Faculty - Taylor

Dr. Chloë Taylor

Assistant Professor

Office: 1-02B Assiniboia Hall, Phone: 248-1186
Email: chloe.taylor@ualberta.ca

Degrees

BA, Honours Philosophy (University of Victoria)
BA, Art History and German Studies (McGill University)
MA, Art History (McGill University)
PhD, Philosophy (University of Toronto)
Tomlinson and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Philosophy (McGill University)

Research

My current research focuses on feminist philosophy, Foucault studies, sexuality studies, Critical Animal Studies, and the philosophy of food. I am working concurrently on two book projects. The first, Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crime, draws on Foucault’s studies of delinquency and sexuality as well as feminist literature in order to analyze the cases of sexual assault, statutory rape and pedophilia, sex in hierarchical relations and sexual harassment, sex work and pornography. The second book, Abnormal Appetites: Foucault and the Philosophy of Food, draws on Foucault’s genealogical and ethical writings in order to pursue a study of alimentary identities as both disciplinary and as a potential site for care of the self. I am particularly interested in the disciplinary function of nutritional science, the ways that alimentary identities intersect with gendered and sexual identities, and practices of resistance to animal-based diets. My research is currently funded by two Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grants: L'expérience du corps chez Foucault: santé, sexualité, alimentation et animalité ($38,430.), Co-investigator: Alain Beaulieu, and Le tournant éthique du dernier Foucault et les usages de sa pensée ($48,020.), Principal Investigator: Alain Beaulieu.

Teaching

Fall 2011: WST 498/PHIL 433/594 “French Feminisms”
Fall 2011: PHIL 345 “Humans and Other Animals”
Winter 2012: WST 332 “Contemporary Feminist Theory”
Winter 2012: WST 498/PHIL 372 “Philosophy of Sex”

Selected Publications

The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault: A Genealogy of the ‘Confessing Animal’.
Routledge, August 2008. Second Edition: November 2010.

“Race and Racism in Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures,” Philosophy Compass. December, 2011.

“Foucault and Familial Power,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, volume 27, number 1
(January-March 2012).

“Disciplinary Relations/Sexual Relations: Feminist and Foucauldian Reflections on Professor—Student
Sex,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, volume 26, number 1 (January-March 2011).

“Genealogies of Oppression,” a dialogue with Ladelle McWhorter, philoSOPHIA: a journal of
continental feminism, issue 3, Fall 2011.

“Between Discipline and Care of the Self: A Dialogue on Foucault and the Psychological Sciences,” with
Cressida Heyes, PhaenEx, volume 5, number 2, Fall 2010.

“Foucault and the Ethics of Eating,” Foucault Studies, Number 9, September 2010. To be reprinted in
Foucault and Animals, edited by Matthew Chrulew and Dinesh Wadiwel (under consideration with Fordham University Press).

“Fanon, Foucault, and the Politics of Psychiatry,” in Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy, eds.
Elizabeth Hoppe and Tracey Nicholls. Lexington Press, 2010.

“Biopower,” in Michel Foucault: Key Concepts, ed. Dianna Taylor. Acumen Press, 2010.

“Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, volume 24, number
4 (October-December 2009).

“Pornographic Confessions?: Sex Work and Scientia Sexualis in Foucault and Linda Williams,” Foucault
Studies, Number 7, September 2009.

“The Precarious Lives of Animals: Butler, Coetzee, and Animal Ethics,” Philosophy Today, issue 1,
volume 52 (2008).

“Hard, dry eyes and eyes that weep: vision and ethics in Lévinas and Derrida,” Postmodern Culture,
January (2006).

“Schöne Seele meets bête d’aveu: Confession in Hegel, Foucault, and Ingmar Bergman’s Persona,”
Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Fall 2006.

“Kristevan themes in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves,” Journal of Modern Literature, volume 29, (2006).

“Alternatives to confession: Foucault’s ‘fragments of an autobiography’,” Symposium: Canadian Journal
of Continental Philosophy, Spring 2005.

“The confessions of Annie Ernaux: truth, autobiography, and repetition for its own sake,” Journal of
Modern Literature, volume 28, number 2 (2005)

“Lévinasian ethics and feminist ethics of care,” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental
Philosophy, Fall 2005.

“Postmodern ethics and the expression of differends in the novels of Jeanette Winterson,” Journal of
Modern Literature, volume 26, number 3 (2003).

“Bodies, genders and causation in Aristotle’s political and biological theory,” Ancient Philosophy,
volume 23 (2003).