Kelly Oliver is Alton Jones Professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of over fifty articles and fifteen books, including The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression, Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition, Subjectivity without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers, Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture, Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy’s Relation to ‘the Feminine’, and Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Blind. She is also the editor of The Portable Kristeva.