Shifra Diamond

Shifra Diamond is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Sciences, an interdisciplinary program in language, culture and society, at George Washington University. Her dissertation examines the intersections of queer theory with poststructuralist theory, looking especially at questions of referentiality and exemplarity in the work of Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. She has presented papers at the American Comparative Literature Association and the National Women's Studies Association, as well as at conferences held at George Washington University and the CUNY Graduate Center, and she recently participated in a seminar on Queer Worlds at the Cultural Studies Association. Since 2005, she has served on the conference committee for the New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) and she is currently the graduate student representative to the program committee of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST). She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn, and has taught courses on queer studies and feminist theory at New School University. She received an M.A. in Literature from Washington University, St. Louis, and a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. With Michael Jolley, she is the Project Co-Director for the Foucault Society's 2008-09 Seminar Series on Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics.