Gender and Women's Studies

Samantha Frost

Samantha Frost is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies. Her research interests are body politics, political theory, feminist theory, and ethics and politics.

Education

1998        Ph.D., Rutgers, Political Science

1990        B.A., Wellesley College, Magna cum laude

Academic Employment

2001 –    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies

2001 – 2004    Institute of Communications  Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  Research Assistant Professor in Communications

2000 – 2001    Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Visiting Assistant Professor

1998 – 2000    Women’s Studies Department, University of California–Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, Visiting Assistant Professor

1997 – 1998    Department of Political Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Instructor

1996     Douglass College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Instructor

Selected Publications

“Hobbes and the Matter of Self-Consciousness” Political Theory Vol.33, No.4 (August 2005): 495-517

“Just Lie: Lessons from Hobbes on the Cultivation of Peace” Theory & Event Vol.7, No. 4 (Summer 2004)

“Hobbes out of bounds” Political Theory Vol. 32, No.2 (April 2004): 257-273

Bibliography on and selected reviews of publications in Hobbes scholarship in the US for the year 2002 to appear as part of the “Bibliographie critique internationale des études hobbesienne pour l’année 2002" in Archives de Philosophie: Bullétin Hobbes Vol. XVI (2004) by invitation.

“Faking It: Hobbes’s Thinking-Bodies and the Ethics of Dissimulation” Political Theory vol.29, no.1 (February 2001): 30-57.

“Reading the Body: Hobbes, Body Politics, and the Vocation of Political Theory” in Vocations of

Political Theory, eds. Jason A. Frank and John Tambornino (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).

Works in Progress

Lessons from a materialist thinker: Hobbesian reflections on ethics and politics (a book length manuscript).

Materialism and Subjectivity: Toward a Political Theory of Embodied Agents and Thinking Matter, Co-edited with Diana Coole.

“Trust and Terror,” an article to be included in the edited volume Materialism and Subjectivity.

 

Courses Taught

Senior Research Seminar; Representing Sex, Power, and Politics; Introduction to Feminist Theory ; Gender and Politics; French Feminist Theory; The Feminist Sexuality Debates; Feminist Epistemologies: Knowledge, Power, and Politics; Feminist Political Theory and the Social Contract Tradition; Body Politics/Feminist Politics; Nature of Politics.

Graduate Courses

History and Theory of the Freedom of Expression; The Ethos of Political Engagement; Feminist Theory and Interpretation in the Humanities.