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Mary Beth Mader

Professor Mader (PhD, University of Texas) joined the department in 2000. She also holds a BA from Smith College. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century continental philosophy, feminist theory, and ethics.

Curriculum vitae


Selected Publications

Sleights of Reason: Norm, Bisexuality, Development (SUNY Press, 2011) (Gender Theory Series, ed. Tina Chanter).

“Modern Living and Vital Race: Foucault and the Science of Life,” Foucault Studies 12 (2011): 97-112.

"Foucault's 'Metabody'," Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, vol. 7, iss. 2 (special issue on approaches to bioethics that draw on Continental philosophy, ed. Catherine Mills) (2010): 187-203.

"Luce Irigaray," in History of Continental Philosophy, vol. 6, ed. Alan Schrift (Durham: Acumen Press, 2010): 337-57.

Editor, Southern Journal of Philosophy 48, Spindel Supplement (2010), "The Sexes of Evolution: Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy and Evolutionary Theory."

"Foucault and Social Measure," Journal of French Philosophy, 17.1 (2007): 1-25.

“Antigone’s Line,” Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (Journal of French Philosophy), 15.1 (2005): 18-40; reprinted in Feminist Interpretations of Antigone, ed. Fanny Söderback (SUNY Press, forthcoming).


Recent & Upcoming Presentations

Invited plenary speaker, Deleuze Studies Conference. New Orleans, LA. June 25-27, 2012.

Author Session, Sleights of Reason: Norm, Bisexuality, Development. PhiloSOPHIA Conference, Miami University, Ohio. April 12-14, 2012.

Invited Paper, “Métaphysique et génération,” Colloque Levinas Totalité et infini, Archives Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. November 18-19, 2011.

Author Session, Sleights of Reason: Norm, Bisexuality, Development. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 20, 2011, Philadelphia, PA.

“The Rhizomatic Pope: Reproductive Kinship in Organism and Organization,” PhiloSOPHIA Panel on Feminism and Deleuze, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 20, 2011, Philadelphia, PA.

Contact Details
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: 121 Clement Hall
Phone: 901-678-4526
Fax: 901-678-4365
Email: mmader<at>memphis<dot>edu
Office Hours (Fall 2012):
Wednesdays 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and by appointment.
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