Education:
Ph.D., University of New South Wales, 1999
M.A., Yale University, 1994
B.A., Smith College, 1992
Current Research:
Currently at work on a book project tentatively titled “Derrida’s Other of Sexual Difference,” which is an examination of Derrida’s later work and his relationship to ethics and sexual difference.
Recent Publications:
Books
The Signifying Body: Towards an Ethics of Sexual and Racial Difference. Forthcoming from SUNY Press, Series in Gender Theory, Tina Chanter, ed., 2008.
Articles Referred in Journals:
“Representing the Irish Body: Reading Ned’s Armor.” Antipodes: Journal of the American Association of Australian Studies 20:1(June 2006): 11-19. Research for this article was funded by a grant from the NEH.
"Racializing Babylon: Settler Whiteness and the 'New Racism.'" New Literary History 32:1 (Winter 2001): 157-176.
"From Goddess Spirituality to Irigaray's Angel: The Politics of the Divine." Feminist Review 66 (Autumn 2000): 46-72.
"'One Drifts Apart': To the Lighthouse as Art of Response." Philosophy and Literature (April 1999): 78-95.
"Can the Settler Speak?: Appropriating Subaltern Silence in Janet Frame's The Carpathians," Cultural Critique 41 (Winter 1998/99): 79-107.
Department/University Committees:
Department Tenure and Promotion Committee, Hermanns Lecture Committee, University Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities
Recent Awards and Grants:
NEH Summer Stipend 2004
Professional Service:
Referee for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Referee for Island Studies JournaI
Professional Memberships:
Modern Language Association of America
International Association of Philosophy and Literature
Society for Women in Philosophy
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory.
Southern Comparative Literature Association
American Association of Australian Studies
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