Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of over 100 articles and ten books. Her most recent books include: Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film; Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us To Be Human; Weapon as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media; The Colonization of Psychic Space: Toward a Psychoanalytic Social Theory; Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir; and Witnessing: Beyond Recognition.  She has also edited several books, including The Portable Kristeva.

Professor Kelly Oliver will be speaking in two classes...

•  "From Shameful to Sexy: Images of Pregnancy" in GWS 200 Women and Western Culture (Feb 20, 2012 at 11am - 11:50am, Center for English as a Second Language - Room 103) 
•  "The Medicalization of Pregnancy and New Reproductive Technologies" in GWS 150 Sex, Health and AIDS  (Feb 20, 2012 at 2pm - 2:50pm, Chavez Building - Room 111)