Dr Linnell Secomb

Linnell has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney and has taught in philosophy and gender studies at a number of Australian universities. Her research areas include Continental philosophy, social philosophy, gender theory, politics and ethics. She has recently completed a book titled Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture and is currently working on two further projects - on friendship and on humanism.

Books
Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture, co-published by Edinburgh University Press and Indiana University Press, 2007)

Refereed Journal Articles

Killing Time: Simone de Beauvoir on Temporality and Mortality, Australian Feminist Studies, 21 (51), 2006, pp 343-353

Amorous Politics: Between Derrida and Nancy, Social Semiotics, 16 (3), 2006, pp 449-460)

Petyarre and Moffatt: Looking from the sky, Cultural Studies Review, 12 (1), 2006, pp 44-56

Hybrid Freedom, Studies in Practical Philosophy, 3 (1), 2003, pp 106-122

Interrupting Mythic Community, Cultural Studies Review, 9 (1), 2003, pp 85-100

Autothanatographia, Mortality, 7 (1), 2002, pp 33-46

Fractured Community, Hypatia 15 (2), 2000, pp 133-150

Beauvoir’s Minoritarian Philosophy, Hypatia, 14 (4), 1999, pp 96-113

Philosophical Deaths and Feminine Finitude, Mortality, 4 (2), 1999, pp 111-125

IVF: Reproducing ‘the proper family of man’, The Australian Feminist Law Journal, 4, 1995, pp 19-38

The ‘Malencholic’ Entombment of Feminine Being, Australian Feminist Studies, 21, 1995, pp 187-202

Book Chapters

Words That Matter: Reading the Performativity of Humanity through Butler and Blanchot, Bronwyn Davies, (ed), Judith Butler: Lived Experience, New York: Routledge, 2007

Haunted Community, in Michael Strysick, (ed), The Politics of Community, Davis Group, Colorado, 2002, pp 131-150

Current Teaching

GCST2608: Gender, Communities and Difference

GCST2610: Intimacy, Love and Friendship

PHIL2609: Contemporary French Philosophy