I'm Director and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where I teach courses in feminist philosophy, global feminist ethics, fashion theory, and philosophy of the body. I received a PhD in philosophy, with a graduate emphasis in women's studies, from Temple University. My research brings together Continental philosophy and feminist cultural studies, with particular focus on styles of embodiment, rhetorics of feminine authenticity, and cultural imperatives of self-transformation.

"Pleasure, Pain, and the Feminist Politics of Rough Sex." Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century. Ed. Shira Tarrant. New York: Routlege, 2015.

Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style. Eds. Shira Tarrant and Marjorie Jolles. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012.

"Stylish Contradiction: Mix-and-Match as the Fashion of Feminist Ambivalence." Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style. Eds. Shira Tarrant and Marjorie Jolles. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012.

"Knowing For Sure: Epistemologies of the Autonomous Self in O, The Oprah Magazine." The Oprah Phenomenon. Eds. Elwood Watson and Jennifer Harris. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007.

I've also published articles in the journals Hypatia, Feminist Formations, Feminist Teacher, and Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture.

National Women's Studies Association
American Association of University Professors