Elizabeth A. Wilson is a Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University.[1] She is a scholar of feminist science studies, and her work brings together psychoanalytic theory, affect theory, feminist and queer theory, and neurobiology.[2] She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (1998), Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (2004), Affect and Artificial Intelligence (2010), and Gut Feminism (2015).[1]
Elizabeth Ann Wilson | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Otago, University of Sydney |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies |
| Institutions | University of Western Sydney, Australian National University, University of Sydney, Emory University |
Education edit
Wilson graduated from University of Otago in New Zealand with a B.Sc. in psychology.[1] As an undergraduate, she majored in psychology in part because they did not have a women's studies department though she continued her support of feminist issues outside of the classroom.[3] She graduated from the University of Sydney with a Ph.D. in psychology.[1]
Career edit
Wilson is a Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University.[1] She joined Emory University in 2009.[3] Prior to her appointment at Emory University, she was an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of New South Wales.[1][2] The Australian Research Council funded a project titled "The Embodiment of Melancholy: A Feminist Analysis of Depression" that investigated a multidisciplinary approach to understanding depression.[4]
She has held positions at the University of Western Sydney, the Australian National University, and the University of Sydney.[1] She was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and she was a Helen Putnam Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[1][2] While a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, she completed research for her book Gut Feminism.[2]
She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (1998), Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (2004), Affect and Artificial Intelligence (2010), and Gut Feminism (2015).[1] Neural Geographies encourages feminist psychologists to think the biological body, and in Psychosomatic she continues this theme of exploring the relationship between biology and psychology.[5][6] In Affect and Artificial Intelligence, she provides perspectives on artificial intelligence research, the relationship of humans and technology, and the psychosocial contexts of computers.[7] Her most recent book, Gut Feminism, focuses on depression and explores how antidepressant pharmaceutical data can be useful to feminists.[1] Her research adds to the work of feminist science scholars more broadly in rethinking the relationship between nature and culture.[8]
Works edit
- Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition. Routledge. 1998. ISBN 978-0415916004.
- Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body. Duke University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8223-3365-4.
- Affect and Artificial Intelligence. University of Washington Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-295-80000-4.
- Gut Feminism. Duke University Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-8223-7520-3.
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Elizabeth Wilson". wgss.emory.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- ^ a b c d "Elizabeth A. Wilson | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University". www.radcliffe.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
- ^ a b "Elizabeth Wilson: Scientist feminist creates new models of inquiry". www.emory.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ^ "The Embodiment of Melancholy: A Feminist Analysis of Depression". Research Data Australia. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
- ^ "'Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition' by Elizabeth Wilson – AHR". Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- ^ "A review of Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body by Elizabeth Wilson – AHR". Retrieved 2020-06-09.
- ^ Stahnisch, Frank W. (2011). "Elizabeth A. Wilson: Affect and Artificial Intelligence". Isis. 102 (4): 818–819. doi:10.1086/664907. ISSN 0021-1753.
- ^ Laubender, Carolyn (2016). "Book Review: Gut Feminism". Journal of International Women's Studies. 17 (1).
External links edit
- Kirby, Vicki; Wilson, Elizabeth A. (2011). Roberts, Celia; Hird, Myra J. (eds.). "Feminist conversations with Vicki Kirby and Elizabeth A. Wilson". Feminist Theory. 12 (2). SAGE Publications: 227–234. doi:10.1177/1464700111404289. ISSN 1464-7001. S2CID 145128637.
- "Elizabeth A. Wilson, "Gut Feminism" (Duke UP, 2015)". 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2018-01-23.