Dr. Eleanor Kaufman

Biography

Eleanor Kaufman is a Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. Her primary research focuses on twentieth-century French philosophy, with secondary interests in Medieval philosophy, theology (both Christian and Islamic), psychoanalysis, and medical humanities. She is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Religion, the Center for the Study of Women, and the Center for Jewish Studies. In her role at UCLA, she currently serves as Vice Chair of the University of California Systemwide Committee on Planning and Budget and is Chair of its Task Force on Agriculture and Natural Resources. Kaufman has previously taught at Cornell University and the University of Virginia. She has authored several significant works, including 'Delirium Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski' (Johns Hopkins, 2001) and 'Deleuze, Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Her scholarly contributions include co-editing 'Deleuze Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, Culture' (University of Minnesota Press, 1998) and she is in the process of working on multiple book-length projects that delve deeply into French phenomenology and critical theory.

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