Elizabeth Grosz

Elizabeth Anne Grosz (; born 1952) is an Australian philosopher, feminist theorist, and professor working in the U.S. She is Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor Emerita at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.

Early life and education Elizabeth A. Grosz was born in 1952 in Sydney, Australia.

She studied for a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree at the University of Sydney, where in 1980, she received her PhD from the Department of General Philosophy.

Career Grosz lectured at the Department of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1978 to 1991. She moved to Monash University in 1992

Since 2019 and Grosz is Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University.

Writing Grosz has written on 20th-century French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze, as well as on gender, sexuality, temporality, and Darwinian evolutionary theory.

Her works include: Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists (1989) Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (1990) Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994) Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (1995) Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space (2001) The Nick of Time: Politics, evolution, and the untimely (2004) Time Travels: Feminism, nature, power (2005) Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (2008) Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics and Art (2011) The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism (2017)