Curriculum Vitae

JAMI WEINSTEIN, Ph.D.
LiU Forskarassistent (University Research Associate)
Tema Genus • Linköping University

EDUCATION

PRE-DOCTORAL DEGREES
(a) Bachelor’s Degree
Barnard College of Columbia University (BA 1990, Philosophy and Political Science)
• Gonzaga University, Florence, Italy (1988-1989)

(b) Master’s Degree
New York University, New York, NY (MA 1996, Philosophy)

DOCTORAL DEGREES
(a) City University of New York Graduate Center, CUNY (Ph.D. 2005, Philosophy with Graduate certificate in Women’s Studies; title: Returning to the Level of the Skin and Beyond: A Techno-zoontology; supervisor: Sibyl Schwarzenbach)

(b) École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Doctorat 2007, Histoire des Techniques; title: En revenir au niveau de la peau, et au delà: une techno-zoontologie; supervisor: Michel Tibon-Cornillot)
• La Sorbonne–Université de Paris IV (1999-2000)

TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS

CURRENT POSITION
Linköping University (2010 to present LiU forskarassistent/Assistant Professor/Director of The Zoontology Research Team)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS
• Utrecht University (2008-2010, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Department)
• Universitetet i Bergen (Spring 2006-2009, Foreign Research Fellow: SKOK)
• Mount Holyoke College (2006-2008, Visiting Assistant Professor, Gender Studies and Philosophy Departments)
• Vassar College (2001-2006, Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies Program; Philosophy Department; Science, Technology and Society Program; and Environmental Studies Program)
• Södertörns Högskola (Fall 2005, Visiting Researcher, Genusvetenskap)
• City University of New York, Bernard Baruch College (1997-1999, Lecturer, Philosophy Department; 2000-2002, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Philosophy Department)
• City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1993-1998, Lecturer, Philosophy Department)
• State University of New York, Purchase (Spring 1997, Lecturer, Philosophy Department)
• City University of New York, Hunter College (1996-1997, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Philosophy Department/1994-6; 1997, Lecturer, Philosophy Department)

PROJECTS

• Conflict Zones: Genocide, Extinction, and the Inhuman. Seeking funding. The working hypothesis of this study is that the conflict between humans and their environment – evidenced now in climate change and resource depletion – needs to be considered alongside other species threats, including genocide, bioterrorism and the cultural tensions among disciplines, nations, religions and ethnicities. (click link for more comprehensive information)

• Thought as Action: Gender, Democracy, Freedom. SKOK, Bergen, Norway 2009-2012. The project brings together more than 20 international interdisciplinary researchers and is organized around three different themes: citizenship, bodies and sexualities, and new technologies. The project’s main problematic focuses on the question: Which theories and mode(s) of thought will allow for a thorough rethinking of the questions of gender, democracy and freedom in our global and technological era?

• The Posthumanities Network: The Next Genderation. While still on the faculty in Gender Studies at the University of Utrecht, I became a member of this international posthumanist network connecting scholars and scientists working at the intersection of gender/feminist/queer theory and posthuman/animal studies. My contribution to the project thus far has been to link my existing network of scholars to both Cecilia Åsberg's network through her Posthumanities Hub and our overlapping network. I mobilized the following people/research groups for the project:

(i) Queen’s University, Canada: The NONHuman Research Group (headed by Prof. Myra J. Hird, Sociology, Obstetrics and Gynecology).
(ii) Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA: The Animal Studies Program (headed by Prof. Lori Gruen and Prof. Kari Weil)
(iii) Utrecht University, The Netherlands: The Posthuman Study Group (with key researchers Distinguished
Prof. Rosi Braidotti, Director of Centre for Humanities; and Jami Weinstein, Gender Studies, University of Utrecht)

PUBLICATIONS

Books
Editor, Inhuman Rites and Posthumous Life. (with Claire Colebrook, under review at Columbia University Press, 2012)

Editor, Deleuze and Gender (with Claire Colebrook). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Articles
“Transgenres and the Plane of Gender Imperceptibility.” Critical Lines, Feminist Flights: Mobilizing Future Concepts, Bodies and Subjectivities in Feminist Thought and Practice, ed. Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni and Fanny Söderbäck (New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming,2012).

“Reality TV: Social Life as Laboratory Experiment.” In Fenomenologi och teknik. (Södertörn Philosophical Studies, forthcoming, 2012, in Swedish).

“Transgenres and the Plane of Language, Species, and Evolution.” Lambda Nordica, 2011.

“A Requiem to Sexual Difference: A Response to Luciana Parisi’s ‘Event and Evolution.’” The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 2010, Volume 48, Spindel Supplement.

“Introduction Part II” in Deleuze and Gender (with Claire Colebrook). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Book introduction.

“Challenging Dissent: The Ontology and Logic of Lawrence v. Texas.” Cardozo Women’s Law Journal. Winter 2004, vol.10, no.2. [with Tobyn DeMarco]

“Traces of the Beast: Becoming-Nietzsche, Becoming-Animal, and the Figure of the Trans-Human.” In A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal. Edited by Ralph and Christa Acampora. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).

“Comblement/Fulfillment: Toward an Ontological Ethics of Sex.” Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture, 71-95. Edited by Yolanda Estes, et al. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000) [with Jeffrey Bussolini].

“On the Leveling of the Genre Distinction Between Theory and Fiction.” Conference: A Journal of Philosophy and Theory 5:1, 35-47, 1994.

Monograph In Progress
Returning to the Skin: A MicroZoontoloy (tentative title)

Articles in Progress
• “The Blasphemy of Life” (in progress, invited to appear in volume Against Life, Alastair Hunt and Stephanie Youngblood, eds.)
• “Posthuman Affect” (in progress, invited to appear in volume Affective Tendencies, Elizabeth Grosz, Jasbir Puar, and Ellen Mortensen, eds.)
• “Species Interdependence and the Myth of Corporeal Autonomy”
• “Divining Queer: Buddhism, Heraclitus, Lacan, and Queer Identity”
• “Incorporating Ethics: Transcending Locke’s Three Concepts of Property”

SELECT PRESENTATIONS

"Transgenres: Zoopolitics and The Dandy" Södertörn Högskola, Stockholm, Sweden, 11/22/11.

"Theory Sex" University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 11/3/11.

“Posthumous Life: Toward an Inhuman Ethico-politics,” Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA 10/21/11.

“Posthuman Affects: The Ontology, Methodologies, and Promise of Affective Theorizing,” Uppsala University, Sweden 11/19/10.

“The Move to Genre: Evolution and Imperceptibility,” Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Montreal, Canada 11/5/10and University of Dundee, Scotland, 2/3/10.

“Posthuman Affect,” Rutgers University, New Jersey 10/8/10.

“Reality TV: Life in the Petri Dish,” KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, 11/03/09.

“Response to Luciana Parisi: Sexes of Evolution,” Spindel Conference, University of Memphis 09/26/09.

“Response to Sarah Ahmed,” 7th Europeen Feminist Conference, Utrecht University 06/05/09.

“We Have Never Been Human: Feminist Posthumanism and the Zoontological” Meet Animal Meat Conference Uppsala, Sweden 05/23/09.

“Transspecies/Transgenre: A New Understanding of Gender and Sexual Difference,” Linköping University, Sweden 10/29/08.

“Toward a Fundamental Transhuman Zoontology,” Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, PA 10/18/08.

“Zoontology: Evolution, Animality, and Becoming-Animal,” International Deleuze Studies Conference, Cardiff, Wales 08/13/08.

“How Important Is Sexual Difference? Reflections on Irigaray, Deleuze, and Haraway,” Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, Illinois 11/9/07.

“Zoontology,” Gender, Animals, and Society Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden 08/28/07.

“Beyond Gender Trouble: The Recent Work of Judith Butler,” Gender Studies Department, Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm, Sweden 12/07/05.

“Ontological Foundations for a Queerfeminist Politics,” Gender Studies Department, Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm, Sweden 10/12/05.

“Ontological Terrorism and the Interspecies Antidote,” Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy Conference, Reading University UK, 9/10/05.

“Interspecies Ontology and Gender,” Filosofidagarna, Uppsala University, Sweden 06/11/05.

“Species Interdependence, Vulnerability, and the Myth of Corporeal Autonomy,” Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Memphis 10/30/04.

“Reality Television: Social Life as Laboratory Experiment,” 4S/EASST Conference, École des Mines, Paris, France, 08/28/04, and at Vassar College 4/4/03.

“How The Sodomite Became A Person: Equality, Dignity, And Sexual Autonomy,” International Association of Women in Philosophy, University of Göteborg, Sweden 06/18/04.

Respondent and Chair: “Techno Queer,” Queer Matters Conference, King’s College, London, UK 05/30/04.

“Transhuman Corporeality: Affect, Force, and the Trans-species Body,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse University 05/21/04.

Research