Christina Howells
Emeritus Fellow
Biography
Research
Professor Howells's research work centres on Continental philosophy, literary theory, and twentieth-century French literature.
She is particularly interested in post-war French thought, for example Sartre, Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Levinas. She has also published with Routledge a Reader of articles by twenty-eight contemporary French women philosophers, and most recently a study of the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as understood by a dozen twentieth-century French philosophers.
Teaching
French Literature of 19th and more especially 20th centuries; Literary Theory; and Recent French Thought.
Graduate Teaching
Christina gives seminars in Literary Theory for the MSt; she also teaches 20C French Thought for the MSt. She is happy to consider applicants for doctoral supervision in a variety of aspects of her research areas, and especially Sartre, Derrida, and theories of subjectivity.
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Selected Publications
Stiegler and Technics, co-edited with Gerald Moore (Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
Mortal Subjects: Passions of the Soul in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought (Polity Press, 2011)
French Women Philosophers, A Contemporary Reader: Subjectivity, Identity, Alterity (Routledge, 2004)
Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics (Polity Press, 1998)
The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Sartre: the Necessity of Freedom, (Cambridge University Press, 1988)