Elizabeth Grosz

Elizabeth Grosz

Elizabeth A. Grosz is an Australian feminist academic living and working in the USA. She is known for philosophical interpretations of the work of French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, as well as her readings of the works of French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Michele Le Doeuff. She has mainly written on questions of corporeality and their relations to the sciences and the arts.

She has held tenured positions at the University of Sydney 1978-1991, then Monash University 1992-1998 and SUNY Buffalo 1999-2001. In 2002, she became a professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.

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)

Edited Books

* "Feminist Challenges. Social and Political Theory" (1986), co-edited with Carole Pateman (as Elizabeth Gross)
* "Language, Semiotics, Ideology" (1986), co-edited with Terry Threadgold, Gunter Kress and MAK Halliday
* "Futur*Fall. Excursions into Postmodernity" (1987), co-edited with Terry Threadgold, David Kelly and Alan Cholodenko
* "Crossing Boundaries. Feminism and the Critique of Knowledges" (1988), co-edited with Barbara Caine and Marie de Lepervanche
* "Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism" (1995), co-edited with Elspeth Probyn
* "Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures" (1999)

External links

* [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Grosz.html An Older Biography and Bibliography]
* [http://web.gc.cuny.edu/csctw/found_object/text/grosz.htm Interview]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/stories/s1381964.htm Interview]
* [http://willmedia.will.uiuc.edu/ramgen/archives/focus040910a.rm Radio interview on Kinsey]


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