RESEARCH
Drawing from an interdisciplinary background of continental feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, LGBTQ studies, and philosophies of gender, race, and sexuality, Amy's research investigates the contemporary crises of transgender life. Amy's dissertation project, "Crises of Word and Flesh: Transgender Embodiment and the Kristevan Culture of Revolt," engages with the works of Julia Kristeva in order to demonstrate how trans and queer subjectivities disclose certain crises of meaning at the crossroads of language and the body, where the possibilities of revolt may also be cultivated. Amy’s research on gender, race, and sexuality has been presented at over 30 national and international conferences and her writings appear in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, as well as in the volume New Forms of Revolt: Essays on Kristeva’s Intimate Politics.
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