Elizabeth A. Wilson

Elizabeth A. Wilson is a Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University. She is a scholar of feminist science studies, and her work brings together psychoanalytic theory, affect theory, feminist and queer theory, and neurobiology. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition, Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (2004), Affect and Artificial Intelligence (2010), and Gut Feminism (2015). She graduated from the University of Sydney with a Ph.D. in psychology.

She has held positions at the University of Western Sydney, the Australian National University, and the University of Sydney. In Affect and Artificial Intelligence, she provides perspectives on artificial intelligence research, the relationship of humans and technology, and the psychosocial contexts of computers. Her most recent book, Gut Feminism, focuses on depression and explores how antidepressant pharmaceutical data can be useful to feminists.

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