Liz Kinnamon
About Liz Kinnamon
Liz Kinnamon works at the intersection of Marxist feminism, attention studies, and critical theory. Their dissertation tracks the concept of "attention" since the mid-twentieth century from a materialist perspective, analyzing the degree to which "presence" is precluded or facilitated by styles of labor. As a part of this project, Kinnamon reads second-wave feminism slantwise, suggesting that 60s and 70s radical feminism was not only experimental and indeterminate but that they developed revolutionary methods for bridging the personal (Freud) and the political (Marx). The first publication from their dissertation reads the Silicon Valley mindfulness movement alongside Foucault's Care of the Self, and is featured in the special issue of Women & Performance "Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies." They are the former managing editor of Feminist Formations—the founding journal of the National Women’s Studies Association—an advisory board member of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, an editorial board member of Les Figues Press, and a member of the Monique Wittig scholarship committee. They are also a member of the community-based Women's Studies Advisory Council (WOSAC).
Research Interests: Gender and sexuality studies; the history of racial capitalism; psychoanalysis; trans, queer, and feminist theory; attention and perception; Marxism; Science and Technology Studies; performance studies; affect theory; social movements
2019-2020, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2019-2020, AAUW Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Declined)
2018, Mary Lily research grant, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University
2016, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council
2016, Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, Graduate Fellowship
Public Scholarship:
- United States v. Scott Daniel Warren, The New Inquiry (June 2019)
- An Interview with Nancy K. Miller for her new book My Brilliant Friends at Bookforum
- "Contextomy," for Brave, Beautiful Outlaws: The Photographs of Donna Gottschalk at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (October 2018)
- Desire is Surplus Energy: "I Love Dick" between Text and TV, Los Angeles Review of Books (September 2017)
- Elegant Uprooted Things: Jack Spicer, California, and Psychoanalysis, Open Space (October 2016)
- The Male Sentimental, Mixed Feelings (May 2016)
- Madness, SCUM Manifesto, and Valerie Solanas—history's most famous lipstick misandrist, BOMB Magazine (January 2015)
Degree(s)
MA, Gender & Women's Studies, University of Arizona
BA, Women's Studies, University of Georgia
Research Interests
trans and queer theory; psychoanalysis; intersectional feminist theory and epistemology; feminist history; affect; history and philosophy of science; historical materialism and Marxist studies; performance studies
Courses Taught
GWS 200: Women and Western Culture
GWS 260: Sex, Gender, and Technology
GWS 150: Sex, Health, and AIDS
