Staff profile

Dr Philipa Margaret Rothfield

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry

HU2 206, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA Hons, PhD (Monash).

Membership of professional associations

International Federation of Theatre Research; Australian Society of Continental Philosophy.

Area of study

Philosophy
Gender
Sexuality and Diversity Studies

Brief profile

I work in philosophy of the body, in particular, in relation to Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Klossowski. I also write on reconciliation, drawing on European and political philosophy as a resource. Between 2003 and 2009, I was a member of the Chinese Medicine Registration Board of Victoria. I also review dance for RealTime Magazine (Australia) and MOMM Magazine (Korea). I am also co-convenor of the Choreography and Corporeality Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research.

Research interests

Gender, Culture, Sexuality

- Feminism

History of Philosophy

- Philosophy of the body

Philosophy of the Mind

- Contemporary European philosophy

Teaching units

 

PHI2MMW - Making of the Modern Philosophical World View. PHI2/3PMP - Postmodernism: Metaphysics and Politics. PHI2/3DBK - Discourse, Body, Knowledge. PHI1GPI - Great Philosophical Ideas.

Recent publications

Pathways to Reconciliation, Between Theory and Practice, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2008. Co-edited with Cleo Fleming and Paul Komesaroff.

 

Differentiating Phenomenology and Dance”, Routledge Dance Studies Reader, Alexandra Carter and Janet O’Shea (eds), London and New York: Routledge Books, (2010).

 

Between the Foot and the Floor, Dancing with Nietzsche and Klossowski”, in Queering Somatechnics, Nikki Sullivan and Sam Cadwaller (eds), Ashgate Publishers, 2009. Pp.207-224.

 

Evaluating Reconciliation”, in Pathways to Reconciliation, Between Theory and Practice, London: Ashgate Publishers, 2008, pp.15-27. Co-edited with Cleo Fleming and Paul Komesaroff.

 

Living Well and Health Studies”, Merleau-Ponty, Key Concepts, Stocksfield, UK: Acumen Publishing, 2008, pp.218-227.

 

Resistance and Reconciliation, Antinomies of Post-traumatic Justice”, Trauma, Historicity, Philosophy, Sharp, M. et al (eds), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, pp.141-160.

 

Attending to Difference, Phenomenology and Bioethics”, in Ethics of the Body, Margrit Shildrick and Roxanne Mykitiuk (eds), Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005, pp. 29-48.

 

Philosophy and the Bodily Arts”, Parallax, 46, January – March 2008, pp.24-35.

 

Feeling Feelings, The Work of Russell Dumas through Whitehead’s Process and Reality”, Inflexions, Issue no.2, January 2009, http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_2/nodes/rothfield_1.html 

Research projects

I am currently working on dance and philosophy