Mailing address

The University of New South Wales

Sydney   NSW   2052

Australia

Ph:+612 9385 2290

Fax: +612 9385 1824

e-mail:  V.Kirby@unsw.edu.au

 

 

Vicki Kirby 
Senior Lecturer – Step 4 tenured

School of Sociology

The University of New South Wales

AREAS OF SPECIALTY

Contemporary Critical Theory, Technology and the Post-Human, Cultural Studies, Feminism

Education

  • June 1992: awarded PhD, History of Consciousness Program, University of California Santa Cruz  'Corporeographies: the body at the scene of writing' (Examining Committee: James Clifford, Hayden White, Elizabeth Grosz, Victor Burgin) 

  • 1986: awarded Master of Arts (Prelim.) First Class Honours in Social Anthropology, University of Sydney

  • 1974: awarded graduate Diploma of Education, University of Sydney 

  • 1973: awarded Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney   (Major: English)

Publications

Books

Quantum Anthropologies in process

Judith Butler: Live Theory Continuum, London and New York, forthcoming.

Telling Flesh: the substance of the corporeal New York: Routledge, 1997.

Reviews: Refereed Journals

* G. Weiss, Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol 17, No. 4, pp. 244-247, 2002. (Indiana University Press)

* J. Reynolds, ‘Kirby, Merleau-Ponty, and the Question of Embodied Deconstruction’ Contretemps, Vol 3, July 

2002, pp. 133-147. (University of Sydney)

* M. Joy, Constellations: International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2002, pp. 159-162.

* T. Threadgold,‘Feminist Interpretations and Challenges’ Social Semiotics: A Transdisciplinary Journal in Functional Linguistics, Semiotics and Critical Theory, Vol 10, No. 1, April 2000, pp. 109-123.

* A. Weinstone, Configurations: Journal of Literature, Science and Technology, Vol. 8, 2000, pp. 159-162. (Johns Hopkins University Press)

*A. Pettit, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 29, April 1999, pp. 155-154.

*M. Mutman, ‘Writing the Body: Problematizing Cultural Studies, Postmodernism, and Feminism’s Relevance. A Review of Vicki Kirby Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal, PostModern Culture PMC, Volume 9, No. 3, May 1999, pp. 1-5.  (e-journal Johns Hopkins University Press) 

*C. Waldby, Australian Journal of Communication, Vol 25, No 1, 1998, pp. 156-158.

*P. Deutscher, Australian Humanities Review, November 1997 (e-journal)

 

Non-Refereed Journal

*T. Grinham, ‘Substantial Matters’ The Australian Women’s Book Review, Vol. 10, 1998, pp. 18-20. 

 

EDITED PAPERS

Issues in Feminist Theorising University of Waikato Women's Studies Occasional Paper Series, No. 8, October 1992.

BOOK CHAPTERS

'Out of Africa: ‘Our Bodies Ourselves?’ in O. Nnaemeka (ed), Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge, Greenwood Press, forthcoming.

 

‘Culpability and the Double-Cross: Irigaray with Merleau-Ponty’, D. Olkowski and G Weiss (eds.), Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty, Penn State, forthcoming

 

 ‘Theory Incorporated’ in V. Demos and M. Texler Segal (eds.), The International Feminist Challenge to Theory JAI, Elsevier Science Press, 2001, pp. 25-39.

 

‘Quantum Anthropologies’ in L. Simmons and H. Worth (eds.), Derrida Downunder DunmorePress, 2001, pp. 53-68.

 

'Kopma Noktasinda: Feminizm ve Klitoris Sünneti’ in M. Mutman, F. Keyman and M. Yegenoglu (eds.), Oryantelizm, Hegemonya ve Kültürel Fark Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 1996.

'Response to Jane Gallop's "The Teacher's Breasts": Bad Form', in Jill Julius Matthews (ed.), Jane Gallop Seminar Papers Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1994, pp. 17-22.

 

'Viral Identities: Feminisms and Postmodernisms', in A. Burns and N. Grieve (eds.), Australian Women: Contemporary Feminist Thought Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 120-132.

 

' "Feminisms, reading, postmodernisms": Rethinking Complicity', in S. Gunew and A. Yeatman (eds.), Feminism and the Politics of Difference Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993, pp. 20-34.

 

'Corpus Delicti: the body at the scene of writing' in R. Diprose & R. Ferrell eds., Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the Mapping of Bodies and Spaces Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991, pp. 88-100.

 

REFEREED ARTICLES

‘Just Figures?: Forensic Clairvoyancy, Mathematics and the Language Question’ PostModern Culture (PMC) submitted for consideration.

 

‘Enumerating Language: “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” ‘ Configurations: Journal of Literature, Science and Technology submitted for consideration

 

When All That Is Solid Melts Into Language: Judith Butler and the Question of Matter, International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4, October 2002, pp. 265-280; reprinted in Judith Butler: Ten Years After Gender Trouble in M. Soenser Breen and W. S. Blumenfield (eds.), Ashgate forthcoming.

 

Journal Fragment - Space, Bodies Boundaries and Beliefs, antiTHESIS, Vol. 12, 2001, p. 60

 

’ “There Is A Person Here”: An Interview with Judith Butler’ (several interviewers), International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Vol 6, Numbers 1 & 2, April 2001, pp. 7-23.

 

‘‘Turning Corporeal’ : Horst Ruthrof Semantics and the Body: Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern. (1997) Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press’, Semiotic Review of Books (e-journal) Volume 10, Number 1, 1999 

 

‘Human/Nature’, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol 14, No. 29, April 1999, 19-29.

 

'Review - Warren Shapiro and Uli Linke (eds.) Denying Biology: Essays on Gender and Pseudo-Procreation. Lanham Maryland: University Press of America, Inc., 1996’, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Vol 9: No. 1, April 1998, 122-124.

 

'Feminisms and Postmodernisms: Anthropology and the Management of Difference', Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3, July 1993, 127-133; reprinted as ' "Feminisms, reading, postmodernisms": Rethinking Complicity', in S. Gunew and A. Yeatman (eds.), Feminism and the Politics of Difference Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993. 

 

'Corporeal Habits: addressing essentialism differently', Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1991, 9-24; reprinted as Addressing essentialism differently... some thoughts on the corpo-real University of Waikato, Women's Studies Occasional Paper Series, No. 4, August 1992; reprinted as 'Corpus Delicti: the body at the scene of writing' in R. Diprose & R. Ferrell (eds.), Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the Mapping of Bodies and Spaces Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991.

 

(Invited) 'Comment on Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe, and Colleen Ballerino Cohen "The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions From A Feminist Perspective" ', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 16: No. 2, Winter 1991, 9-15.

 

'Re-writing: Postmodernism and Ethnography', Mankind, Vol. 19: No. 1, April 1989, 36-45.

 

'Capitalising Difference: Feminism and Anthropology', Australian Feminist Studies, No. 9, Autumn 1989, 1-24.

 

'Corporeographies', Inscriptions: Journal for the Critique of Colonial Discourse, Vol. 5, 1989, 103-119; reprinted as 'Corporeographies', West: an interdisciplinary journal, Vol. 1: No. 1, 1989, 8-11.

 

'On the Cutting Edge: Feminism and Clitoridectomy', Australian Feminist Studies, No. 5, Summer 1987, 35-55; reprinted as 'Keskin Kenarda: Feminizm ve Kliteridektomi', in M. Mutman, F. Keyman and M. Yegenoglu (eds.), Hegemonya ve Fark Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 1996 

 

'Review - Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography', Oceania, Vol. 58: No. 4, June 1988, 315-316.

 

ARTICLES

'Value' in P. Bouissac (ed.), Encyclopedia of Semiotics New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 624-627.\

 

'Cultural Difference' in P. Bouissac (ed.), Encyclopedia of Semiotics New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 153-157.

 

Catalog essay - 'Reality Bytes', Apparitions by Vital Signs for Site94, University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, 1994.

 

'Dangerous Liaisons: Feminisms and Lacan', Afterimage, Vol. 18: No. 3, October 1990, 14-15; reprinted as 'Changing the Subject', Refractory Girl, No. 37, December 1990, 49-51.

 

'Interview: Debra Dawes and Vicki Kirby', West: an interdisciplinary journal, Vol. 2: No. 1, 1990, 12-13.

 

'Habeas Corpus', Afterimage, Vol. 17: No. 3, October 1989, 8-9.

 

'Primitive Collage: On Writing Anthropology', The Age Monthly Review, Vol. 9: No. 6, 

September 1989, 19-21.

 

'Telling Flesh', Art & Text, No. 33, Winter 1989, 101-104.

 

'Killing Time' (co-authored with G. Batchen), Photofile, Vol. 3: No. 2, Winter 1985, 25-26. 

 

©Kirby , 2003