Amy Stewart teaches Gender and Women's Studies at Kennesaw State University and is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is also a mom of two humans and two cats. Amy holds an MA in Gender/Cultural Studies from Simmons University, and her research brings together Lacanian and Kristevan psychoanalytic theory, trans and queer studies, and continental feminist philosophy.

At Simmons, Amy was appointed as the first Hazel Dick Leonard Research Fellow on Gender. She has organized regional academic conferences on feminism and philosophy, developed curriculum for gender studies programs and anti-racist nonprofits, indexed manuscripts in psychoanalytic studies and philosophy, and served on numerous committees to support LGBTQ student populations.

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