Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
Associate Professor in Philosophy
+61 7 336 52616
Room E310, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Researcher biography
Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker's research interests span the fields of European philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, and feminist philosophy. Her teaching interests in philosophy include intersections with politics, film, and literature. Her current research engages with the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Theodore W. Adorno, Luce Irigraray, Michèle Le Doeuff, and others. A new project focuses on questions of philosophy and laughter.
Associate Professor Boulous Walker is also involved in the European Philosophy Research Group (EPRG), affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH).
Publications
Books
Walker, Michelle Boulous (2017). Slow philosophy: reading against the institution. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781474279949
Walker, Michelle Boulous and Little, Adriane (2005). Adriane Little: Call home mothers dead. Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.: Big Orbit Gallery.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (1998). Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading silence. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Book Chapters
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2020). Affect and porosity: ethics and literature between Teresa Brennan and Hélène Cixous. Ethics and literary practice. (pp. 171-187) edited by Adam Zachary Newton. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. doi: 10.3390/books978-3-03928-505-1
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2019). Slow movement. Pluriverse: a post-development dictionary. (pp. 305-308) edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta. New Delhi, India: Tulika Books.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2018). 'Situating the essay: between philosophy and literature?'. The Palgrave handbook of philosophy and literature. (pp. 61-79) edited by Barry Stocker and Michael Mack. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54794-1_3
Walker, Michelle Boulous (2011). Becoming slow: Philosophy, reading and the essay. The Antipodean philosopher: public lectures on philosophy in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 268-278) edited by Graham Oppy and N. N. Trakakis. Lanham, MD, U.S.A.: Lexington Books.
Walker, M. A. (2000). Bringing Le Doeuff home. Michele Le Doeuff: Operative Philosophy and Imaginary Practice. (pp. 163-186) edited by Max Deutscher. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (1998). Wonder: Coupling Art with Sexual Difference. Veil : installations, books and video walks : Judith Wright. (pp. 44-47) edited by Judith Wright. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute of Modern Art.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (1997). Reflections on the Pre-Reflected: The Blue Room of Humanity. The Blue Room of Humanity. (pp. 28-36) edited by Franz Ehmann. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute of Modern Art.
Walker, Michelle (1994). Performing Desire: Duras in Silence. Performing Sexualities. (pp. 11-22) edited by Michelle Boulous Walker. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute of Modern Art.
Walker, Michelle (1994). Introduction. Performing Sexualities. (pp. iv-v) edited by Michelle Boulous Walker. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute of Modern Art.
Walker, Michelle (1993). The Aesthetics of Detail. Aesthetics after Historicism. (pp. 79-91) edited by Wayne Hudson. Fortitude Valley, Qld Australia: Institute of Modern Art.
Walker, Michelle (1993). Reason, identity and the body: reading Adorno with Irigaray. Reason and its other : rationalty in modern German philosophy and culture. (pp. 199-216) edited by Dieter Freundlieb and Wayne Hudson. Providence, RI United States: Berg.
Journal Articles
Walker, Michelle Boulous (2022). Writing: The question as revolt in Kristeva and Boochani. Humanities, 11 (4) 78, 1-14. doi: 10.3390/h11040078
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2022). Nature, obligation, and transcendence: reading Luce Irigaray with Mary Graham. Sophia, 61 (1), 187-201. doi: 10.1007/s11841-022-00907-2
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2019). Affect and porosity: Ethics and literature between Teresa Brennan and Helene Cixous. Humanities, 8 (4) doi:10.3390/h8040160, 160. doi: 10.3390/h8040160
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2019). Walter Benjamin: the art of critical thought. Schwarz-auf-Weiss, 367, 1-13.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2019). The fragility of collegiality: 'What remains of me at the university, within the university?'. Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy, 30, 18-28.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2018). 1968 and The Paradox of Freedom. Counterculture Studies, 64-73. doi: 10.14453/ccs.v1.i1.6
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2017). Fast Politics - Slow Philosophy. The Philosophers' Magazine (79), 38-43. doi: 10.5840/tpm201779105
Walker, Michelle Boulous (2017). Fast Politics - Slow Philosophy Michelle Boulous Walker argues that unhurried thinking might be the antidote we need. The Philosophers' Magazine (79), 38-43.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2016). Philosophy and judgement: listening to Max Deutscher. Parrhesia, 26, 40-51.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2015). Desire, vulnerability, approach: the work of Judith Wright. Eyeline, 84, 62-65.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2014). Slow reading. Island, 137, 40-41.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2013). Imagining happiness: literature and the essay. Culture, Theory and Critique, 54 (2), 194-208. doi: 10.1080/14735784.2013.782681
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2010). Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory. By Nancy J. Hirschmann. Hypatia, 25 (2), 472-476. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01072a.x
Walker, Michelle Boulous (2010). Love, ethics, and authenticity: Beauvoir's lesson in what it means to read. Hypatia, 25 (2), 334-356. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01104.x
Walker, Michelle Boulous and Trakakis, Nick (2010). We're not the only ones. Slow, 2 (4), 118-119.
Walker, Michelle Boulous (2009). Responsibility, giving and maternal work. Australian Feminist Studies, 24 (61), 373-375. doi: 10.1080/08164640903108569
Walker, Michelle Boulous (2009). Writing couples: reading Deutscher on Sartre and Beauvoir. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics , IV (I), 45-52.
Walker, Michelle Boulous (2009). Responsibility, giving and maternal work. Australian Feminist Studies, 24 (61), 373-375. doi: 10.1080/08164640903108569
Walker, Michelle Boulous (2009). The gift of the other: Levinas and the politics of reproduction. Australian Feminist Studies, 24 (61), 373-375. doi: 10.1080/08164640903108569
Walker, M. A. (2006). An ethics of reading - Adorno, Levinas, and Irigaray. Philosophy Today, 50 (2), 223-238. doi: 10.5840/philtoday200650254
Walker, M. B. (2004). Review of 'Environmental culture: The ecological crisis of reason'. Australian Feminist Studies, 19 (44), 255-257.
Walker, M. A. (2003). Review of Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the persistence of the subject by Caroline Williams. Political Studies Review, 1 (3), 370-371.
Walker, M. B. (2003). Review Article: Ajzenstat, O., 'Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism'. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 77 (1), 133-137. doi: 10.5840/acpq20037717
Walker M.B. (2002). Eating ethically: Emmanuel Levinas and Simone Weil. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 76 (2), 295-320. doi: 10.5840/acpq200276245
Walker, M. B. (2002). Eating ethically: Emmanuel Levinas and Simone Weil (Exploring the ethical realms of anorexia and so-called states of grace). American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 76 (2), 295-320.
Walker, M. B. (1998). Feminist amnesia: the wake of women's liberation. Australian Feminist Studies, 13 (28), 366-367.
Walker, M. B. (1998). Imaginary bodies: Ethics, power and corporeality. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 76 (2), 335-337.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (1998). In Memory of Lyotard: the differend. Virtuosity
Walker, M. B. (1997). A short story about reason - The strange case of Habermas and Poe. Philosophy Today, 41 (3), 432-445. doi: 10.5840/philtoday199741344
WALKER, MB (1995). HISTORY AFTER LACAN - BRENNAN,T. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73 (4), 632-635.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (1995). Brennan, T., History After Lacan. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73 (4), 632-635. doi: 10.1080/00048409512346991
Walker, Michelle (1993). Silence and reason: woman's voice in philosophy. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 71 (4), 400-424. doi: 10.1080/00048409312345412
Walker, Michelle (1986). Feminism and the humanities: Enrichment, expansion or challenge? Speaking from where, to whom?. Australian Feminist Studies, 1 (3), 106-109. doi: 10.1080/08164649.1986.9961521
Walker, Michelle (1986). Reproduction: Feminist footnote to Marxist text?. Arena: a Marxist Journal of Criticism and Discussion, 1 (77), 155-166.
Generic Document
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2017). 'More Haste, Less speed: our pressured universities need "slow philosophy"'. The World Universities Insights.
Creative Work
Boulous Walker, Michelle (1996). Finding fault. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute of Modern Art.
Thesis
Walker, Michelle Boulous (1996). Philosophy and silence : reading the maternal body. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/312117
Newspaper Articles
Michelle Boulous Walker (2021, 06 20). The Laughter of Hannah Arendt
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2020, 06 09). "Why slow philosophy is the antidote to fast politics" ABC religion and ethics 1-5.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2019, 12 02). Can philosophy, and philosophers survive in the modern university? ABC religion and ethics 1-7.
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2017, 10 11). Could 'Slow Philosophy' Offer an Antidote to Modern Academia? RHYSTRANTER.COM: Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts
Boulous Walker, Michelle (2017, 07 10). Philosophy at the Speed of Art FORUM for European Philosophy (FEP)