Penelope Ingram, Associate Professor, received her PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is a specialist in feminist and postcolonial theory. Her book, The Signifying Body: Towards an Ethics of Sexual and Racial Difference, argues for a relationship between the “fundamental ontology” of Martin Heidegger and an ethics of sexual and racial difference, as theorized respectively by Luce Irigaray and Frantz Fanon.
Representative Publications
The Signifying Body: Towards an Ethics of Sexual and Racial Difference. Forthcoming from SUNY Press, 2008. Gender Theory Series, Tina Chanter, editor.
“Representing the Irish Body: Reading Ned's Armor.” Antipodes: Journal of the American Association of Australian Studies 20:1 ( June 2006): 12-19. Research for this article was funded by a grant from the NEH.
“Racializing Babylon : Settler Whiteness and the ‘New Racism.'” New Literary History 32:1 (Winter 2001): 157-176.
“From Goddess Spirituality to Irigaray's Angel: The Politics of the Divine.” Feminist Review 66 (Autumn 2000): 46-72.
“'One Drifts Apart': To the Lighthouse as Art of Response.” Philosophy and Literature (April 1999): 78-95.
“Can the Settler Speak?: Appropriating Subaltern Silence in Janet Frame's The Carpathians ,” Cultural Critique 41 (Winter 1998/99): 79-107.
Dr. Ingram's current research examines the role of ethics and sexual difference in Derrida's work.
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