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Associate Professor
Chair, Philosophy Department
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1996
205 Thornton
646-2827
Office Hours: By Appointment
Go to: Faculty member's Web
site
Professor Allen received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern
University. Her research interests are in contemporary Continental philosophy,
social and political Theory, and feminist theory, with a particular focus on
critical social theory. In 2003, she held an American Fellowship from the
American Association of University Women.
Professor Allen has written 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
(Columbia University Press, forthcoming). She has also published many articles
on the topics of power, subjectivity, agency, and autonomy in the work of
Foucault, Habermas, Butler, and Arendt. She is a member of the executive
committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
and the editor of the Columbia University Press series New Directions in
Critical Theory.
Courses
Summer 2007
Fall 2007
Winter 2008
Spring 2008
- 17 (11) Phenomenology and Existentialism
Summer 2008
Fall 2008
- 1 (12) Introduction to the Problems of Philosophy
- 80 (10A) Advanced Seminar: Critical Social Theory
Winter 2009
- 18 (10) Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Spring 2009
Selected Publications
- The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary
Critical Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming
2007).
- The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999).
- "Systematically Distorted Subjectivity? Habermas and the Critique of
Power," Philosophy and Social Criticism 33: 5 (July 2007): 641-650.
- "Dependency, Subordination, and Recognition: On Judith Butler's Theory
of Subjection," Continental Philosophy Review 38 (2006): 199-222.
- "Feminist Perspectives on Power," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
/http://plato.stanford.edu/. (posted October, 2005).
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