Dr Laura Roberts
Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy
Book
Roberts, Laura (2019). Irigaray and politics: a critical introduction. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Book Chapters
Roberts, Laura (2016). Making mischief: thinking through women’s solidarity and sexuate difference with Luce Irigaray and Gayatri Spivak. Identity and difference: contemporary debates on the self. (pp. 201-231) edited by Rafael Winkler. 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'. Building a new world: Luce Irigaray: teaching II. (pp. 58-76) edited by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137453020_5
Journal Articles
Roberts, Laura (2022). Sexuate difference, sovereignty and colonialism: reading Luce Irigaray with Irene Watson. Sophia, 61 (1), 151-168. doi: 10.1007/s11841-022-00924-1
Ramos, Fabiane and Roberts, Laura (2021). Wonder as feminist pedagogy: disrupting feminist complicity with coloniality. Feminist Review, 128 (1), 28-43. doi: 10.1177/01417789211013702
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). The Philosophical Significance of African Women’s Writing. Cosmopolitanism/Women Writers/Biography Conference, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 13-14 July 2015.
Roberts, Laura (2015). Representing a Radical Intersectional Feminine Subjectivity: Luce Irigaray and Céline Sciamma’s 'Girlhood'. Australian Society for Continental Philosophy 2015 Conference, University of New South Wales, 2-4 December 2015.
Roberts, Laura (2014). Luce Irigaray and Gayatri Spivak: Toward a (non traditional) Ontology of Sexual Difference. Luce Irigaray Circle Conference, RMIT, Melbourne, 10-12 December 2014.
Roberts, Laura (2014). Irigaray and Beauvoir: Radicalising Sexual Difference. Australian Society for Continental Philosophy 2014 Conference, ACU, Fitzroy, 4-6 December 2014.
Roberts, Laura (2013). Luce Irigaray’s Psychoanalytic Contexts: Melanie Klein and Béla Grunberger. 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'. 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. Sexuate Subjects Conference, London, U.K., 3 - 5 December 2010.
Roberts, Laura (2009). Intersections of difference in Luce Irigaray's later work. PhiloSophia Conference, New York, NY, U.S.A., 27-28 May 2009.
Roberts, Laura (2009). The task of thinking through a placental economy. Seminar of: Luce Irigaray, London, England, 15 - 20 June 2009.
Roberts, Laura (2008). Irigaray’s Bodies: Celebrating a culture of difference. 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