Beata Stawarska
Research
Beata Stawarska is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She has published widely on contemporary European Philosophy (especially phenomenology and post-structuralism), feminist philosophy (especially Beauvoir, Butler, Kristeva, and Irigaray), African and Africana philosophy (especially Fanon and Senghor), philosophy of psychology, dialogical philosophy, and philosophy of language (broadly construed). Her first book, Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology, appeared with Ohio University Press in 2009. Her other books: Saussure’s Philosophy of Language as Phenomenology: Undoing the Doctrine of the Course in General Linguistics and Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology were published by Oxford University Press (2014) and Palgrave McMillan (2020). Stawarska is a recipient of the Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (2009-11), the Institute of Advanced Studies at Nantes, France, Fellowship (2017-18), and the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies, South Africa Fellowship (2020). She is currently at work on a research project dealing with L. S. Senghor’s force ontology based on the Senegalese author’s untranslated theoretical writings; this project was funded by the Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) Moll Faculty Research Fellowship in Literary Studies (2024-25). Stawarska also works on a project examining the intertextual elisions and overlaps between Simone de Beauvoir’s and Frantz Fanon’s sociogenic studies of liberation.
Publications
BOOKS
- Interview in New Books in Philosophy
Selected Articles and book chapters
Fanon and the Realization of Femininity. Special Edition on Fanon, Tumultes, 2026.
Ontology in Black? Ontological Resistance in Fanon and Senghor. Special Edition on ‘Race, Coloniality, and Diaspora’. Ed. H. Ngo and B. Kent. Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology, 2026.
Revolutions in Early Kristeva. Revolt, Politics, Psychoanalysis: New Directions in Kristeva Studies. Ed. E. Angelova and E. Paquette. SUNY Press, 2026.
Vulnerability and Violence: Transgressing the Gender Binary. In Purple Brains, Ed. A. Dufourq and A. Halsema. Radboud UP, Spring 2024, pp. 42-51.
Black Speaking Subjects. Frantz Fanon’s Immanent Critique of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language, Hel (Histoire, Epistémologie, Langage/History, Epistemology, Language) (co-authored with A. Ring), 2023, pp. 65-86.
Struggle and Violence. Entering the Dialectic with Frantz Fanon and Simone de Beauvoir. Violence, Slavery, and Freedom: Between Hegel and Fanon. Ed. Ph. Van Haute and U. Kistner, Wits UP (8/2020).
Subject and Structure in Feminist Phenomenology: Re-reading Beauvoir with Butler. Emerging Trends in Feminist Phenomenology. Ed. Sarah Cohen Shabot and Christy Landry. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Unhappy Speech, and Hearing Well. Contributions of Feminist Speech Act Theory to Feminist Phenomenology. Future Directions of Feminist Phenomenology, Ed. Helen Fielding and Dorothea Olkowski. Indiana UP (October 2017).
Linguistic Encounters: The Performativity of Active Listening. Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters. Ed. Luna Dolezal and Danielle Petherbridge, SUNY Press 2017, pp. 185-208.
Language as Poeisis. Linguistic Productivity and Forms of Resistance in Kristeva and Saussure. New Forms of Revolt: Kristeva's Intimate Politics. Ed. Rebecca Tuvel, and Sarah Hansen. SUNY Press 2017a, pp. 129-153.
Ghostwriting: the Inception and the Reception of the Course in General Linguistics as Saussure’s work. Semiotica. Special Issue: 100 Years of the Course in General Linguistics; Guest-edited by Russell Daylight (2017). doi: 10.1515/sem-2016-0042
Primacy of I–you connectedness revisited: some implications for AI and robotics. AI & Society (2017). doi:10.1007/s00146-017-0695-6
Derrida and Saussure on Entrainment and Contamination. Shifting the Paradigm from the Course to the Nachlass. Continental Philosophy Review. 48.3 (Sep 2015): 297-312.
Strange Life of a Sentence: Saussurean Doctrine and its Discontents. Philosophy Today. Vol. 59:2, 2015.
Uncanny Errors, Productive Contresens. Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenological Appropriation of Ferdinand de Saussure’s General Linguistics. CHIASMI International, 15, 151-165, March 2013.
Sartre and Husserl’s Ideen: Phenomenology and Imagination. Sartre – Key Concepts. Ed. Jack Reynolds and Steve Churchill. Acumen Press, 12-31, 2013.
Mutual Gaze and Intersubjectivity. Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Ed. Daniel Schmicking and Shaun Gallagher. Springer, 2010, pp. 269-282.
Merleau-Ponty and Sartre in Response to Cognitive Studies of Intersubjectivity. Philosophy Compass, 4: 2, March 2009, 312-328.
Merleau-Ponty and Psychoanalysis. Merleau-Ponty – Key Concepts. Ed. Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds. Acumen Press, June 30, 2008, 57-69.
You and I, Here and Now. Spatial and Social Situatedness in Deixis. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 16, no. 4, 2008, pp. 399-418
Seeing Faces. Sartre and Imitation Studies. Sartre Studies International, vol. 13, no. 2, 2007, pp. 27-46.
Persons, Pronouns, and Perspectives. Linguistic and Developmental Contributions to Dialogical Phenomenology. Folk Psychology Reassessed. Ed. Matthew Ratcliffe and Jonathan Hutto. Springer, 2007, pp. 79-99.
Anonymity and Sociality. The Convergence of Psychological and Philosophical Currents in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontological Theory of Intersubjectivity. Merleau-Ponty. Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 vol. set. Ed. Ted Toadvine. Routledge, 2006.
Mutual Gaze and Social Cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 5.2, pp. 17-30, 2006.
From the Body Proper to Flesh: Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity. Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty. (Feminists Read the Canon Series, ed. Nancy Tuana). Ed. Dorothea Olkowski and Gail Weiss. Penn State University Press, 2006, pp. 91-106.
Defining Imagination. Sartre between Janet and Husserl. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 4.2, 2005, pp. 133-153.
The Body, the Mirror and the Other in Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. Ipseity and Alterity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity. Editors: Shaun Gallagher and Stephen Watson. Rouen: Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2004, pp. 175-186.
Merleau-Ponty in Dialogue with the Cognitive Sciences in Light of Recent Imitation Research. Philosophy Today, 2003, pp. 89-99.
Memory and Subjectivity: Sartre in Dialogue with Husserl. Sartre Studies International, Vol. 8, N° 2, 94-111, 2002.
Reversibility and Intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 33, N° 2, 155-166, 2002.
Pictorial Representation or Subjective Scenario? Sartre on Imagination. Sartre Studies International, Vol. 7, N° 2, 2001, pp. 87-111.
Teaching
My teaching interests lie in the area of contemporary European Philosophy (phenomenology, post-structuralism, and deconstruction), feminist philosophy (feminist phenomenology, Black feminism, including African), African and Africana philosophy, philosophy of language (broadly construed), and early modern philosophy.
I have taught author courses on Buber, Derrida, Descartes and W. A. Amo, Freud, Fanon, Kristeva, Irigaray, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre.