Iris van der Tuin
New Feminist Materialism
Dr. Iris van der Tuin is assistant professor at Gender Studies, Department of Media and Culture Studies and the Research Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht University. She has recently been awarded a VENI grant by the
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the project 'The Material Turn in the Humanities'. Van der Tuin is co-president of ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and
Documentation.
Teaching:
I lecture on feminist theory and methodology, feminist classics, and philosophy of science. In 2010-11 I will be involved in coordinating the following courses: Gender, etniciteit en cultuurkritiek (200800135 BA); Advanced Introduction to Gender Research (200900231 RMA/ PhD); Research Design Seminar (200800350 RMA); Historiography of Feminist Ideas (200300463 BA); Fundamentals of the Humanities (200500147 RMA); Seminar Contemporary Cultural Theory (200900244).
The textbook Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, which I edited together with Prof. Rosemarie Buikema, was published in May 2009 with Routledge. The book can be ordered with a 20% discount if you use this form.
Research Projects:
THIRD-WAVE FEMINISM
A first expected outcome of my dissertation project ‘Third Wave Materialism: New Feminist Epistemologies and the Generation of European Women’s Studies’ is a monograph entitled ‘Third-Wave Feminist Epistemology’ in which I explicate my take on feminist generationality and its epistemological consequences. I will work on the ways in which the third wave of feminism implies an epistemic shift, and how to understand it. The core of the shift entails a move away from a second-wave feminist generationality structured by negativity according to which daughters position themselves as dualistically opposed to their mothers. The generationality of the third wave is structured by affirmation, that is, it is cartographical instead of classificatory. This implies that the third feminist wave holds strong ties with the second wave, and that the contemporary wave of feminism cannot be understood (as) cut off from the feminism of the 1960s.
A first expected outcome of my dissertation project ‘Third Wave Materialism: New Feminist Epistemologies and the Generation of European Women’s Studies’ is a monograph entitled ‘Third-Wave Feminist Epistemology’ in which I explicate my take on feminist generationality and its epistemological consequences. I will work on the ways in which the third wave of feminism implies an epistemic shift, and how to understand it. The core of the shift entails a move away from a second-wave feminist generationality structured by negativity according to which daughters position themselves as dualistically opposed to their mothers. The generationality of the third wave is structured by affirmation, that is, it is cartographical instead of classificatory. This implies that the third feminist wave holds strong ties with the second wave, and that the contemporary wave of feminism cannot be understood (as) cut off from the feminism of the 1960s.
For more information:
Iris van der Tuin (2009). ‘‘Jumping Generations:’ On Second- and Third-Wave Feminist Epistemology.’ Australian Feminist Studies 24.59: 17-31.
Iris van der Tuin (2010). ‘Van verstikkend naar visionair: Een feministisch epistemologische verkenning van de effecten van het golvenmodel in genderonderzoek.’ Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 13.2: 72-85.
NEW FEMINIST MATERIALISM
A second outcome of my dissertation entails a work on new feminist materialism. In my dissertation I focused exclusively on new materialist epistemologies such as they are shaping up in feminist science studies, feminist postcolonial studies, and feminist philosophy. I tried to build bridges with Deleuzean studies and Foucauldian approaches as well. Now I aim at furthering the construction of new materialist epistemologies both in feminist theory and in cultural theory in general.
For more information:
Iris van der Tuin (2008). ‘Deflationary Logic: Response to Sara Ahmed’s ‘Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the ‘New Materialism.’’ European Journal of Women’s Studies 15.4: 411-6.
Iris van der Tuin (2010). ‘Van verstikkend naar visionair: Een feministisch epistemologische verkenning van de effecten van het golvenmodel in genderonderzoek.’ Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 13.2: 72-85.
NEW FEMINIST MATERIALISM
A second outcome of my dissertation entails a work on new feminist materialism. In my dissertation I focused exclusively on new materialist epistemologies such as they are shaping up in feminist science studies, feminist postcolonial studies, and feminist philosophy. I tried to build bridges with Deleuzean studies and Foucauldian approaches as well. Now I aim at furthering the construction of new materialist epistemologies both in feminist theory and in cultural theory in general.
For more information:
Iris van der Tuin (2008). ‘Deflationary Logic: Response to Sara Ahmed’s ‘Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the ‘New Materialism.’’ European Journal of Women’s Studies 15.4: 411-6.
Iris van der Tuin (published on-line April 20, 2010). ‘‘A Different Starting Point, A Different Metaphysics’: Reading Bergson and Barad Diffractively.’ Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.
Iris van der Tuin and Rick Dolphijn
(forthcoming). ‘Sexual Differing:
Re-Reading Beauvoir, or Towards a New Materialist Theory of Sexual
Difference.’ Journal of
Gender Studies.
Iris van der Tuin (forthcoming). ‘Seksuele en generationele differentie in de 21ste eeuw: Nieuw feministisch materialisme als non-dualistische epistemologie.’ Tijdschrift
voor Genderstudies 13.3. Themanummer 'Feministische epistemologie en methodologie in de 21ste eeuw' (red. Jantine Oldersma, Veronica Vasterling en Iris van der Tuin).
TOWARDS A DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
with dr. Rick Dolphijn
The project ‘Towards a different philosophy of science’ aims at rewriting the philosophy of science from the perspective of the humanities. In other words, we aim at providing a critical perspective on what has been produced that is Philosophy of Science on the basis of a situated take on its central and marginal problems and thinkers. What can the philosophy of science do for the humanities, and what can the humanities bring to the philosophy of science? How would a philosophy of the humanities look? The project’s components include a co-authored research-driven teaching manual and several co-authored scholarly articles, developing and testing alternative pedagogies, and a weekly seminar on CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL THEORY.
with dr. Rick Dolphijn
The project ‘Towards a different philosophy of science’ aims at rewriting the philosophy of science from the perspective of the humanities. In other words, we aim at providing a critical perspective on what has been produced that is Philosophy of Science on the basis of a situated take on its central and marginal problems and thinkers. What can the philosophy of science do for the humanities, and what can the humanities bring to the philosophy of science? How would a philosophy of the humanities look? The project’s components include a co-authored research-driven teaching manual and several co-authored scholarly articles, developing and testing alternative pedagogies, and a weekly seminar on CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL THEORY.
For more information:
Iris van der Tuin and Rick Dolphijn (2010). ‘The Transversality of New Materialism.’ Women: A Cultural Review 21.2: 167-85.
E-mail: I.vanderTuin@uu.nl
