Ellie Anderson

Assistant Professor of Philosophy; On leave for the 2023-2024 academic year
With Pomona Since: 2020
  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Ellie Anderson specializes in continental European philosophy, with emphasis on twentieth-century French philosophy and feminist theory. Her research focuses on relational theories of selfhood, the philosophy of love, and sexual ethics.

    Research Interests

    • Selfhood and Personal Identity
    • Phenomenology 
    • Philosophy of Love
    • Ethics

    Areas of Expertise

    • Phenomenology
    • Existentialism
    • Poststructuralism
    • Feminist Theory
    • Philosophy of Race
  • Work

    Work

     podcast

    鈥淭he Ethical Significance of Being an Erotic Object,鈥 co-written with Caleb Ward. The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics, ed. David Boonin (forthcoming).

    鈥淓rotic Love and Marriage in Beauvoir鈥檚 The Second Sex,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Le Deuxi猫me Sexe Seventy Years On, ed. Pauline Henry-Tierney and Julia Bullock (forthcoming).

    鈥淨uestions to Jacques Derrida鈥 and 鈥淥celle comme pas un,鈥 by Jacques Derrida, co-translated with Philippe Lynes, in Thinking What Comes, ed. Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi (forthcoming).

    "Phenomenology and the Ethics of Love." Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, forthcoming 2021.

    "Sartre's Affective Turn: Shame as Recognition in 'The Look." Philosophy Today, 65:3, Summer 2021. 

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, co-written with Cynthia Willett and Diana Tietjen Meyers. First published July 2015; updated February 2020.

    Unmute podcast, episode 51, interviewed by host Myisha Cherry:

    American Philosophical Association (APA) Women in Philosophy blog, April 23. 

    "From Existential Alterity to Ethical Reciprocity: Beauvoir's Alternative to Levinas." Continental Philosophy Review, 52:2, 2019, 171-189.

    Abraham鈥檚 Melancholy,鈥 by Jacques Derrida, co-translated with Philippe Lynes, Oxford Literary Review, 39:2, 153-188.

    "Autoeroticism: Rethinking Self-Love with Derrida and Irigaray.鈥 PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, 12:1, Spring/Summer 2017, 53-70. 

    鈥淭he Other (Woman): Limits of Knowledge in Beauvoir鈥檚 Ethics of Reciprocity,鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 28:3, 380-388, 2014.
     

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D., Philosophy, Emory University

    Master of Arts, Philosophy, Emory University

    Bachelor of Arts, optima, Philosophy, Trinity College

  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    • Arts & Sciences Fellowship, Laney Graduate School, Emory University, 2011-2016
    • Piedmont TATTO Fellowship in Sustainability, Teaching, and Curriculum, Emory University, 2015
    • Phi Beta Kappa, 2010
    • President's Fellow of Philosophy, Trinity College, 2010