Penelope Deutscher
Department of Philosophy

Penelope Deutscher (Ph.D University of New South Wales and DEA Paris I) taught at the University of New South Wales and at Australian National University before joining Northwestern in 2002 as Associate Professor of Philosophy. Her main fields of interest are twentieth century French philosophy (existentialism, deconstruction, French feminism); philosophy of gender and sexuality; and history of philosophy (Rousseau, Nietzsche). She is the author of Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 1997) and of A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (Cornell UP, 2002). She is also the co-editor (with Kelly Oliver) of Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman; editor of Contemporary French Women Philosophers (a special issue of Hypatia, 2000) and of Genre et Justice (special issue of Les cahiers du Grif, with Françoise Collin, 2002). Deutcher spent the academic year 2003-04 on leave in Paris.

p-deutscher@northwestern.edu