Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond

Ladelle McWhorter holds the James Thomas Chair in Philosophy and is also a Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia.  She is the author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (Indiana, 1999); Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America:  A Genealogy (Indiana, 2009); and more than two dozen articles on Foucault, Bataille, Irigaray, and race theory.  Toronto University Press has just issued a revised and greatly expanded second edition of Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, an anthology she co-edited with Gail Stenstad.