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Elizabeth Grosz

Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor Emerita
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708-0760
210 East Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Elizabeth Grosz is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University.  She moved to the USA from Australia to take up a position in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English at SUNY Buffalo. She moved to the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers University in 2002 and took up her position at Duke in 2012

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor Emerita · 2019 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Emerita of Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies · 2019 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


The in(ter)vention of feminist knowledges

Chapter · January 1, 2024 If we continue to speak this sameness, if we speak to each other as men have spoken for centuries, as they have taught us to speak, we will fail each other. Again… words will pass through our bodies, above our heads, disappear, make us disappear. (Irigaray ... Full text Cite

Feminism and science

Chapter · January 1, 2024 Science today maintains an extremely high social profile. It is not only regarded as the purest and most ideal form of knowledge, it also acts as a paradigm for disinterested, objective and proven knowledge, incontestably providing our most secure sources ... Full text Cite

Introduction

Journal Article Crossing Boundaries: Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges · January 1, 2024 Humanity, Humanities:… learning or literature concerned with human culture; a term including the various branches of polite scholarship, as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and especially the study of ancient Latin and Greek classics. ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Technology Sydney (Australia) · 1981 Ph.D.