Faculty Directory - Bio
Claire Colebrook
Professor of English
151 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone:814-865-6413
cmc30@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday & Thursday 3-5
Claire Colebrook holds a first degree in philosophy from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Letters from Australian National University and a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. She was Professor of Modern Literary Theory at the University of Edinburgh from 2000-2008. She has published articles on contemporary European philosophy, feminist theory, literary theory, contemporary music, dance, visual culture and political theory. Her books include _new Literary Histories_ (Manchester UP 1997), _Ethics and Representation_ (Edinburgh UP 1999), Gilles Deleuze (Routledge 2002), Understanding Deleuze (Allen and Unwin 2003), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (Nebraska 2002), Irony: The New Critical Idiom (Routledge 2003), Gender (Palgrave 2004), Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum 2006) and Milton, Evil and Literary History (Continuum 2008). She is currently completing two book-length studies, one on vitalism and another on William Blake and aesthetics.
