Chloë Taylor

Chloë Taylor (born 1976) is a Canadian philosopher and scholar of women's and gender studies. She is a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta, where she has worked since 2009. Her areas of research include Michel Foucault, prison abolition, feminist philosophy, and critical animal studies.

Education and career Taylor studied for a BA in philosophy at the University of Victoria from 1995 to 1998, before studying for a BA at McGill University, majoring in the history of art and minoring in German studies from 1998 to 2000. She remained at McGill to read for an MA in art history, graduating in 2002 having written a thesis entitled The Aesthetics of Sadism and Masochism in Italian Renaissance Painting. From 2002 until 2006, she read for a PhD in philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her thesis was entitled The Culture of Confession.