Elizabeth A. Grosz (born 1952 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian philosopher, feminist theorist, and professor working in the U.S. She is Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Professor at Duke University. She has written on 20th-century French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze, as well as on

gender Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to femininity and masculinity and differentiating between them. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures (i.e. gender roles) and gender identity. Most cultures ...

, sexuality,

temporality In philosophy, temporality refers to the idea of a linear progression of past, present, and future. The term is frequently used, however, in the context of critiques of commonly held ideas of linear time. In social sciences, temporality is studie ...

, and Darwinian evolutionary theory.

Biography

In 1981, Grosz received her PhD from the Department of General Philosophy at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's ...

, where she was a lecturer from 1978 to 1991. She moved to

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...

in 1992. From 1999 to 2001, she was professor of Comparative Literature and English at the

State University of New York at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

. She taught at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

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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