Amy Ray Stewart

Amy Stewart is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she has taught Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for four years. She specializes in continental feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, LGBTQ studies, and philosophies of gender, race, and sexuality.

Her dissertation project engages with the psychoanalytic works of Julia Kristeva in order to demonstrate how transgender and queer subjectivities are shaped and mobilized by a psychic life of revolt. Amy regularly teaches courses on gender and sexuality studies and has twice offered a special topics course on transgender histories, identities, and politics; she has also taught courses on queer studies, critical theory, and existential philosophy. As an active interdisciplinary scholar, Amy has organized academic conferences on feminism and philosophy, developed curriculum for gender studies programs and anti-racist civic engagement projects, indexed manuscripts on psychoanalysis and literature, and served on numerous committees to improve the campus climate for LGBTQ student populations. At Simmons College, where she completed her M.A. in Gender/Cultural Studies, she was appointed as their first Hazel Dick Leonard Research Fellow on Gender.

Amy’s research has been presented at over 30 national and international conferences and her writings appear in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, as well as in the volume New Forms of Revolt: Essays on Kristeva’s Intimate Politics.