Mary C. Rawlinson

Mary C. Rawlinson is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University in New York.

Rawlinson’s publications include The Betrayal of Substance: death, literature, and sexual difference in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Columbia University Press, 2021), Just Life: bioethics and the future of sexual difference (Columbia University Press, 2016), Engaging the World: Thinking After Irigaray (SUNY, 2016), The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics (Routledge, 2016), Labor and Global Justice (Lexington, 2014), Thinking with Irigaray (SUNY, 2011), The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics (Springer, 2006), and Derrida and Feminism (Routledge, 1997), as well as articles on Hegel, Proust, literature and ethics, food justice, tourism, bioethics, and contemporary French philosophy. Her next book Liminal Ethics investigates the idea of justice in crime fiction.

Rawlinson was the founding editor of IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2006-2016) and Co-founder and Director of The Irigaray Circle (2007-2017). She is a winner of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Graduate Students. In 2018 she was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London.