Margrit Shildrick
BA (Hons) English (Sussex);
M.Sc Ethics of Health Care (Liverpool);
PhD Interdisciplinary Philosophy and Women’s Studies (Warwick)
Reader in Gender Studies
Room 2.07 College Park East
Ext 3958; Email M.Shildrick@qub.ac.uk
Research
My long term research interests have focused on the body and particularly on the notion of the anomalous body, whether that relates to sex and gender, to disability, to ageing, or to cyborgs. At present I am working on an international project exploring the phenomenology of heart transplant recipients. My approach has always been broadly postmodernist - or at least poststructuralist - and strongly influenced by the ongoing development of feminist theory and of postconventional bioethics. For many years I have done collaborative work on disability, and the area of Critical Disability Studies has more recently become a sharper focus of research. I have recently finished a new book (Dangerous Discourses) which brings together many of my existing interests as well as extending them into legal theory, queer theory and even psychoanalysis. I hope that any students (or intending students) pursuing dissertations or theses in any of those fields will get in contact.
Teaching Interests
Gender studies; feminist theory; postmodernist cultural theory; theories of the body (incl. disability theory); bioethics.Teaching
For the 2008-09 year my major teaching will be two Gender Studies courses in semester 2: 'Challenging Feminist Theory', and 'Sex, Body and Gender'. I also convene a 1st year sociology course and offer sessions on several other courses.
Publications:
Books:
Shildrick, Margrit and Roxanne Mykitiuk (eds) (2005) Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges (MIT Press)
Shildrick, Margrit (2002) Embodying the Monster: Encounters with the Vulnerable Self (Sage)
Price, Janet and Shildrick, Margrit (eds) (1999) Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader (Edinburgh University Press, and [US] Routledge).
Shildrick, Margrit and Price, Janet (eds) (1998) Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Bio/logical Body (Edinburgh University Press).
Shildrick, Margrit (1997) Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics (Routledge).
forthcoming:
Shildrick, Margrit (2009) Dangerous Discourses: Subjectivity, Sexuality and Disability (Palgrave Macmillan)
Shildrick, Margrit and Giffney, Noreen (eds) (2010) Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference (Woodfield Press).
Recent articles:
- ‘The Critical Turn in Feminist Bioethics: the case of heart transplantation’, I.J. of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (Inaugural issue: ‘Doing Feminist Bioethics’), 2008. 1 (1).
- ‘Contesting Normative Embodiment: Some reflections on the psycho-social significance of heart transplant surgery’, Perspectives (Inaugural issue: ‘Body and Embodiment’), 2008. 1.
- ‘Deciding on death: conventions and contestations in the context of disability’, J. of Bioethical Inquiry (Special issue: ‘Disability and Bioethics’), 2008. 5 (2 & 3).
- ‘Corporeal Cuts: Surgery and the Psycho-Social’, Body & Society (Special Issue: ‘Surgery and Embodiment: Carving Out Subjects’, 2008. 14 (1).
- Ethics at the Limit: Levinas, Politics and Responsibility’ in Robin Schott (ed.) Ethics and Existence: Concepts of Love and Evil, pp. 6-86 (2008 Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum).
- ‘Dangerous Discourses: Disability, Anxiety and Desire’, Studies in Gender and Sexuality 2007, 8.3
- ‘A Reply to Bardach and Hannabach’, Studies in Gender and Sexuality 2007, 8.3.
- ‘Contested Pleasures: the Socio-political Economy of Disability and Sexuality’, J. of Sexuality Research & Social Policy, 2007, 3.3: 51-75.
- 'Monstrous Reflections on the Mirror of the Selfsame' - in Beliefs, Bodies and Being: Feminist Reflections on Embodiment - ed. Deborah Orr (2006 Rowman Littlefield).
- Deleuzian Connections and Queer Corporealities: Shrinking Global Disability’ (with Janet Price), Rhizomes 11, Fall 2005.
- ‘Transgressing the Law with Foucault and Derrida’, Critical Quarterly 2005. 47.3 .
- ‘The Disabled Body: Genealogy and Undecidability’, Cultural Studies 2005. 19.6.
- ‘Unreformed Bodies: Normative Anxiety and the Denial of Pleasure’ in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2005. 34 (3-4).
- ‘Beyond the Body of Bioethics’ in M. Shildrick and R. Mykitiuk (eds) Ethics of the Body (2005 MIT Press).
