Core Faculty

Jennifer Purvis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Women's Studies

Jennifer Purvis has been a core faculty member in the Women's Studies Department since the fall of 2002. She graduated with a Ph.D. from Purdue University's Joint Doctoral Program in English and Philosophy and a Graduate Minor in Women's Studies (August 2002). Her doctoral dissertation, Engagement and Intervention: Feminism's Exchange with Nineteenth Century Master Thinkers, investigates the relationship of French and psychoanalytic feminist theory-especially the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva-to the philosophies of Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Dr. Purvis specializes in Feminist Theory and Philosophy, with an emphasis on Gender and Queer Theory, 19th Century to Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theories of the Body, Third Wave/Intergenerational Feminisms, and feminist approaches to Antigone. She is currently working on the topic of queer feminist futurity and other modalities of temporality, corporeality, and revolt across feminist "generations."

jpurvis@ua.edu | Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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