Mary Beth Mader
Professor
Email: mmader@memphis.edu
Phone: 901.678.2535
Office: 303 Clement Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 10am - 1pm and by appointment (Spring 2026)
About Dr. Mader
Professor Mader (PhD, University of Texas) joined the department in 2000. She also holds a BA from Smith College. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century continental philosophy, and feminist theory.
Dr. Mary Beth Mader visited Bergische Universit盲t Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany, May 10-20, 2015 on an Erasmus Mundus Europhilosophie Master's Visiting Scholar Fellowship. She was , Czech Republic, as a part of the Erasmus Mundus-Europhilosophie Master's Program. With Prof. Anne Gl茅onec,鈥� she co-taught an intensive graduate course on Foucault's Biopolitics from November 1-10, 2014.
Dr. Mader is also Co-Translator of the Deleuze Lectures Translation Project, funded
by National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant.
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Selected Publications
鈥淥bservations on Observation: Deleuze on Perspective,鈥� In The Deleuzian Mind, Eds. Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey Bell. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2025, 342-354.
鈥淧hilosophical and Scientific Intensity in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze.鈥� Special issue of Deleuze Studies, 鈥楾he Virtual, the Actual, the Intensive.鈥� Eds. Sean Bowden and Dale Clisby. Deleuze Studies, 11.2 (2017): 259-277.
鈥淭he Second Sexuality: Training in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault.鈥� A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Eds. Laura Hengehold and Nancy Bauer. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, 111-121.
鈥淭he Genealogy of Abstractive Practices,鈥� The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 55, 2017, pp. 86-97. 2016 Spindel Conference Supplement: 鈥淐ritical Histories of the Present.鈥� Dir. Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson.
"Whence Intensity?: Deleuze and the Revival of a Concept." In Deleuze and Metaphysics. Eds. Alain Beaulieu, Ed Kazarian, Julia Sushytska. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
(2014).PREPRINT AVAILABLE HERE.
"Being Genealogical: Tragic Necessity in Sophocles' Antigone," In The Returns of Antigone, Eds. Tina Chanter and Sean Kirkland, Albany: State University of New York Press (2014).
"Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought." In Philosophy after Irigaray: Selected Papers from the Proceedings of the Luce Irigaray Circle from 2nd Annual Meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle, SUNY- Stony Brook, September 8, 2008. (Albany: State University of New York, 2016) Eds. Mary Rawlinson, Sara McNamara.
"Knowledge," in The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon. Eds., Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 226-235.
(SUNY Press, 2011) (Gender Theory Series, ed. Tina Chanter).
"Modern Living and Vital Race: Foucault and the Science of Life," Foucault Studies12 (2011): 97-112.
"Foucault's 'Metabody'," (special issue on approaches to bioethics that draw on Continental philosophy, ed. Catherine Mills) (2010): 187-203.
"Luce Irigaray," in History of Continental Philosophy, vol. 6, ed. Alan Schrift (Durham: Acumen Press, 2010): 337-57.
Editor, Southern Journal of Philosophy 48, Spindel Supplement (2010), "The Sexes of Evolution: Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy and Evolutionary Theory."
"Foucault and Social Measure," Journal of French Philosophy, 17.1 (2007): 1-25.
"Antigone鈥檚 Line," Bulletin de la Soci茅t茅 Am茅ricaine de Philosophie de Langue Fran莽aise (Journal of French Philosophy), 15.1 (2005): 18-40; reprinted in Feminist Interpretations of Antigone, ed. Fanny S枚derback (SUNY Press, forthcoming).
Selected Presentations
鈥淭emporal Perspective,鈥� Conference: Deleuze et la ph茅nom茅nologie, Bergische Universit盲t, Wuppertal, Germany, September 9-11, 2025.
"Quelle vie?: La pens茅e foucaldienne de la biologie," S茅minaire de Master 2015-2016. Identit茅 et subjectivit茅. Universit茅 de Caen Basse-Normandie. January 20, 2016.
"Being Genealogical: Contemporary Philosophical Reflection on Kinship," The 57th Annual Hurst Lecture, Department of Philosophy, American University, Washington, DC. March 23, 2016 and Applied Philosophy Lyceum, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. April 22, 2016.
"The Genealogy of Abstractive Practices," Spindel Conference, University of 糖心Vlog传媒, "Temporalities of Philosophical Inquiry: Critical Histories of the Present." September 15-17, 2016.
"Control Mechanisms: Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Norbert Weiner," Deleuze Circle, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, October 2016.
Invited Speaker and Workshop Director, Deleuze Studies in India Collective Conference, Topic: Aesthetics and the Political in Contemporary India: Deleuzian Explorations. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. February 13-19, 2017.
Podcasts
Listen to a podcast of Professor Mader's lecture "," at Kingston University (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy).