Helen Fielding
Professor
Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies & PhilosophyMA, PhD (York)
Office: Lawson Hall
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext 84548
hfieldin@uwo.ca
http://works.bepress.com/helen_fielding/
Research
My research is primarily in feminist phenomenology though my background, my teaching and writing are interdisciplinary in scope. I often write on artworks in order to think about certain questions from an embodied perspective. Thematically, I explore questions about the intersections of technology, art, perception, embodiment, and subjectivity.
Recent Publications
Books
Fielding, H. A., Co-edited with Mariana Ortega. Life in Art: Phenomenology and World Making. Forthcoming April 2026 (340 pages)
Fielding, H. A. Cultivating Perception Through Artworks: Phenomenological Enactments of Ethics, Politics and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. November, 2021.
Recent Articles
Fielding, H. A. “Chiasm as a Concept in Phenomenology”, in Encyclopaedia of Phenomenology, N. de Warren and T. Toadvine (eds). Springer: 2025
Fielding, H. A. "Being Touched by Wellness: Merleau-Ponty, Nancy and the Intensive Care Unit”, Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. On-line open access journal, 2024.
Fielding, H. A. “A Critical Phenomenology of Sound Art,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music, Jonathan De Souza, Benjamin Steege, and Jessica Wiskus, editors, 2023.
Selected Publications
Books Edited
Fielding, H. A. Editor.“Critical Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty’s Open Futures”, a dossier in Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought. Vol. 25 (2023): 175-241, including Introduction: “Dialogue with Anishinaabe Thinking”, pp. 175-183
Helen A. Fielding and Dorothea E. Olkowski (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology Futures, Indiana University Press, October 2017. (364 pages).
Christina Schües, Dorothea Olkowski and Helen A. Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press, 2011. (196 pages).
Articles
“Janet Cardiffs epochale Topographie,” in Macht—Knoten—Fleish: Topographien des Körpers bei Foucault, Lacan und Merleau-Ponty. Translated by Anna Wieder and Sergej Seitz. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2020, pp. 301-312.
“The Habit Body”, in 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (eds.). Northwestern University Press, 2019, pp. 155-160.
“Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto,” in Feminist Phenomenology Futures, H. Fielding and D. Olkowski, eds. Indiana University Press, 2017, pp. vii-xxii.
“Open Future, Regaining Possibility,” in Feminist Phenomenology Futures, H. Fielding and D. Olkowski, eds. Indiana University Press, 2017, pp. 91-109.
“Dwelling and Public Art: Serra and Bourgeois”, in Rachel McCann and Patricia Locke (eds.), Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture, 2016. Ohio University Press, 258-281.
"Filming Dance: Embodied Syntax in Sasha Waltz's 'S', Paragraph (Special issue on 'Screening Embodiment') 38.1 (2015): 69-85.
“The Poetry of Habit”, in Silvia Stoller (ed.) Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter Publishers. 2014, pp. 69-81.
"Intermittent Relations: Questioning 'Homeland' Through Yael Bartana's Wild Seeds", in Christina Schues, Dorothea Olkowski and Helen Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press, 2011, pp. 149-170.
"Cultivating Perception: Phenomenological Encounters with Artworks”, Signs: Journal on Women in Culture and Society. Symposium on "Politics of the Sensing Subject: Gender, Perception, Art," Anne Keefe (ed). 40.2 (2015): 280-289.
“Multiple moving perceptions of the real: Arendt, Merleau-Ponty and Truitt,” Hypatia (special issue on embodiment and ethics). 26.3 (2011): 518-534.
