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EDUCATION
Ph. D. University of California at Berkeley, Political Science (1986)
"Images of Women in Political Theory: Agents of Culture and Chaos"
Committee: Michael Rogin, Paul Thomas, and Carolyn Porter
M. A. University of California at Berkeley, Political Science (1981)
"Theory--An Althusserian Practice"
B. A. Ithaca College, Political Science (Honors, 1978)
FIELDS
Political Theory
Feminist Theory
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2008-present
Professor of Gender Studies, University of Chicago, 2008-present
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1998-2008
Affiliated Faculty, Gender Studies Program, Northwestern University, 1998-2008
Adjunct Faculty, German Department, Northwestern University, 2001-2008
Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, 1993-1998
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, 1987-1993
Associate Director, Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of
Democracy (Benjamin Barber, Director), 1990-1997; Acting Director, 1990-91
Affiliated Faculty, Comparative Literature Program, Rutgers University, 1990-1998
Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies Program, Rutgers University, 1987-1998
BOOKS
Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1994).
Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Spanish Translation: El feminismo y el abismo de la libertad (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura
Económica, 2008).
German translation (Vienna: Turia + Kant, forthcoming 2009).
Selected for book panels at: American Political Science Association Convention (2008), American Sociological Association Meeting (2007), University of Essex Political Theory Conference (2006), Feminist Theory Workshop of the Western Political Science Association (2007), and Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Meeting (2006).
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgment," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, forthcoming
2008.
"Truth and Politics," Theory and Event, vol. 9, issue 4 (2006).
"'We Feel Our Freedom': Imagination and Judgment in the Thought of Hannah Arendt," Political Theory
33, no. 2 (April 2005): 158-188.
Reprinted in German as "Wir fühlen unsere Freiheit: Einbildungskraft und Urteil im Denken Hannah
Arendts," Publicum: Theorien der Öffentlichkeit, ed. Gerald Raunig and Ulf Wuggenig (Vienna:
Turia & Kant, 2005): 56-66. [Electronic version: www.Republicart.net (2005).]
"Aesthetic Judgment and the Public Sphere in the Thought of Hannah Arendt," Österreichische Zeitschrift
für Geschichtswissenschaften 4 (Winter 2005).
"Philosophy's 'Gaudy Dress': Fantasy and Rhetoric in the Lockean Social Contract," The European
Journal of Political Theory 4, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 147-164.
Reprinted in Feminist Interpretations of John Locke, ed. Nancy Hirschmann and Kirstie McClure
(University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 2006).
"Refiguring Rights through the Political Practice of Sexual Difference," differences: A Journal of Feminist
Cultural Criticism 15, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 54-90.
"Castoriadis, Arendt, and the Problem of the New," Constellations 9, no. 4 (December 2002): 540-553.
"Doing without Knowing: Feminism's Politics of the Ordinary," Political Theory 24, no. 4 (August 1998):
435-458.
Reprinted in German as "Tun ohne Wissen: Feminismus und seine Politik des Gewöhnlichen,"
Mesotes: Jahrbuch für philosophischen Ost-West Dialogue (Vienna: Turia und Kant, 2000): 96-
127.
Reprinted in Gender Struggles: Recent Writings in Feminist Philosophy, ed. Constance Mui and Julien
Murphy (Boston: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002): 22-46.
Reprinted in The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy, ed. Cressida Heyes
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003): 129-148.
"This Universalism Which Is Not One," Diacritics 28, no. 2 (August 1998): 3-20.
Reprinted in Laclau: A
Critical Reader, ed. Simon Critchley and Oliver Marchant (London: Routledge, 2004): 88-110.
Reprinted in French as "Cet Universalisme qui n'est pas Un," in Revue du MAUSS 17 (Premier
Semestre 2001): 332-345.
"Between Materialism and Utopianism: Reflections on the Work of Drucilla Cornell,"Philosophy and
Social Criticism 22, no. 4 (1996): 95-108.
"A Process without a Subject: Simone de Beauvoir and Julia Kristeva on Maternity," Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society 18, no. 1 (Autumn 1992): 111-135.
Reprinted in Figuras de la Madre, ed. Silvia Tubert (Spain: Ediciones Catedra, 2000).
"Text/Woman as Spectacle: Edmund Burke's 'French Revolution'," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation 33, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 47-72.
"Machiavelli's Sisters: Women and 'The Conversation' of Political Theory," Political Theory 19, no. 2
(May 1991): 252-276.
"Rememoration or War?: French Feminist Narratives and the Politics of Self-Representation," differences:
A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (Spring 1991): 1-19.
" 'I am a Woman': Female Voice and Ambiguity in The Second Sex," Women & Politics 11, no. 1 (1991):
93-107.
"The Trojan Horse of Universalism: Language as a War Machine in the Writings of Monique Wittig,"
Social Text 25-26 (Summer 1990): 146-170.
Reprinted in The Phantom Public Sphere, ed. Bruce Robbins (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1993).
"Motionless Idols and Virtuous Mothers: Women, Art, and Politics in France 1789-1848," Berkeley
Journal of Sociology 27 (1982): 89-126.
CRITICAL RESPONSES
Reply to Myra Marx Ferree's, Andreas Glaeser's, and George Steinmetz's Responses to Linda M. G.
Zerilli, "Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom," in Sociological Theory, The American Sociological
Association, forthcoming 2008.
"Truth and the Lure of Method," Response to Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Orloff,
Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and, in International Journal of Comparative Sociology 47,
no. 5 (2006): 411-418.
Reply to Tracy Strong's Response and Richard Flathman's Response to Linda M. G. Zerilli, "Truth and
Politics," Theory and Event, vol. 9, no. 4 (2006).
Reply to Terrell Carver's Response to Linda M. G. Zerilli, "Philosophy's Gaudy Dress: Fantasy and
Rhetoric in the Lockean Social Contract," The European Journal of Political Theory 5, no. 4 (2006):
495-498.
Reply to Leslie Thiele's Response to Linda M. G. Zerilli, " 'We Feel Our Freedom': Imagination and
Judgment in the Thought of HannahArendt," Political Theory 33, no. 5 (October 2005): 715-720.
"Truth Claims and Feminist Politics: Response to John Simons's Response to Linda M. G. Zerilli, 'Doing
Without Knowing: Feminism's Politicsof the Ordinary'," Political Theory 28, no. 2 (April 2000):
279-285.
"No Thrust, No Swell, No Subject?: A Critical Response to Stephen White's 'Burke on Politics,
Aesthetics, and the Dangers of Modernity'," Political Theory 22, no. 2 (May 1994): 323-328.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Urteilen/Einbildungskraft" and "Freiheit" both in Hannah Arendt Handbuch, ed. Wolfgang Heuer
(Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, forthcoming 2008).
"Feminists Know Not What They Do: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and the Limits of Epistemology," in
Judith Butler's Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters, ed. Terrell Carver and Samuel Chambers
(Routledge, forthcoming 2008). Republication of Chapter One of Linda M.G. Zerilli, Feminism and
the Abyss of Freedom.
Introduction to Neu Beginnen: Hannah Arendt, die Revolution, und die Globalisierung, by Oliver
Marchant (Vienna: Verlag Turia + Kant, 2005).
"Feminist Theory and the Canon of Political Thought," in Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, ed. John
Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips (Oxford University Press, 2006).
"A New Grammar of Difference: Monique Wittig's Poetic Revolution," in Monique Wittig: Political,
Literary, and Theoretical Essays, ed. Namascar Shaktini (Illinois University Press, 2005).
" 'Une Maitresse Imperieuse': Woman in Rousseau's Semiotic Republic," in Feminist Interpretations of
Rousseau, ed. Lynda Lange (Pennsylvania University Press, 2002). Republication of Chapter Three,
Linda M. G. Zerilli, Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill.
"The Ambiguity of Multiculturalism," in Multiculturalism in Plural Societies, ed. Pablo Perel (Buenos
Aires: Eudeba, 2004).
"The Skepticism of Willful Liberalism," in Essays in Honor of Richard Flathman, eds. Bonnie Honig and
David Lake (Minnesota University Press, 2002).
Introduction to Debating Women's Equality: Toward a Feminist Theory of Law from a European
Perspective, by Ute Gerhardt (Rutgers University Press, 2001), ix-xiv.
"Wittgenstein, Between Pragmatism and Deconstruction," in The Legacy of Wittgenstein: Pragmatism or
Deconstruction, ed. Ludwig Nagl and Chantal Mouffe (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Publishers,
2001), 25-42.
"Democracy and National Fantasy: Reflections on the Statue of Liberty," in Political Theory and Cultural
Studies, ed. Jodi Dean (Cornell University Press, 2000), 167-188.
"Feminism's Flight from the Ordinary," in Vocations of Political Theory, ed. Jason A. Frank and John
Tambornino (Minnesota University Press, 2000), 166-188.
"The Arendtian Body," in Feminist Perspectives on Hannah Arendt, ed. Bonnie Honig (Pennsylvania
State University Press, 1995), 167-194.
"The Feminist Challenge to Political Science," co-authored with Susan J. Carroll, in Political Science: The
State of the Discipline, 2nd ed., ed. Ada W. Finifter (American Political Science Association, 1993),
55-76.
Reprinted in French in Politix: Revue de Sciences Sociales 41, trans. Jean Phillipe (1998), 33-81.
Reprinted in Methods for Political Inquiry: The Discipline, Philosophy and Analysis of Politics,
ed. Stella Theodoulou and Rory O'Brien(Prentice Hall, 1999).
Reprinted in Russian in Gendernaia rekonsturktsiia politicheskikh sistem [Gender Reconstruction of
Political Systems], ed. Elena Kochkina (St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2004), 877-919.
Reprinted in Arabic in Gender and Political Science, ed. Mervat F. Hatem (Cairo: Women and
Memory Forum, forthcoming 2008).
"Constructions of Harriet Taylor: Another Look at J. S. Mill's Autobiography," in Constructions of the
Self, ed. George Levine (Rutgers University Press, 1992), 191-212.
Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, vol. 102 (October, 2001).
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Nach dem Ende Aller Maßstäbe: Hannah Arendt's Überlegungen zur demokratischen Urteilskraft sind
von ungebrochener Aktualitaät," Frankfurter Rundschau, no. 6 (7 January 2006).
Reprinted in Spanish in Humboldt Magazine (May 2006).
"From Multidisciplinary to Interdisciplinary: U.S. Women's Studies in the Year 2000," paper
commissioned and published by the Swiss Science Council, Bern, Switzerland, 1998.
"Gender and Citizenship," co-authored with Diana Owen, Transaction Society 18, no. 5 (July/August
1991): 7-34.
WORK IN PROGRESS/UNDER REVIEW
Toward a Democratic Theory of Judgment (book-length manuscript)
"Value Pluralism and the Problem of Judgment," submitted to Political Theory (1/2/2008)
"The Return of The Woman Question" (essay)
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES
Review Essay, Wittgenstein: A Feminist Interpretation, by Alessandra Tanesini, Political Theory 34, no. 2
(April 2006): 270-273.
Review Essay, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, by Judith Butler, Ernesto
Laclau, and Slavoj Zizek, Political Theory 30, no. 1 (February 2002): 167-170.
Review Essay, Edmund Burke: Modernity, Politics, Aesthetics, by Stephen K. White, The American
Political Science Review 91, no. 2 (June 1997): 446-447.
"Feminist Theory," Undergraduate Syllabus and Course Materials, selected for inclusion in volume on
Women and Politics, The American Political Science Association, 1995.
Review Essay, The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy, by Gilles Lipovetsky, Political
Theory 24, no. 3 (August 1996): 556-560.
Review Essay, Micro-Politics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era, by Patricia S. Mann, The American Political
Science Review 89, no. 1 (March 1995): 185-187.
Review Essay, The Man Question, by Kathy Ferguson, Women and Politics (1994).
"Women as Citizens," co-authored with Wendy Gunther-Canada, Political Economy for the Good Society
Newsletter 2, no. 2 (Summer 1992): 18-19.
Review Essay, The Sexual Contract, by Carole Pateman, The Women's Review of Books 6, no. 6 (March
1989): 16.
Review Essay, Feminism and Political Theory, edited by Judith Evans, Women and Politics 8, no. 1
(1988): 89-91.
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2006/07
Inclusion in the Pembroke Center's Feminist Theory Papers Collection, Brown University
Jean Gimbel Lane Professor, Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Fall 2004
Faculty Fellow, Gender Studies Faculty Seminar, Northwestern University, 2001
Fulbright Fellow (Germany), 1998/1999
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1995/96
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1995/96
Dialogues Grant, Rutgers University, 1995/96
Faculty Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, 1994/95, Rutgers University
Trustee's Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence 1993/94, Rutgers University
Faculty Fellow, Oregon Center for the Humanities 1990/91, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Faculty Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis 1989/90, Rutgers University
Faculty Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture 1988/89, Rutgers University
Faculty Merit Award, Rutgers University, 1997, 1991, 1990, 1989
Faculty Research Grant, Research Council, Rutgers University, 1997/98, 1996/97, 1995/96, 1994/95,
1993/94, 1992/93, 1991/92, 1990/91, 1989/90, 1988/89, 1987/88
Faculty Research Grant, Common Purposes Fund, Rutgers University, 1988/89
Summer Fellowship, Research Council, Rutgers University, 1988
Henry Robert Branden Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1984/85
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1984/85
Political Science Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1980
Bachelor of Arts, 1978, magna cum laude
Dean's List, Ithaca College, 1975-8
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Editorial Board, Philosophy and Rhetoric (2008-)
Editorial Associate, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (2007-
present)
Editorial Board, Women and Politics Series, Rutgers University Press, 1995-present
Consulting Editor, Theory and Event: An Online Journal of Political Theory and Thought, 1999-present
Advisory Board, Culture, Theory and Critique, 2001-present
Advisory Board, Feministische Studien, 1999-present
Executive Committee, Political Theory, February 1998-2004
Editorial Board, Polity, 1998-2005
Director, Women and Citizenship Project, The Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of
Democracy, Rutgers University, 1992-1998
Member, American Political Science Association, 1986-present
INVITED LECTURES
"Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgment," Political Science Department, The New School for Social
Research (13 November 2007).
"Value Pluralism, Feminism, and the Problem of Judgment," Department of Political Science, University
of California Los Angeles (26 May 2007); Department of Political Science, Stanford University (25
May 2007); Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego (25 April 2007); The
University of Chicago (20 April 2007).
"Toward a Democratic Theory of Judgment," Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University (22 May
2007).
"Reframing the Freedom Question in Feminism," Women's Studies Program, Duke University (29 March
2007).
"Value Pluralism and the Problem of Political Judgment," Keynote Address, Conference: "The Many and
the One: Hospitality and the Limits of Pluralism," University of Essex (12 May 2006).
"Rhetoric and Politics: A Comment on Ernesto Laclau's On Populist Reason," Program in Rhetoric and
Public Culture, Northwestern University (17 February 2006).
"Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom," Left of Center Bookstore, Chicago (2 February
2006).
"Truth and Politics," Oxford Political Thought Conference, St. Catherine's College, Oxford (6 January
2006).
"Toward a Democratic Theory of Political Judgment," Columbia University (4 November 2005).
"Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom," Wesleyan University (15
November 2004).
"What a Political Claim Is," Conference on the Work of Ernesto Laclau, New York University (11
November 2004).
" 'We Feel Our Freedom': Imagination and Judgment in the Thought of Hannah Arendt," Kunstraum der
Universität Luneburg, Germany (26 June 2004).
"Feminism and the Practice of Political Judgment," University of Michigan Colloquium in Political
Theory, Ann Arbor (11 April 2003).
"Feminists Make Judgments," Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers
University (28 February 2003).
"Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom," Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago (11 February
2002).
"Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom," Department of Political Science, University of Toronto (15 March
2002).
"The Spaces of Judgment: Hannah Arendt's Copernican Revolution," Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria (15
December 2001).
"A New Grammar of Difference: Monique Wittig's Poetic Revolution," Department of Comparative
Literature, SUNY Buffalo (5 October 2001).
"The Ambiguity of Multiculturalism," Reconsidering Multiculturalism, University of Vienna (15 June
2001).
"Wittgenstein: Pragmatist or Deconstructionist?," Unit of Interpretive Theory and Criticism, University of
Illinois at Urbana (4 December 2000).
"Castoriadis and the Problem of the New," Columbia University (2 December 2000).
"Feminism and the Ordinary," Johns Hopkins University (2 May 2000).
"Ludwig Wittgenstein: Between Pragmatism and Deconstruction," The Austrian Cultural Institute,
London (18 November 1999).
"Are Identity Politics Undemocratic?," "Two Forums on Democracy: France and the U. S. A.," Rutgers
University (28 October 1999).
"Geschlecht als Kategorie der feministischen Wissenschaftskritik," Interdisziplinäres Graduiertenkolleg der
Universitäten Basel, Bern, Genf und Zürich, University of Zurich (2 July 1999).
"Feminist Critique and Political Science," Department of Political Science, University of Geneva (31 May
1999).
"Beyond the Woman Question in Politics," Department of Political Science, University of Geneva (1 June
1999).
"Agonistic Universalism," Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna (9 April
1999).
"The Changing Face of Lady Liberty: Shifting Representations of the Statue of Liberty and of What it
Means to be an American," Akademie Franz-Hitze-Haus, sponsored by Amerika-Haus Köln and
Bezirksregierung Münster (16 December 1998).
"Feministische Wissenschaftskritik," Universität Zürich (12 November 1998).
"Frauenförderung im Jahr 2000," Swiss Parliamentary Hearing on the Future of the European University, Bern, Switzerland (27 August 1998).
"Politische Ikonographie," Universität Bielefeld, Germany (19 December 1997); Universität
Bern, Switzerland (17 December 1997).
Keynote Address, "Feminist Studies in den U.S.A.: Eine neue Art des kritischen Denkens," Frauen
Forschung im internationalen Vergleich, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
(9 October 1997).
Foreign Guest Speaker, "Was ist 'Gender Studies?" Public Hearing on the Future of Gender Studies in
Switzerland, Universität Zürich (23 June 1997).
"Sexual Difference in the Democratic Symbolic," University of Essex (7 March 1997); University of
Westminster (6 March 1997); The New School for Social Research (5 May 1996).
"Monuments and the Public Sphere," Union College (10 November 1995).
"Sexual Difference in the Work of Slavoj Zizek," Plenary Talk, Society for Philosophy and Literature,
Villanova University (13 May 1995).
"The Female Body in the Public Sphere," Department of Government, Harvard University (5 May 1995);
Providence College (3 May 1995); University of Connecticut (6 February 1995).
"Feminist Theory Without Solace: The Work of Simone de Beauvoir in Postmodern Context," New
School for Social Research (6 May 1993).
"Know Thyself?: French Feminism, the Feminine Body, and the Question of Self-Knowledge," Oregon
State University (20 January 1991).
"Rememoration or War?: French Feminism and the Politics of Self-Representation," Center for the
Humanities, Oregon State University (10 April 1991).
"Constructing Citizen Man," Universität Bielefeld, West Germany (20 January 1986).
"The Queen's Two Bodies," Universität Köln (25 November 1985).
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
"Value Pluralism and the Problem of Judgment," American Political Science Association Meeting,
Chicago (1 September 2007).
"From Willing to Judging: Hannah Arendt's Copernican Revolution," Western Political Science
Association, Las Vegas (8 March 2007).
"Truth and the Lure of Method," Response to Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology by
Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Orloff (Duke University Press, 2005), Council for
European Studies Conference, Drake Hotel, Chicago (31 March 2006).
"Truth and Politics," American Political Science Meeting, Washington, D.C. (2 September 2005).
" 'We Feel Our Freedom': Imagination and Judgment in the Thought of Hannah Arendt," American
Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago (2 September 2004).
"Feminists Make Judgments," American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston (30 August 2002).
"Wittgenstein on Logical Necessity," American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C.
(1 September 2000).
"Feminism's Flight From The Ordinary," American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston
(3 September 1998).
"Feminism and the Necessities of Utopia," American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington,
D.C. (29 August 1997).
"Locke's Political Semiotics," American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco (31 August
1996).
"Storming the Tower of Babel," Roundtable with Monique Wittig, Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, Lexington, Kentucky (20 April 1996).
"Sexual Difference and the Democratic Symbolic," Department of Political Science, Rutgers University
(15 November 1995).
"The Democratic Symbolic: Reflections on the Statue of Liberty," The Institute for Advanced Study
(2 November 1995).
"The Goddess of Democracy," American Political Science Meeting, Chicago (1 September 1995).
"Liberal Feminism at Century's End," American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago
(31 August 1995).
"The Problem of Difference in Feminist Theory: Reflections on the Work of Drucilla Cornell," Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference (29 September 1994).
"Psychoanalysis and Political Theory," American Political Science Association Meeting, New York
(1-4 September 1994).
"A Tower of Babel: Feminism, Democracy, and the Dream of a Common Language," The Feminist
Subject in Political Transition Conference, Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic
(21-27 March 1994).
"A Feminist Political Theory of Memory: Reflections on Female Sexualization," Western Political Science
Association Meeting, Albuquerque (9 March 1994).
"The Arendtian Body," American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C. (3 August
1993).
Plenary Speaker, "Regendering/Regenerating the Public Sphere," Celebration of Our Work Conference,
Rutgers University (25 May 1993).
"Rethinking Beauvoir," Emerging Trends, Rutgers University (20 September 1992).
"A Process Without a Subject: Simone De Beauvoir and Julia Kristeva on Maternity," American Political
Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C. (31 August 1991).
"Simone De Beauvoir's Body Politics," Women's Studies Program, Rutgers University, Newark (11
November 1991).
"Breaking the Social/Linguistic Contract: Feminist Political Theory," Generative Origins of Feminist
Research, Rutgers University (18 October 1990).
"The Disappearing Citizen: ICPSR National Election Studies as Political Narrative, 1948-1989,"
co-authored with Diana Owen, American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco
(30 August 1990).
"Rememoration or War? French Feminist Narrative and the Politics of Self-Representation," American
Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco (30 August 1990).
"Feminism, Activism, Scholarship," Princeton University (8 March 1990).
"Gender and Citizenship," co-authored with Diana Owen, Northeast Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia (9 November 1989).
"Text/Woman as Spectacle: Burke's 'French Revolution'," American Political Science Association
Meeting, Atlanta (31 August 1989).
"I am a Woman: Female Voice and Ambiguity in The Second Sex," New York State Political Science
Association Meeting, New York City (1 April 1989).
"Curriculum Transformation and the Culture of Democracy," Rutgers University (23 February 1989).
"Creating Citizens, Creating Difference," Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture,
Rutgers University (14 March 1989).
"Feminist Politics and Political Theory," Women and Politics Conference, Marymount College (20 April
1988).
"Enlarging the Discourse: Integrating Scholarship on Race, Class and Gender into the Undergraduate
Curriculum" co-authored with the Rutgers New Jersey Project Faculty Team, Rutgers University,
(14-26 August 1988).
"Rousseau's Sexual Politics," American Political Science Association Meeting (4 September 1987).
"Political Theory and Gender," Women's Studies, Wellesley College (7 April 1986).
"Harriet Taylor Mill and the Higher Natures," American Political Science Association Meeting (29 August
1986).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Responses to Papers on Linda M. G. Zerilli, Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom, American Sociological
Association Meeting, New York (11 August 2007); The Feminist Thoery Conference of the Western
Political Science Association, Reno (6 March 2007); Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Philadelphia (11 October 2006).
Discussant, Panel on "Hannah Arendt and the Question of Violence," American Political Science
Association Meeting, Chicago (30 August 2007).
Organizer, A Tribute to Michael Rogin, American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston
(31 August 2002).
Conference Co-organizer, "Kant's Critique of Judgment and Political Thinking," Northwestern University
(1-2 March 2002).
Discussant, "Displacing Sexual Difference," papers by Drucilla Cornell and Judith Feher Gurewich,
American Psychoanalyis and Culture Society, Rutgers University (10 November 2001).
Chair, Roundtable on Simone de Beauvoir, American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington,
D.C. (2 September 2000).
Chair and Panel Organizer, Roundtable on Michael Rogin's Blackface, Whitenoise, American Political
Science Meeting, Washington, D.C. (30 August 1997).
Discussant, "Historical Perspectives on Politics, Identities, and Cultures," Northeast Political Science
Association Meeting, Boston (16 November 1996).
Chair, "Liberalism at Century's End: Zillah Eisenstein's The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism
Reconsidered," American Political Science Meeting, Chicago (1 September 1995).
Chair, "Feminism and Environmentalism," Transitions Conference, sponsored by the Institute for
Advanced Study and the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University (28 April
1995).
Chair, Gender, Race, Identity and Political Culture, The Western Political Science Association Meeting,
Portland, OR (16 March 1995).
Discussant, "Punishment and Desire," American Political Science Association Meeting, New York
(1-4 September 1994).
Conference Organizer, "Urban Space/Public Space and the Spaces of Femininity," Rutgers University
(27 April 1991).
Political Theory Senior Chair of the Northeast Political Science Association (1992). Organized political
theory panels for 1992 NPSA Meeting in Providence.
Political Theory Junior Chair of the Northeast Political Science Association (1991). Organized theory
panels for the 1991 NPSA Meeting in Philadelphia.
Roundtable Discussant, "Political Psychology and Political Theory," International Society for Political
Psychology, Cambridge (10 July 1993).
Discussant, Conference on Women and the Public Sphere, Johns Hopkins (2 October 1992).
Chair, "Identity and the Disintegrating Self: Terror or Transcendence," American Political Science
Association Meeting, Chicago (4 September 1992).
Discussant, "Political Theory and Narrative," American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago
(4 September 1992).
Chair and Discussant, "Power and Culture Panel," Northeast Political Science Association Meeting,
Philadelphia (16 November 1991).
Guest Speaker, "Postmodernism and the Social Sciences," International Relations Colloquium Series,
Rutgers University (8 May 1992).
Guest Speaker, "Feminist Political Theory in Transition," Language and Literature Colloquium Series,
Rutgers University (27 April 1992).
Chair and Panel Organizer, "Has Feminist Theory Affected the Field?," American Political Science
Association Meeting, Atlanta (29 August 1989).
Colloquium Presentation, "Women in Political Theory Discourse," Eagleton Institute, Rutgers University
(October 1989).
Guest Speaker, "Gender and Citizenship," co-authored with Diana Owen, Eagleton Summer Institute
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