Kelly Oliver

Kelly Oliver (born 1958) is an American philosopher whose work contributes to the fields of feminism, film theory, media studies, political philosophy, and ethics. She is W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Oliver received her PhD in Philosophy from Northwestern University in 1987, and taught in the Philosophy departments at the University of Texas at Austin and SUNY Stony Brook prior to coming to Vanderbilt in 2005. Her most recent theoretical projects include a book on the use of animal images and metaphors in the history of philosophy and another on images of pregnancy and the pregnant body in Hollywood films.
Works
Oliver is the author of dozens of scholarly articles, nine books, and six edited volumes. Her authored books include Animal Lessons: how they teach us to be human, Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media, The Colonization of...