Linnell Secomb
Courses
Emotions in the Social World
Head of Department
Lecturer in Sociology
Tel: 020 8331 8951
Email: l.secomb@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 339
Office Hours
Monday 2-4 pm
Tuesday 2-4 pm
Qualifications
PhD Philosophy, University of Sydney
BA Hons Philosophy, University of Sydney
BA Hons Political Economy, University of Sydney
Linnell has previously taught in philosophy, cultural studies and gender studies at various Australian universities. Her research areas included continental philosophy, social philosophy, popular culture and aesthetics, community formation, gender theory, politics and ethics. She is especially interested in theories of the subject and understandings of intimate relations between subjects. She has recently completed a book titled Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture and is currently working on two further projects – on the social constructions and performances of emotion and on ethnicity and attainment.
Selected Publications
Books
Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture, co-published by Edinburgh University Press and Indiana University Press, 2007
Refereed Journal Articles
Derrida’s Other Ends of Man, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol 23, No 1, September 2010, pp299-313
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
Autohanatographia, 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 Studies, 4, 1995, pp 19-38
The 'Malencholic' Entombment of Feminine Being, Australian Feminist Studies, 21, 1995, pp 187-202
Book Chapters
Rrapping Irigaray: Flesh, Passion, World, in Nicole Anderson and Katrina Schlunke, (eds), Cultural Practice and Everyday Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (in-press) 2008
Words That Matter: Reading the Performativity of Humanity through Butler and Blanchot, in 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
Edited Journal Special Issues and Sections
Guest co-editor (with Penelope Deutscher), Australian Feminist Studies, Special section on Gender and Temporality, 21 (51), 2006
Guest editor, Cultural Studies Review, Special Issue on Affective Communities, 9 (1), 2003