Chair
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Email: rjones23@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.4328
Mail Stop: Honors College, MSN 1F4
Campus: Fairfax
Office: Horizon Hall 6269
Biography
Professor Jones received her B.A. in Philosophy and German from St. John's College, Oxford University, and her MA and PhD in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick. Her teaching and research interests include key thinkers and themes in continental and feminist philosophy (such as Kant, Nietzsche, Lyotard, and Irigaray; self and body, the sublime, sexual difference). She is interested in working with art and literature to explore philosophical questions and in the intersection of feminist philosophy with perspectives from queer theory, transnational feminisms, critical philosophies of race, and decolonial theory. Her current research takes Kant's essays on the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 as a prompt for re-interrogating human beings' relations to materiality, natality, and difference. Dr. Jones is a member of the Executive Committees for the and for .She currently serves as a 'Member at Large' for the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP).
Selected Publications
鈥楾hinking Otherwise with Irigaray and Maximin,鈥� in Thinking: A Philosophical History, eds D. Whistler and Y. Vassilopoulou (Routledge, 2021), pp.236-250.
'Dissonance, Resistance, and Perspectival Pedagogies,' in Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom, eds Ada S. Jaarsma and Kit Dobson (University of Alberta Press, 2020), pp.117-134.
'Kant, Hegel and Irigaray: From Chemism to the Elemental,' in Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature and Religion (in memoriam: Gary Banham), Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, eds Sorin Baiasu and Alberto Vanzo (Routledge, 2020), pp. 146-170.
'Philosophical 惭茅迟颈蝉蝉补驳别 and the Decolonization of Difference: Luce Irigaray, Daniel Maximin, and the Elemental Sublime,' Special Issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, 5:2, 2018; 139-156.
'The Anthropocene and Elemental Multiplicity,' co-authored with Emily Parker, English Language Notes, Special Issue: Environmental Trajectories, Vol. 55. 1/2, Fall 2017; 61-69.
鈥楢ctive Matter and Vital Materiality: Between Irigaray and Bennett鈥�, Special Issue of Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology on 'Irigaray and Ecofeminism', Vol. 46.2, 2015; 156-172.
鈥楻e-Reading Diotima: Resources for a Relational Pedagogy鈥�, Special Issue of Journal of Philosophy of Education: 鈥楻e-imagining Relationships in Education: Ethics, Politics and Practices鈥�, ed. M. Griffiths et al, Vol 48 Issue 2, 2014; 183-201.
鈥極n the Value of Not Knowing: Wonder, Beginning Again, and Letting Be鈥�, in On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, E. Fischer and R. Fortnum, eds. (London: Black Dog Publishing, September 2013).
鈥楲yotard and Irigaray on Eros, Infancy and Birth: the Dissymmetrical Horizons of Being Between鈥�, in Jean-Fran莽ois Lyotard: New Encounters, H. Bickis and R. Shields, eds. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013).
鈥楢dventures in the Abyss: Kant, Irigaray and Earthquakes鈥�, Symposium: Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy, Volume 17.1, Spring 2013.
鈥業rigaray and Lyotard: Birth, Infancy, and Metaphysics鈥�, Hypatia, Vol. 27 Issue 1, Winter 2012.
Luce Irigaray: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy, Key Contemporary Thinkers series (Cambridge: Polity, 2011).
Courses Taught
PHIL 156 - What is Art?
PHIL 329 - Philosophy After Auschwitz
PHIL 336 - Twentieth-Century Continental Thought - Existentialism
PHIL 338 - Philosophy, Race and Gender
PHIL 421 - Philosophy Seminar (Nietzsche)
PHIL 721 - Graduate Seminar: Kant's third Critique; Lyotard and Nancy; Birth, Death, and the Human.
PHIL 730 - Nietzsche and his Readers
WMST 630/PHIL 694 - Feminist Theory Across the Disciplines
HNRS 110 - Research Methods
HNRS 130 - Conceptions of Self
HNRS 240 - Reading the Past: Body Politics 鈥� Women and the Political