Continentral philosphy and in particular Luce Irigaray and sexual difference, Foucault, Heidegger and existentialism.
Edited volume: Existentialism: An Anthology for the Twenty-First Century, Edited by Robert Bernasconi and Mary Beth Mader. Contract approved for manuscript submission date of January 2009.
Chapters 4 and 5 of The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger in The Theory of Difference: Readings in Contemporary Continental Thought, Ed. Douglas L. Donkel, SUNY Press, 2001, pp. 317-337. (Reprint)
“Levinas’ ‘Etre Juif’” Invited essay for Continental Philosophy Review.
“Comments on Alison Stone’s Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference.” Part of “Critical Exchange Section” with Penelope Deutscher and Alison Stone. Comments and response from Author’s Book Session Panel at Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting in Chicago, November 9, 2008. Forthcoming in differences, 19.3, Fall 2008, pp.126-138. Eds. Ellen Rooney and Elizabeth Weed.
Review of Between Deleuze and Derrida, Eds. Paul Patton and John Protevi, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 42:4 October, 2004, pp. 507-508.
“The Disappearing Button: Heidegger, Foucault and Superautomated Spaces,” Philosophy Today, Eds. Stephen Crowell and Margaret A. Simons, SPEP Supplement 2003, Volume 28, pp. 97-104.
“The Forgetting of Feeding: Luce Irigaray’s Critique of Martin Heidegger,” in Between the Psyche and the Social, Eds. S. Edwin and K. Oliver, Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, pp. 29-46.
“Suffering Contradiction: Kofman on Nietzsche’s Critique of Logic,” in Enigmas: A Collection of Essays on Sarah Kofman, Eds. P. Deutscher, K. Oliver, Cornell University Press, April 1999, pp. 87-96.
(Scheduled) Paper, “The Depths of Life: The Ontology of Intensity in Deleuze’s Biological Philosophy,” for invited panel on “Continental Philosophy and Biology,” Society for Existential and Phenomenological Philosophy annual meeting, Arlington, VA, October 29-31, 2009.
(Scheduled) Invited Speaker, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Brunel University, UK, June 5, 2009.
(Scheduled) Invited speaker, “Levinas’ Time and the Other and “Being Jewish” Conference, Florida State University, November 17, 2008.
(Scheduled) Invited speaker, “The Difference of Intensity,” The Society for the Study of Difference, panel session at Society for Existential and Phenomenological Philosophy annual meeting, Pittsburgh, October 16, 2008.
Invited respondent to panel devoted to “Antigone’s Line” at Year of Antigones Conference, Chicago, DePaul University, May 18-20, 2008.
Invited speaker, Roundtable on Feminism and Activism, PhiloSOPHIA Conference, Decatur, March 22, 2008.
Invited commentator, “Comments on Alison Stone’s Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference.” Book Session: Alison Stone’s Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, November 9, 2007.
“Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought,” Irigaray Circle Meeting, September 7-9, 2007, Stony Brook Manhattan Campus.
“Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought,” French Feminism Circle, Inaugural Meeting, 17-10 May 2007, Monteagle, TN.
“Statistical Panopticism,” Foucault Circle Annual Meeting. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. March 8-10, 2007.
“Deleuze, et cetera: Sexuality and the Ontology of Repetition,” Special Session Arranged by the APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession. Topic: Continental Philosophy and the Discourse of Sexuality. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, December 30, 2004.
“Antigone and the Ethics of Kinship,” Conference: Luce Irigaray and the Greeks: Genealogies of Re-writing, Columbia University, October 3, 2004.
Commentator on Tina Chanter’s “The Unconscious Racism of Feminism” and Penelope Deutscher’s “The Sex of Knowing,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Society for the Philosophy of History, April 23, 2004.
“Trauma and Sexual Difference in the Thought of Luce Irigaray,” Conference on Trauma, Millsaps College, April 3-5, 2003.
“The Forgetting of Feeding: Luce Irigaray’s Critique of Martin Heidegger,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July 13, 2001.
