Kelly Oliver

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of over seventy-five articles and nineteen books, including Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media (2007), The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression (2004), Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir (2002), Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (2001), Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (1998), and Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture (1997). Her current book project is Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film and Popular Culture.