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Helen Fielding
BA Carleton; MA, PhD York

  • Associate Professor
  • Joint Appointment with Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research
  • Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Phenomenology

Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85752
Office: Stevenson Hall, Room 3143
E-mail: hfieldin@uwo.ca 

2012-2013 Teaching

  • PHIL 3555G - Continental Philosophy

Selected Publications

Books Edited

  • Co-editor (with Christina Schües and Dorothea Olkowski) Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press 2011
  • Co-editor (with Gabrielle Hiltmann, Dorothea Olkowski and Anne Reichhold) The Other: Feminist reflections in Ethics, Palgrave Publishers, 2007.
  • Co-editor with Mauro Carbone of Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought. Volume title: Vie et Individuation, vol. 7(2005).

Book Chapters Authored

  • "Intermittent Relations: Questioning ‘Homeland’ Through Yael Bartana’s Wild Seeds", in Christina Schües, Dorothea Olkowski and Helen Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press, 2011
  • "The Invisible Interlacing between Fleshes: Conversation between Luce Irigaray and Helen A. Fielding”. In Luce Irigaray, Ed. Conversations, London: Continuum, 2008, pp. 107-121 (extension of interview previously published in Continental Philosophy Review). 
  • "White Logic and the Constancy of Colour", Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty, Eds. Dorothea Olkowski and Gail Weiss, State Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006: 71-89.

Journal Articles

  • “Multiple moving perceptions of the real: Arendt, Merleau-Ponty and Truitt” Hypatia (special issue on embodiment and ethics). 26.3 (2011): 518-534.
  • “This Body of Art: The Singular Plural of the Feminine”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 36.3 (October 2005): 277-292. 
  • "Questioning Nature:  Irigaray, Heidegger and the Potentiality of Matter", Continental Philosophy Review, 36.1: 2003: 1-26 .

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