Dr Laura Roberts
Faculty Post-Thesis Fellow, Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy
Book
Roberts, Laura Irigaray and politics: a critical introduction. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Book Chapters
Roberts, Laura (2016). Making mischief: thinking through women’s solidarity and sexuate difference with Luce Irigaray and Gayatri Spivak. In Rafael Winkler (Ed.), Identity and difference: contemporary debates on the self (pp. 201-231) London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40427-1_9
Roberts, Laura (2015). Cultivating difference with Luce Irigaray's 'Between east and west'. In Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder (Ed.), Building a new world: Luce Irigaray: teaching II (pp. 58-76) London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137453020_5
Journal Articles
Roberts, Laura (2019) Disrupting time: somatechnics and the opening of the interval. Australian Feminist Studies, 34 99: 60-72. doi:10.1080/08164649.2019.1605485
Roberts, Laura (2017) A revolution of love: thinking through a dialectic that is not "One". Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 32 1: 69-85. doi:10.1111/hypa.12306
Roberts, Laura (2012) Irigaray: towards a sexuate philosophy (review). L'Esprit Créateur, 52 3: 123-124. doi:10.1353/esp.2012.0029
Conference Papers
Roberts, Laura (2015). Representing a Radical Intersectional Feminine Subjectivity: Luce Irigaray and Céline Sciamma’s 'Girlhood'. In: ASCP 2015 Conference Booklet. Australian Society for Continental Philosophy 2015 Conference, University of New South Wales, (65-65). 2-4 December 2015.
Roberts, Laura (2015). The Philosophical Significance of African Women’s Writing. In: Cosmopolitanism/Women Writers/Biography Conference, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, (). 13-14 July 2015.
Roberts, Laura (2014). Irigaray and Beauvoir: Radicalising Sexual Difference. In: Australian Society for Continental Philosophy 2014 Conference, ACU, Fitzroy, (67-68). 4-6 December 2014.
Roberts, Laura (2014). Luce Irigaray and Gayatri Spivak: Toward a (non traditional) Ontology of Sexual Difference. In: Luce Irigaray Circle Conference, RMIT, Melbourne, (). 10-12 December 2014.
Roberts, Laura (2013). Luce Irigaray’s Psychoanalytic Contexts: Melanie Klein and Béla Grunberger. In: Australian Association of Philosophy Conference 2013, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, (). 7-12 July 2013.
Roberts, Laura (2012). Cultivating Sexuate Difference with Luce Irigaray’s 'Between East and West'. In: London Conference in Critical Thought, Birkbeck College, London, England, (). 29-30 June 2012.
Roberts, Laura (2010). Seeing the wood for the trees: Sexuate difference as an irreducible component of the universal. In: Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics & Ethics: Abstracs. Sexuate Subjects Conference, London, U.K., (23-23). 3 - 5 December 2010.
Roberts, Laura (2009). Intersections of difference in Luce Irigaray's later work. In: PhiloSophia Conference, New York, NY, U.S.A., (). 27-28 May 2009.
Roberts, Laura (2009). The task of thinking through a placental economy. In: Seminar of: Luce Irigaray, London, England, (). 15 - 20 June 2009.
Roberts, Laura (2008). Irigaray’s Bodies: Celebrating a culture of difference. In: Third annual conference of the Luce Irigaray Circle, Hempstead, New York, United States, (). 12-13 September 2008.
Thesis
Roberts, Laura Jane (2015). An alchemy of radical love: Luce Irigaray's ontology of sexuate difference PhD Thesis, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland. doi:10.14264/uql.2015.661