Philosophy Program
Staff Profiles
| Dr Philipa Rothfield |
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Position Senior Lecturer
Room: Hu2 206
Tel: +61 3 9479 2541
Fax: +61 3 9479 3639
Email: p.rothfield@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA, PhD (Mon.) |
Background
- Dr Philipa Rothfield has lectured in women's studies, cultural and social theory;
- member of the Chinese Medicine Registration Board of Victoria;
- dances and reviews performance for RealTime, an Australian arts magazine;
- Convenor of the Choreography and Corporeality working group of the Federation of International Theatre Research;
- founding member of the Global Reconciliation Network;
- currently working on philosophy of the body, drawing upon dance practice as a site of its articulation;
- recently completed work on phenomenological approaches to the body;
- now researching the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche on corporeality.
Research Interests
- Contemporary European Philosophy
Feminism and epistemology
Merleau-Ponty
Philosophy of the body
Postmodernism
- Feminism
Postmodernism
Sexuality
Sexual difference
- Philosophy of the body
Phenomenology
Dance and movement
Biomedicine and the body
Teaching
Discourse, Body, Knowledge
Postmodernism: Metaphysics, Politics
Publications
'Philosophy and the Bodily Arts', Parallax 46, January-March 2008, pp. 24-35.
'Resistance and Reconciliation, Antinomies of Post-traumatic Justice', Trauma, Historicity, Philosophy, Sharp, M. et al (eds), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, pp. 141-160.
'Surviving Reconciliation, From the Social to the Singular', Radical Psychology, Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2007.
Co-editor, with P. Komesaroff and J. Daly, of Reinterpreting Menopause, Cultural and Philosophical Issues, Routledge 1997.
Co-editor of a special issue of the journal Topoi vol. 24, no. 1, 2005 on philosophy and dance.
Chapter on phenomenology, the body and medical ethics in Ethics of the Body, Postconventional Challenges, M. Shildrick and R. Mykituk (eds), MIT Press, 2005.
Further publications, editorship & conference organisation
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