregon, 24-26 October, 2013.
16. “‘Without you I’m Nothing: Rancière, Feminist Art and European Masters of the Orient,” University of
Memphis, 11 October, 2013.
17. Keynote, “Visibility and Invisibility,” Psychology and its Others conference, October 4-6, Boston, 2013.
18. “For Reference Only: In conversation,” Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London, 20th
June, 2013.
19. Keynote, “Silences, Absences, Invisibility: Art, Politics, Gender, Race,” University of Helsinki, 5th
Christina conference, 23rd May, 2013.
20. Keynote, On Wisdom, Love, and Knowledge, University of Buffalo, NY, April 27th
, 2013.
21. Panel in honor of David Allison, Alumni Conference, SUNY at Stony Brook, April 26th
, 2012.

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22. Keynote “Framing Bodies: Silences Echoing within the signifying sites of “Mahipalpur” and “Gujarat.”
Univeristy of West Bengal, Calcutta, India, 21st
– 22nd
Feb, 2013.
23. Response to Debra Bergoffen on Antigone, SPEP/APA session, December, 2012.
24. “Abjection and Fetishism: A retrospective glance back at The Picture of Abjection,” 15th
November, 2012.
25. “Rethinking Earth and World: Rancièrian Critique of Heidegger on Art,” Kalamazoo, 16th November,
2012.
26. Rancière and Levinas on Art and Politics, Invited Panel, IAPL, Tallinn University, Estonia, 28th
May 5th
,
2012.
27. Keynote, “The Sensibility of Art,” Engendering Dialogue: Seeing Things Differently: Art, Philosophy, and
the Futures of Feminism, Dundee Contemporary Arts and the University of Dundee, 30th
March, 2012,
28. “Levinas and Ranciere on Art and Politics,” Invited APA panel on “The work of Emmanuel Levinas,”
Washington DC, 28 December, 2011.
29. Faculty Research Seminar on Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery, DePaul University,
Department of Philosophy, 11 February, 2011.
30. “How we Picture or Envisage Humanity: Giving Face to Theory,” Scholar’s session on Kelly Oliver, SPEP,
Montreal, November 6, 2010.
31. “Agamben, Irigaray, and Antigone,” Conference on Eros at Nipissing University, Bracebridge, Ontario,
campus, Canada, May 21-22, 2010.
32. “Who Owns Antigone? And what if Oedipus and Polynices had been slaves?” New School for Social
Research, Department of Philosophy, April 1, 2010.
33. “Kinship Lines Extending from Antigone,” Philosophia: Feminist Philosophy Conference, John Jay
College, New York, March 25, 2010.
34. ”Art, tragedy, Philosophy,” Conference on the work of Simon Critchley University of Texas, San Antonio,
Feb 1, 2010.
35. “Antigone’s Affects: What if Oedipus or Polynices were Slaves?” Sydney, Australia, December, 2009.
36. “The Ambiguous Time of Art: Levinas on Aesthetics and Politics,” Keynote, ASCP, Melbourne,
Australia, November, 2009.
37. Current research session on The Picture of Abjection, Oct 2009, SPEP, Washington DC.
38. “Antigone’s Affects: Political Legacies,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Italy, July 2009.
39. Invited Speaker, Respondent to Paul Gilroy, IAPL, London, 6 June 2009.

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40. Invited Speaker, “Antigone’s Political Legacies: If Oedipus or Polynices had been Slaves . . .” Relocating
Ethics: Summer Symposium of Literature and Theory, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden, 2 June, 2009.
41. “Antigone and the Naturalization of Slavery: Race, Class and Gender in Hegel’s Reading of Tragedy,”
Philosophia: a Feminist Society, New York City, 27-29 May, 2009.
42. “Antigone’s Affects: Political Legacies,” Texas A&M University, Women’s Studies Twentieth
Anniversary Distinguished Speakers Series, 21, April 2009.
43. “Levinas, Art and Film,” School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 16 March, 2009.
44. Respondent to Philippe Van Haute, “Disposition, Trauma, History: How Oedipal Was Dora?” DePaul
University, 20, Feb, 2009.
45. “Levinas, Art and Feminism,” Film Studies, Vanderbilt University, Feb 16, 2009.
46. Respondent to Linda Alcoff, Current Research Panel, SPEP, Pittsburgh, Oct 15-17, 2008.
47. “Levinas, Art and the Sacred,” Keynote speaker, National Association for Levinas Studies, Seattle,
August 31, 2008.
48. “Exempting Antigone from Ancient Greece: Multiplying and Racializing Genealogies with Tegonni: An
African Antigone,” Philosophia, Decatur, Georgia, 19-22 March, 2008.
49. « Les héritages politiques d'Antigone: L'abjection comme défi au deuil » Department of Philosophy,
University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, 14 March, 2008.
50. The Political Legacies of Antigone,” Dept of Philosophy and Unit for Criticism, University of Champagne-
Urbana, 11 March, 2008.
51. “Levinas’s Other Others,” Film Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 25 Feb 2008.
52. “Exempting Antigone,” Keynote at graduate conference, University of Memphis, 15 Feb 2008.
53. “Agamben and Irigaray: on the possibility of fetishizing the state of exception,” on the panel Irigaray and
Psychoanalysis, MLA, Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, 30 December, 2007.
54. “Relations of Negativity: Derrida, Animality and Sexual Difference,” SPEP Session, APA response to
Kelly Oliver, Baltimore, 28 Dec 2007.
55. “The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in ancient Greece and modern South Africa” on the
panel “The Pertinence and Impertinence of Antigone,” SPEP, Chicago, November, 2007.
56. “Antigone’s Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning,” French Feminism Circle, SPHS,
Chicago, November, 2007.
57. “Abjection as the unthought ground of fetishism,” IAPL, Plenary panel on Kristeva, University of Nicosia,
Cyprus, 4-9 June, 2007.
58. “Antigone’s Melancholic Affect: Anger Becomes Her,” Philosophy’s Moods: An Exploration of the
Affective Dimension of Thinking, University of Tel Aviv, Israel, May 27-30, 2007.

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59. “The Political Legacies of Antigone,” French Feminism Conference, 17-20 May, 2007, Tennessee.
60. “Antigone’s Excess of Love: ‘My nature is to love and not to hate,’” A feminist symposium on Eros,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada April 27, 2007.
61. Chair of panel at Central APA. 9-12 noon, Session IV-G, 21 April 2007.
62. “Antigone’s Excessive Relationship to Fetishism: The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Eros and
Philia,” Department of Philosophy, Kennesaw University, 19 April, 2007.
63. Keynote speaker at the Great Lakes College Association First Annual Undergraduate Conference on
Tragedy and Philosophy, Earlham College, April 7, 2007.
64. “Tales of Loss: renegotiating the boundary between mourning and melancholia, where art unfolds
abjection” SUNY Buffalo, March 8, 2006.
65. Presentation based on Gender (Continuum, 2006) to an English class in feminist theory at Chicago State
University, for which the book was adopted as a text book, 8 November, 2006.
66. Invited paper: “Antigone’s Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning,” Interrogating Antigone,
Organized by Steven Wilmer, Director of the School of Drama, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 6-7
October 2006.
67. SPEP, response to Elaine Miller on Irigaray and Madonna, Villanova, October, 2006.
68. Keynote Speaker, “Antigone’s Exemplarity: Irigaray, Hegel and Excluded Grounds as Constitutive of
Feminist Theory,” Inaugural Irigaray circle conference, SUNY at Stony Brook, Manhattan Center, 22-23
September, 2006.
69. “Time Flows, and Film: Levinas, Kristeva, Deleuze,” Levinas and Film conference, organized by Sarah
Cooper, Film Studies, King’s College, London. Held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies,
London, England, May 19, 2006.
70. “Kristeva, abjection and class mourning,” Keynote speaker, undergraduate conference, Webster
University, St. Louis, April, 2006.
71. “Abjection and the Constitutive Nature of Difference: Legitimating Myths of Innocence in Casablanca,”
Department of Philosophy, Miami University, Ohio, November 18, 2005.
72. Commentary on Sara Beardsworth’s Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity, SPEP, Salt Lake City,
October 20, 2005.
73. “Race, Class and Gender: Questioning the Logic of Intersectionality,” Feminism over Three Decades, APA
Central Division, Chicago, at the Palmer House Hilton, Thursday, April 28, through Saturday, April 30,
2005.
74. “Abjection and the Constitutive Nature of Difference: Legitimating Myths of Innocence in Casablanca,”
Northern Illinois University, April 22, 2005.

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75. “Hands that Give and Hands that Take: The Politics of the Other,” International Conference on Emmanuel
Levinas (1906-1995), Loyola College, Maryland, April 1-2, 2005.
76. “The Exoticization and Universalization of the Fetish, and the Naturalization of the Phallus: Abject
Objections” The New School for Graduate Research, New York, March 16, 2005.
77. “Form and Rhetoric: Thinking Beyond the Hegemony of the One with Luce Irigaray,” Philosophizing with
Luce Irigaray, University of Helsinki, Finland, February 28 – March 2nd 2005.
78. Respondent to Mary Beth Mader and Sara Beardsworth, APA Panel: Continental Philosophy and the
Discourse of Sexuality, Boston, 30 December, 2004. APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession. Paper titles: “Deleuze, et cetera: Sexuality and the
Ontology of Repetition,” “Myth, Demystification, and the Future of an Illusion.”
79. “Abjection: Film and the Constitutive Nature of Difference,” Panel on Race and Feminism organized by
the Committee on the Status of Women and the Diversity Committee, SPEP, Memphis, 28-30, October,
2004.
80. “Receiving Luce Irigaray: Intellectual Itineraries, Historical Contexts,” Keynote Speaker, Luce Irigaray
and ‘the Greeks’: Genealogies of Re-Writing, Columbia University, 1-3 October, 2004.
81. “Hands that Give and Hands that Take: The Politics of the Other,” Levinas and the Political Conference,
Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, 14-17 May, 2004.
82. “At the Limits of Discourse,” Response to Ewa Ziarek, An Ethics of Dissensus, Syracuse, May, IAPL 2004.
83. “The Unconscious Racism of Feminist Theory,” Eastern APA, Chicago, 23 April, 2004.
84. “The Exoticization and Universalization of the Fetish, and the Naturalization of the Phallus: Abject
Objections,” Comparative Literature Program, State University of New York, Buffalo, April, 2004.
85. Continental Philosophy Conference, Plenary Speaker, University of Toledo, April 2-3, 2004.
86. Abjection and the Constitutive Nature of Difference: Class Mourning in Margaret’s Museum, Plenary
Speaker, Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance Conference, Penn State University, 24-25 March, 2004.
87. Respondent to Current Research Panel (devoted to Time, Death and the Feminine), SPEP, Boston,
November 6-8, 2003.
88. “Thinking the Specular in a Crises-Ridden Era,” Spindel Conference, Kristeva’s Ethical and Political
Thought, September 18-20, 2003.
89. “Plato’s Cave and Film Theory,” Stony Brook Alumni Conference, SUNY. Stony Brook, NY, 9-11
October, 2003.
90. “Fetishism and Political Projection,” Teresa Brennan Memorial Conference, Stony Brook Manhattan
Center, New York, 3 October, 2003.
91. Alterity and Sex/Gender: Phenomenological Reflections in Ethics, Feminist Conference, Basel University,
Switzerland, 13-14 June, 2003.

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92. Response to a paper on Foucault, Central APA, Cleveland, 23-25 April, 2003.
93. University of California, Irvine, Conference on the Trace, 10-12 April, 2003.
94. Faculty Seminar, DePaul University, 21st
February (or March 7) 2003.
95. “Abjection and Film: The Constitutive Nature of Race, Sex, and Class Difference,” “Post-Phenomenology:
What’s Next?” Veroni Memorial Lectures in Philosophy and the Humanities (with symposiasts Don
Ihde and Thomas Flynn), Department of Philosophy, Kent State University, Ohio, March 1, 2003.
96. Response to Debra Bergoffen, Scholar’s Session, SPEP, Loyola University, Chicago, October 10-12, 2002.
97. “Levinas’s Forgetful Feminization of Heidegger’s Ontology: Rethinking Time and Being,” Levinas and the
Political, University of Toronto, September 20-22, 2002.
98. “Kristeva and Levinas: Abjection and the Feminine,” American Psychological Association, Chicago, 25
August, 2002.
99. “Objects of Desire,” DePaul University, Honors program, 30 January, 2002.
100.“Film theory and Feminism,” Notre Dame University, Indiana, 15 November, 2001.
101.“Levinas and Feminism,” Philosophy Department, Northwestern University, Chicago, 3 November, 2001.
102.“Abject Images: Kristeva, Art, and Third Cinema,” Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 29 October 2001.
103.“Playing with Fire: Freud and Kofman on Being Jewish, Feminine and Homosexual,” Sarah Kofman’s
Corpus, DePaul University, 12 October, 2001.
104.“Abject Images: Kristeva, Art, and Third Cinema,” SPEP, Goucher College, Baltimore, 3-7 October, 2001.
105.“On Negativity: Kristeva’s Revolution in Poetic Language,” Invited presentation at select seminar, Notre
Dame, March 22-23, 2001.
106.“Film, abjection, Kristeva,” Keynote Speaker at graduate student conference, Villanova University, March
30-31, 2001.
107.“Viewing Abjection: Film and Social Justice,” Panel Presentation with Ann Murphy and Athena Colman
on “Aspects of Identity in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game,” Society for Phenomenology and Media,
National University, La Jolla, CA, March 22-24, 2001.
108.“Abjection and Film: Race/Gender/Class/Nation in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game,” Irvine University,
March 21, 2001.
109.Invited paper on French Philosophy on the panel “Ethics, Plato, Literature,” MLA. December 29, 2000,
Washington D.C.
110.“Feminism and the Academy,” presenstation at the DePaul University Women’s Studies Retreat, 4
November, 2000, Chicago.
111.Respondent to Cynthia Willett, SPEP, Penn State University, Oct, 2000.

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112.Viewing Abjection: Film and Social Justice,” Fourth International Feminist Conference, Bologna, Italy,
Sept 28-Oct 1, 2000. Invited by Rosi Braidotti.
113.Panel Organizer and contributor, “Democracy and the Politics of Difference: Contesting Boundaries,” at
the IAPL, SUNY at Stony Brook, 9-13 May, 1999.
114.Invited speaker, “Abjection and Ambiguity: The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir,” “Simone de Beauvoir:
Fifty Years after The Second Sex,” De Paul University, 19-20 March, 2000
115.“The Structure of the Gift Relation,” Co-presenter with Cara Johnson, Annual collaborative conference,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2 March, 2000.
116.“The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir,” Plenary Speaker, Women’s Studies Program, Pennsylvania State
University, 19-20 November, 1999.
117.“Conditions: The Time of Ontology and the Politics of the Feminine,” Philosophy and Literature Ph.D.
program, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 28 October, 1999.
118.“Conditions: The Time of Ontology and the Politics of the Feminine,” Addressing Levinas, Plenary
Speaker, Conference at Emory University, Atlanta, 15-16 October, 1999.
119.Respondent on Current Research Panel: Penelope Deutscher, Yielding Gender, SPEP, Eugene, Oregon, 5-7
October, 1999.
120.Respondent to Julia Kristeva’s “Heidegger and Arendt,” Plenary Session, IAPL .Trinity College, Hartford,
CT, 11-15 May, 1999.
121.“The Picture of Abjection,” Invited paper for the IAPL Executive Panel, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 11-
15 May, 1999.
122.“Myths of Origins,” The Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, University of Memphis, 21 February,
1999.
123.APA, Invited session on Simone de Beauvoir: “The Myth of Gender and the Phallus,” 27 December 1998.
124.“Myths of Origin: Sexual, Racial, and Social Justice,” Panel on Visions of Resistance: Post-modern
Feminism and The Question of Materialism,” Radical Philosophy Conference, San Francisco State
University, 5-8 November 1998.
125.Finland: Body and Theory Summer School, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of
Jyväskylä, Finland, 20-23 August, 1998.
126.“Abjection and Catharsis: Waves and Museums,” University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 22 August, 1998.
127.Seminar on the Origins of Philosophy: “Myths of Origin: Social, Sexual, Racial Justice,” University of
Helsinki, Finland, 25 August, 1998.
128. Short term visiting humanities fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of New South
Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia: Six week lecture tour, 7 July-17 August, 1998:

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129.Keynote speaker, “Abjection and Catharsis: Waves and Museums,” Women in Philosophy conference,
Macquarrie University, Sydney, 14 July, 1998.
130. “Myths of Origins: Social, Sexual, Racial Justice,” Australian Society for Continental Philosophy, Sydney
University, Australia,17 July, 1998.
131.Keynote speaker “Eating Words: Antigone as Kofman’s Proper Name,” Psychoanalysis and the Politics of
Difference Conference, The Brisbane Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, Brisbane, Australia, 31 July-
2 August, 1998.
132.Postgraduate Workshop: Philosophy, Tragedy and Women as Outsiders, UNSW, Sydney, Australia,
August 3, 1998.
133.Postgraduate Workshop: Time: Levinas and Heidegger, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, August 7 1998.
134.“Myths of Origins” Faculty Seminar, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 11 August,
1998.
135.“Tragic Dislocations: Antigone’s Modern Theatrics,” Research Institute for the Humanities and Social
Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia, 12 August, 1998.
136.“Eating Words: Antigone as Kofman’s Proper Name,” Women’s Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Social
Sciences and the Arts, University of Tasmania, 14 August, 1998.
137.“Abjection and Catharsis: Literature Film and Women’s Bodies,” joint presentation with Stacy Keltner,
Rhodes College Philosophy Club, April 22 1998.
138.“Kristeva’s notion of Abjection: A Reading of ‘Margaret’s Museum’ and ‘Breaking the Waves,’” Honi L.
Haber Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Colorado, Denver, April 20, 1998.
139.“Abject Bodies and Love,” Purdue University, April 4, 1998, The Future of Feminist Ethics.
140.“Love’s Impossibility,” Pacific APA, LA, March 25-8, 1998.
141.“Time and Responsibility: From Heidegger to Levinas,” Paper in collaboration with Jay Julien at a
conference on Phenomenology and the Other, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, March 19, 1998.
142.Keynote speaker at Transforming Traditions, Graduate Student Conference at SUNY at Stony Brook, New
York, March 6-8, 1998.
143.Keynote speaker “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” “Kristeva’s Joyous Nativities in Tales of Love,”
Brock University, Canada, November 7-8, 1997.
144.Comment on Christine James, “Hegel, Harding, and Objectivity,” Southwestern Philosophical Society,
Memphis, October 31- November 2, 1997.
145.“A Gifted Reading : Debra Bergoffen, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered
Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities, SPEP, Current Research Panel, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
October 16-18, 1997.
146.“Death and Difficult Reasoning: Kristeva’s Chora,” Executive Panel, IAPL, University of South Alabama,

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Mobile, 6-10 May, 1997
147.“Tragic Dislocations: Antigone’s Modern Theatrics,” Department of English, University of Notre Dame,
March 20, 1997.
148.“Tragic Dislocations: Antigone’s Modern Theatrics,” Styles of Piety, one of four invited speakers,
Vanderbilt University, March 21-22, 1997.
149.“Tragic Dislocations: Antigone’s Modern Theatrics,” Babson College, 22 April, 1997.
150.“Tragic Dislocations: Antigone’s Modern Theatrics,” “Around Antigone: Film, Literature and
Psychoanalysis,” Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and
Culture, SUNY Buffalo, April 11-12, 1977.
151.“Levinas and Heidegger: Giving Time and Death,” one of four invited speakers, Simon Silverman Center
for Phenomenology conference on Levinas: The Face of the Other, Duquesne University, 7-8 March
1997.
152.“Levinas and Heidegger: Giving Time and Death,” Department of Philosophy, New School for Social
Research, New York, February 12th, 1997.
153.“Levinas and Heidegger: Giving Time and Death,” Department of Philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook,
February 12th, 1997.
154.“Levinas and Heidegger: Giving Time and Death,” Department of Philosophy, Miami University, Ohio, 31
January, 1997.
155.Respondent to a paper on Levinas and Ricoeur, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division,
Atlanta, 28-30 December, 1996.
156."Heidegger, Levinas, and the Gift of Death," The Centre for Modern European Philosophy, "The Time
of Philosophy: Temporality and Metaphysics after Kant and Hegel," Middlesex University, London,
England, 23 November, 1996.
157.Lecture on Levinas's "And God Created Woman" The Yakar Study Center, London, 18 November, 1996.
158."Rethinking Sex and Gender," University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 28 October, 1996. Also presented
at the University of Memphis, prior to the Spindel conference.
159.Plenary Session speaker, Levinas: In Memorium, "Traumatic Response: Levinas's Legacy," SPEP,
Washington DC, 10-12 October, 1996.
160."The Trauma of the Gift: Giving Time and Death," Wisdom, Montana, 24 June, 1996.
161."Take the Gift of Death," Conference on The Gift, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, 16-19 May,
1996.
162."The Invisible Offense of History: Levinas" Dramas of Culture, IAPL, George Mason University, Fairfax,
Virginia, 8-11 May, 1996.

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163.Keynote Speaker, "Impossible Possibility," Ethics After the Holocaust conference, University of Oregon,
6-8 May, 1996.
164."Beyond Sex and Gender," The Gendered Body, School of Art, University of Memphis, 29 March, 1996.
165.Panel organizer for a conference on Openings at Vanderbilt University, Jan 26-28, 1996.
166.Guest speaker at Villanova University Feminist Theory series, "Can the Phallus Stand, or Should it Be
Stood up?," Department of Philosophy, October 27, 1995.
167."Time and the Instant: Derrida, Levinas, and Heidegger," Department of Philosophy, Northwestern
University, Chicago, 19 October, 1995.
168.Respondent at the Current Research Panel on Ethics of Eros, SPEP, De Paul University, Chicago, 12-15
October, 1995. Book Nominated for Discussion.
169.Keynote speaker at the Merleau-Ponty Circle, "Wild Meaning: Irigaray's Reading of Merleau-Ponty,"
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 21-23 September 1995.
170.Invited Lecture course on Heidegger on Aristotle on Time, with John Ellis, at the Collegium
Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, 31 July - August, 1995.
171."The Ontological Status of Sexual Difference," A Dieu: Theology and Philosophy in Heidegger, Derrida,
Levinas, conference, SUNY Buffalo, 7-8 April, 1995.
172."Bodies: the Other of Feminist Theory" "Embodiment" panel, APA, Pacific Division, San Francisco,
March 30, 1995.
173."Reconsidering Sex and Gender," Millsaps College, Mississippi, February 7, 1995.
174.Respondent to Andrew Cutrofello, "The Problematic of the Givenness of Others in Contemporary French
Thought," APA, Eastern Division, Boston, December 29, 1994.
175."Questioning Sexual Difference: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Sex/Gender Motif in Feminist
Theory," Phenomenological Feminism Research Symposium, Center for Advanced Research in
Phenomenology, Florida Atlantic University, 17-19 November, 1994.
176."Gender and Objectivity," Marcus Orr Humanities Center, University of Memphis, 9 November, 1994.
177.Response to Morny Joy, "Levinas, the feminine, and Women," SPEP, Seattle, October, 1994.
178."Recent Feminist Theories: Essentialism and the Sex/Gender Distinction," Pennsylvania State University,
November 4, 1993.
179."Levinas's Conception of the Feminine Other: The Eclipse of Eros and the Emergence of the Maternal,"
Rice University, Houston, October 29, 1993.
180.Response to Rudolf Bernet, Spindel Philosophy Conference, Memphis, October 1-2, 1993.
181.Response to the panel "Expressivity as Discursive Frame of Visibility," at the I.A.P.L., Duquesne

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University, Pittsburgh, May 13 1993.
182."Pornography and Essentialism," Memphis State University, Symposium on New Currents in Feminist
Theory, April 18, 1993.
183."Hegel's Antigone: The Irony of Ethical Women," Modern Language Association, New York, December
29, 1992.
184."Kristeva's Politics of Change: Tracking Essentialism with the Help of a Sex/Gender Map," Buffalo Theory
Group, Eugenio Donato Chair Lecture, Comparative Literature Program, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, February
14, 1992.
185."Metaphysical Presence: Heidegger on Time and Eternity," Department of Philosophy, University of Rhode
Island, January 28, 1992 (Also presented at SPEP, 1989).
186."The Imperialism of the Same: Irigaray, Hegel, and Women," Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia,
Italy, July 30, 1991.
187.Respondent to Professor Vincent Crapanzano's lecture "The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody,
Memory," Department of Anthropology, Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Virginia, April 23
1991.
188."Sex and Gender Re-visited," Hollins College, Virginia, April 11, 1991.
189."Is Gender Knowledged? Or, Do we Know what Gender is?," Closing paper of the Seminar "Is Knowledge
Gendered?," Center for Literary and Cultural Change, (CCLCC), University of Virginia, February 25,
1991.
190."Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own," Book Discussion Series, Jefferson-Madison Public Library,
Charlottesville, Virginia, February 17 1991.
191."The Nature of Knowledge: The Knower, the Known, and the Unknown," Opening paper of the seminar "Is
Knowledge Gendered?," Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change (CCLCC), University of
Virginia, January 21, 1991.
192."Levinas's Philosophy of Desire", University of Virginia, Department of Philosophy Colloquium,
November 14, 1990.
193."The Legacy of Simone De Beauvoir," Collegium Phaenomenologicum, "Phenomenology, Ethics,
Politics: The Question of Difference/Unity", Perugia, Italy, July/Aug, 1990.
194."Pornographic Images of Women and Feminist Art: Questions of Strategy and Style," LSU Women's
Studies Seminar, February 14 1990.
195."Is there a Specifically Feminine Identity?," Memphis State University, March 21, 1989.
196."Heidegger and Temporality", Dension University, Ohio, February, 1988.
197."Pornography and Representation", Seminar on Pornography, University of London, February, 1988.

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198."Death and the Ethical Relation", Oxford University German Philosophy Society, Oxford, England,
December, 1986.
199."Abortion--the Coherence of Arguments For and Against", Day Seminar on Abortion, University of
London, November 1986.
200."Derrida's Discussion of Aristotle in Heidegger's Early Work", Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia,
Italy, July 1986.
Conference Presentations
1. “On affect and Narrative,” Society of European Philosophy, SEP, Dundee, 3rd-5th September 2015.
2. “A Politics of Spacing, interruption and Contingency: fleeting communities and their temporality,”
Narrative conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 30th
June, 2013 Manchester, UK.
3. “The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in ancient Greece and modern South Africa,” on the
panel The Pertinence and Impertinence of Antigone, Chicago, SPEP, 8-10, November, 2007.
4. “Abject Images: Kristeva, Art and Third Cinema,” on the panel “Narcissism and Abjection: Political and
Psychic Crises in Kristeva’s Work,” SPEP, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, October, 4-6, 2001.
5. “Abject Bodies and Social Justice,” Panel on The Social and Political Thought in Kristeva’s Later Writings,
SPEP, University of Colorado, Denver, 8-10 October, 1998.
6. "Heidegger and Irigaray: Being and Sexual Difference," SPEP, New Orleans, October 21-23, 1993. Also
read at Louisiana State University, at the Louisiana Philosophy Convention, 24 October, 1993.
7. "Reading Irigaray and Kristeva Through Derrida and Levinas," conference at the University of California,
Berkeley, San Francisco, May 2, 1992.
8. "The Contested Site of the Body: In Memory of Linda Singer," Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP)
Panel, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, December 28, 1991.
9. “The Deconstruction of Time: A Discussion," Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy
(SPEP), Memphis, October 27, 1991.
10. "Changing Styles of Feminism," International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL),
University of Montreal, Canada, May 16, 1991.
11. A Reading of a Play by Carolyn Gage, "Louise May Incest," performed with Erin Rice, SWIP, University
of Southern Maine, April 13, 1991.
12. "Pornographic Images of Women: Questions of Style and Strategy," on the panel "Sexual Difference and
the Problem of Essentialism" SPEP, October 11-13 1990, Villanova University, Philadelphia.
13. "Taking Risks: Feminism and Femininity," on the panel "Advancing or Retreating? Themes of Power and
Powerlessness within Contemporary Feminisms," Fourth International Interdisciplinary Congress on
Women, Hunter College, New York, June, 3-7, 1990.

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14. "A Risky Business: Facing Feminism with Kristeva", invited paper on the Panel "Foreign Bodies: From
Levinas to Kristeva," IAPL, University of California, Irvine, April, 26-28, 1990.
15. "Simone de Beauvoir and French Feminism," Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, March 19, 1990.
16. Presentation at the AAUW/LSU conference "What Does a Louisiana Woman Need to Know?", Subject:
Women and Sexual Violence, March 24, 1990.
17. "Metaphysical Presence: Heidegger on Time and Eternity," SPEP, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,
October 12-14, 1989.
18. Moderator of Paper on "Heidegger and the Idea of the Good," International Conference on Heidegger,
Loyola University, Chicago, September 21-4, 1989.
19. "The Impossible Task of Parmenides: A Reading Informed by Derrida and Heidegger," IAPL, Emory
University, 4-7, May, 1989.
20. Chair of Current Research panel, SPEP, Chicago, October, 1988.
21. "Feminism and the Nature/Culture distinction," Beyond Translation Conference, University of Warwick,
England, July, 1988.
22. "Derrida on Levinas and the Feminine," Levinas conference, University of Essex, May, 1987.
23. "The Time of the I and the Time of the Other," Irish Philosophical Society, Dublin, Ireland, May 1987.
24. "The Alterity and Immodesty of Time," IAPL, University of Warwick, July, 1986.
25. "Julia Kristeva's Conception of Feminist History," Radical Philosophy Conference, London, November,
1986.
26. "Feminism and the Other," Warwick Workshop in Continental Philosophy, Warwick University, July,
1983.
Professional Organizations:
American Philosophical Association
Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy
International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Society for Women in Philosophy
Professional work outside the University (selected):
Reader for Hypatia
Reader for Annals of Scholarship
Reader for Philosophy Today
Assistant Editor of The Southern Journal of Philosophy
Member of the Editorial Board for the Levinas Yearbook
Advisory Board, Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy

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Editorial Board, Continental Philosophy Review
Editorial Board, Continental Philosophy, Ashgate Publishers
Reader for Stanford University Press
Reader for Northwestern University Press
Reader for State University of New York Press
Reader for Penn State University Press
Reader for Routledge
Reader for University of Chicago Press
Reader for Polity Press
Advisor for University of Texas Press
External Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis in English at the University Of Western Ontario, Canada
External Examiner for 2 Ph.D. theses in Philosophy at Sydney University, Australia
External Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis in Philosophy Macquarrie University, Sydney, Australia
External Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis in Philosophy at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
External Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis in Philosophy at Duquesne University
External Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis in Philosophy at the University of Memphis
External Examiner for a Ph.D thesis in Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada
External Examiner for a PhD thesis, SUNY, Stony Brook (2)
External Examiner for a Ph.D thesis in Sociology, Macquarrie University, Sydney, Austrialia
External Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis, University of Western Calcultta, India
External Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis, University of Ludwig Maximilian Univ. Munich, Germany
Voted onto the Committee on the Status of Women, SPEP
Current Research Committee, SPEP
Review of promotion to Full Professor, Penn State Uniersity
Review of promotion to Full Professor, Northwestern University
Review of promotion to Full Professor, Ohio State University, Women’s Studies
Review of tenure, Yale University, Comparative Literature
External Reader for Psychology Ph.D. DePaul University
External Examiner for Ph.D. thesis, New School of Social Research (2)
Yale University, letter of promotion for candidate to Associate Professor, English Department
University Committee and Interdepartmental Work: Selected
Budget committee
Global an Transnational Committee, DePaul University
Department Committee for the formulation of a Handbook
Faculty Governance Council
Women’s and Gender Studies Core Advisory Board
Women’s and Gender Studies Personnel committee
Women’s Studies Accreditation Program Review Committee
Steering Committee for the Women’s Research Forum
Graduate Affairs Committee
Appointed to the Executive Committee of Women's and Gender Studies 1993
Women's and Gender Studies Committee Work:
Sub-committee on Research on Gender Studies
Sub-committee on Course Guidelines
Sub-committee on Awards
Sub-committee on Feminist Theory Course Proposal
Core Faculty member of Comparative Literature Ph.D Program
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, University of Memphis
Task force for M.A. in Women’s Studies, University of Memphis

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Undergraduate Adviser, University of Memphis
Faculty Senate, University of Memphis
Committee to Evaluate the Department Chair
Graduate Admissions Committee
Accreditation Program Review, Women’s Studies
Focus Group on Liberal Arts Domain
Awards and Prizes and other honors:
Current Research Panel, SPEP, 2013. [A session dedicated to honouring career research]
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award, The University of Memphis, 1999-2000.
Series editor of “Gender Theory” for SUNY Press.
External examiner for a Ph.D. thesis, "Meaning and Matricide: Reading Woolf via Kristeva," Department of
English, University of London, Ontario, Canada, February 19, 1993,
External examiner for a Ph.D. thesis, "Derrida's Commemorations: Questions on Femininity, Ethics and Death,"
Department of General Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia, July 1995.
External honors examiner for Swarthmore College, May 18-19, 1995.
Invited course lecturer, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, July-Aug 1995.
Ethics of Eros, nominated and chosen for discussion at a Current Research Panel of the Society for Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy conference, October 12, 1995.
Grants, Awards and Fellowships:
2007 University Research Grant
2006 Professional Development Leave
2004 Professional Development Leave
2004 University Research Grant
2000 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award
1999 Professional Leave Development Funding
1998 Max Deutscher Fellow, Macquarrie University, Sydney, Australia
1998 Short term Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Program, University of New South Wales
1996-7 Professional Leave Development Funding
1995 Academic Enrichment Funds for Spindel conference
1994 Cultural Diversity Grant, Fall Seminar Series, M. S. U.
1994 N. E. H. Summer Institute Fellowship, "Embodiment: The Intersection of Nature and Culture,"
UCSC, Santa Cruz, directed by David Hoy, Jocelyn Hoy, and Hubert Dreyfus
1994 Summer Faculty Research Grant Award, M. S. U.
1993 M. S. U. Scholarship for General and Liberal Studies Conference.
1993 Center for French and Francophone Studies Summer Grant
1992 May-June, L. E. Q. S. F. Grant for Women's Studies Curriculum
Development Summer Workshop, L. S. U.
1992 Charles Manship Summer Fellowship, L. S. U.
1990-1 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia, Center for
Literary and Cultural Change.

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1990-1 I was offered an Andrew B. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bryn Mawr.
1990 Summer Research Grant, L. S. U.
1985 Summer, Lumsden Nicol travel Fellowship, British Federation of University Women
Courses Taught include:
Graduate Level: Undergraduate Level:
Feminist Theories (also undergraduate) Philosophy and Literature (upper level)
Phenomenology & Recent Continental (also undergraduate) Introduction to Philosophy
Post-structuralism (also undergraduate) Western Civilization (introductory)
Time (Derrida, Heidegger, Levinas) Existentialism (upper level)
Levinas Values in the Modern world
Hegel (also undergraduate) (introductory)
Heidegger’s Being and Time Ancient Philosophy (introductory)
Democracy and the Politics of Difference Classical Issues
Kristeva Film Theory
Irigaray Multiculturalism
Kofman Issues in Sex and Gender
The Political Legacies of Antigone In-depth study of Judith Butler
Aesthetics, Politics, and Sexual Difference Comparing Antigones
Post-colonial Antigones Feminist Philosophies
Transgender Aesthetics
Rancière Levinas
Butler Social Contract Theory
Hellenistic Philosophy
Ethics