Professor of Philosophy
Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities
Chair, Philosophy Department
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1996
205 Thornton
646-2827
Office Hours: By Appointment
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Professor Allen began teaching at Dartmouth in 1997, after receiving her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University. Her research and teaching interests are in Continental philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of critical social theory, poststructuralism, and feminist theory. She teaches courses on a variety of figures and movements in 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, phenomenology, existentialism, critical theory, poststructuralism, deconstruction and French feminism. She has published widely on the topics of power, subjectivity, agency, and autonomy in the work of Foucault, Habermas, Butler and Arendt, including two books: The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity (Westview, 1999) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2008). Her current research project focuses on the relationship between power and reason in the critical theory tradition.
Professor Allen is a member of the executive committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), book review editor for the journal Constellations, and Series Editor of the Columbia University Press book series New Directions in Critical Theory.
