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Against Universality: Founding Cultural StudiesDissertation, University of Pennsylvania. 1999.Arguments against universality play a crucial role in cultural studies. In this dissertation I reach outside of literary studies---especially, though not at all exclusively, to contemporary analytic philosophy---to work at a well-articulated, anti-objectivist, and therefore anti-universalist mode of analyzing and understanding the structures and contents of cultural production. The first three chapters of the dissertation survey work from a number of academic disciplines, and work between them, …Read more
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42Rethinking Philosophy in the Third Wave of FeminismHypatia 12 (3). 1997.The influence of feminist theory on philosophy has been less pervasive than it might have been. This is due in part to inherent tensions between feminist critique and the university as an institution, and to philosophy's place in the academy. These tensions, if explored rather than resisted, can result in a revitalized, more explicitly feminist conception of philosophy itself, wherein philosophy is seen as an attempt to rethink the deepest aspects of experience and culture
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19Feminism and Mental Representation: Analytic Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Narrow ContentIn Emanuela Bianchi (ed.), Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy?, Northwestern University Press. pp. 202. 1999.
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46The Language of Science and the Science of Language: Chomsky’s CartesianismDiacritics 43 (1): 38-62. 2015.
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Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRegular Faculty
Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Computing and Information |