Elizabeth A. Grosz (born 1952 in

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, feminist theorist, and professor working in the U.S. She is Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Professor at

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. She has written on 20th-century French philosophers

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and

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, as well as on gender,

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, temporality, and Darwinian evolutionary theory.

Biography

In 1981, Grosz received her

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from the Department of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney, where she was a lecturer from 1978 to 1991. She moved to Monash University in 1992. From 1999 to 2001, she was professor of Comparative Literature and English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She taught at Rutgers University in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies from 2002 until becoming professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke in 2012.

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) * ''The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism'' (2017)

References

External links

An Older Biography and Bibliography

Interview by Heather Davis in NMP23
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