Elaine Miller

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago
• M.A. Boston College
• M.A. Bosphorus University (Istanbul)
• B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Teaching Interests

I enjoy teaching all levels of philosophy courses. Introductory courses have a unique energy generated by the encounter with what is a new discipline for most students; intermediate courses in existentialism and the philosophy of art attract students with a burgeoning interest in the history of ideas; and upper-level courses are satisfying because of the depth of the discussion.

Courses Taught

• Society and the Individual
  
• Philosophy of Art
  
• Existentialism
  
• Nineteenth Century Philosophy
  
• Advanced Aesthetics
  
• French Feminism

Research Interests

My scholarship lies in three distinct areas: nineteenth century German philosophy (late Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche), aesthetics, and French feminist theory (Beauvoir, Irigaray, Kristeva), often in conversation with each other. I am interested in conceptions of nature and art, and how they reflect and inform ideas of intersubjectivity and the relationship between humans and nature. I have an abiding interest in the Frankfurt school, especially the aesthetic theory of Benjamin and Adorno, and in the philosophy of Arendt.

Professional Recognition

• Summer Research Appointment, Miami University, 2018, “Blueprints of the Existing World: Reality, Truth, and Estrangement”
• Emory University Institute for the History of Philosophy summer workshop on Fichte and German Romanticism, 2018
• Selected to be a member of the College of Fellows, University of Western Sydney, Australia, 2017-19
  Executive Director, philoSOPHIA society for Continental Feminism
• Emory University Institute for the History of Philosophy summer workshop on Kant's Political Philosophy, 2016
• 2015 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize for Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times (Columbia University Press, 2014)
• Altman Fellow, "The Senses," Miami University, 2015-16

Selected Publications

Books

• Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times, Columbia University Press, 2014 (Monograph)
• The Vegetative Soul: From Philosophy of Nature to Subjectivity in the Feminine. Albany: State University of New York Press, July 2002 (Monograph)
• Returning to Irigaray, co-edited with Maria Cimitile. State University of New York Press, November 2006 (Edited Volume)

Articles

• "Hegel on Reflection and Reflective Judgment," Hegel Bulletin, forthcoming
• "Julia Kristeva on the Severed Head and other Maternal Capital Visions," Library of Living Philosophers, forthcoming
• “Investing in a Third: Colonization, Religious Fundamentalism, and Adolescence in Julia Kristeva’s New Forms of Revolt,” Journal of French and Francophone Studies, December 2014
• "Photography as Primal Phenomenon," Oxford Literary Review 32(2), December 2010
• "Negativity, Iconoclasm, Mimesis: Kristeva and Benjamin on Political Art," Idealistic Studies 38:1-2 (2008), 55-74

Book Chapters

• “The Nineteenth Century,” in Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, eds. Ann Garry, Serene Khader, and Alison Stone, New York: Routledge: 2017
• “Aesthetic Quantity, Purposiveness, and Willed Necessity in Nietzsche’s Engagement with Kant’s Critique of Judgment,” in Nietzsche and Kant: Aesthetics, Anthropology, and History, eds. Katia Hey and Maria Joao Branco. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016
• “Peregrine Genius and Thought Things: Julia Kristeva and Hannah Arendt on Salutary Estrangement,” New Forms of Revolt, eds. Sarah Hansen and Rebecca Tuvel. Albany: SUNY Press, 2016