Lori Jo Marso - Publications
Books
Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women, Routledge, 2006.
(Un)Manly Citizens: J.J.Rousseau's and Germaine de Staël's Subversive Women, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender, Coedited with Michaele Ferguson, Duke University Press, 2007.
Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Thinking, Coedited with Patricia Moynagh, University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Articles
"H. Mark Roelofs: Prophecy, Existentialism, and Transformation," New Political Science, 32:3, September 2010.
"Feminism's Quest for Common Desires," Perspectives on Politics, 8:1, 263-269, March 2010.
"Marriage and Bourgeois Respectability," Symposium on Whatever Happened to Feminist Critiques of Marriage?, Politics and Gender, 6:1, 145-153, March 2010.
"The Perversions of Bored Liberals," Critical Exchange with Don Herzog, Political Theory, 36:1, 123-127, 2008.
"A Feminist Search for Love: Emma Goldman on the Politics of Marriage, Love, Sexuality, and the Feminine" Feminist Theory 4:3, December 2003.
"Defending the Queen: Wollstonecraft and Staël on the Politics of Sensibility and Feminine Difference" The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, 43:2, Summer 2002.
"Defying Fraternity: Woman as Citizen in Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy," Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 28:6, December 1999.
"The Stories of Citizens: Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Staël Challenge Enlightenment Reason," Polity, Volume XXX, Number 3, Spring 1998.
"The Loving Citizen: Germaine de Staël's Delphine," The Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 5, Number 2, June 1997.
Chapters in Books
"Feminism and the Complications of Freeing the Women of Afghanistan and Iraq," W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender, Edited by Michaele Ferguson and Lori Jo Marso (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007).
"A Feminist Search for Love: Emma Goldman on the Politics of Marriage, Love, Sexuality, and the Feminine," Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman, Edited by Penny Weiss and Loretta Kensinger, Re-Reading the Canon Series (College Park: Penn State University Press, 2007).
"Beauvoir on Mothers, Daughters, and Political Coalitions," Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thinking, Edited by Lori Jo Marso and Patricia Moynagh (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois University Press, 2006).
"Rousseau’s Subversive Women," Feminist Interpretations of J.J. Rousseau, Edited by Lynda Lange, Re-Reading the Canon Series (College Park: Penn State University Press, 2002), 245-276.
"Rousseau's Sophie: Natural Woman, Virtuous Citizen," The Image of Nature, Will Wright and Steven Kaplan (eds.) (Pueblo: University of Southern Colorado Press, 1993), 357-67.
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Germaine de Staël: The Nature of the Female Heroine," European Studies Conference 1992 Selected Proceedings, (Omaha: University of Nebraska at Omaha Press, 1993).
Book Reviews
"Freaks of Nature," Review Essay, Political Theory, forthcoming.
Review Essay: Nature and History in American Political Development, by Janes W. Ceaser (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006); The Politics of Survival, by Marc Abélès (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010); Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things, by Jane Bennett (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010).
The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance by Penelope Deutscher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Perspectives on Politics 7 (2009): 173-174.
"Embodied Political Subjects," Political Theory, 35:1, 85-92, 2007.
Review Essay: Parité! Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, by Joan Wallach Scott (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005); Undoing Gender, by Judith Butler (New York: Routledge, 2004); The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory beyond the Reign of Reason, by Cheryl Hall (New York: Routledge, 2005).
"The Original Style Queen." Women's Review of Books, 24:3, 2007.
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2006).
Eight Women Philosophers: Theory, Politics, and Feminism by Jane Duran (University of Illinois Press, 2006) Politics and Gender, 2:04, 2007.
Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind by Eugenia C. Delamotte (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004) Feminist Theory.
Encountering Tragedy: Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order by Steven Johnston (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), American Political Science Review 96:1, March 2002.
"Defying the Emporer," Women's Review of Books, Vol. XVIII, No. 6, March 2001.
Ten Years of Exile by Germaine de Staël, Trans. Avriel H. Goldberger (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000),
The Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics by Melissa M. Matthes (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2000), Canadian Journal of Political Science, 34:4, December 2001.
Feminism and Citizenship by Rian Voet, Journal of Politics, Volume 63, May 2001.
Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft, Ed. Maria Falco (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1996), Women and Politics, 23:4.
Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt, Ed. Bonnie Honig (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1995), Women and Politics 20:2, April 1999.
Invited Lectures and Public Appearances
Feminist Theory Pre-Conference, Western Political Science Association, "Feminism's Quest for Common Desires," San Francisco, March 2010.
Invited Speaker, "Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil: Reflections on Moral Blindness Symposium," Bard College, Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking, February 2009.
Invited Speaker, "What's at Stake for Women in the 2008 Elections?" Wagner College, Staten Island, NY, September 2008.
Symposium Speaker, "Women’s Choices and the Future of Feminism," University of Colorado, Boulder, May 2008.
Against The Grain Radio Interview with C.S. Soong, KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA, on 13 November, 2007, on "Feminism and the Complications of Freeing the Women of Afghanistan and Iraq," from W Stands for Women.
Interview with Frank Stasio for North Carolina Public Radio on W Stands for Women, 30 August, 2007.
Keynote Speaker, Midwest Women’s Studies Association Conference, University of South Dakota, March 2007.
C-Span Book TV, August 2006
Food for Thought, South Dakota Public Radio, 18 August, 2006, Interview on Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity.
51% National Public Radio, Interview with Mary Darcy on Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity, September 2006, and March 2007.
Women’s History Month Featured Speaker, Utica College, March 2002, "Emma Goldman’s Sexual Politics."
Views on Citizenship Colloquium, Ohio State University, January 2002 "Citizenship and Sexual Difference."
Feminist Theory Pre-Conference, Western Political Science Association, San Jose, California, March 2000, "Simone de Beauvoir on Dilemmas of Feminine Desire."
Providence College, Political Science Department and Women’s Studies Department, October 1999, "Personal and Political Revolutions: Reading the Memoirs of Germaine de Staël and Mary Wollstonecraft," and "Biography and the Political Woman."
Grants and Honors
2009 Marian Irish Award, "Feminism's Quest for Common Desires", Southern Political Science Association, January 2009
2008 Betty Nesvold Women and Politics Award, "Feminism’s Quest for Common Desires," Western Political Science Association, March 21, 2008.
Finalist, Stilman Award for Outstanding Teaching, Union College, 2006-07.
National Endowment for the Humanities: "Dilemmas of Feminine Desire: Autobiographical Transgressions on the Margins of Political Thought, " 2000-2001.
Cornell University, School of Criticism and Theory, Participant in Hayden White’s Seminar, "Theory of the Text," Summer 1998.
Union College
Faculty Research Grant, Summer 2002
Internal Education Funding, Cultural Studies Seminar, 1998-1999
Faculty Research Grant, Summer 1998
University of Texas at San Antonio
Faculty Research Grant, 1995-96
New York University
Bradley Fellowship, 1993-94
Dean’s Dissertation Award, 1992-93
Penfield Fellowship, 1991-92
Graduate Fellowships, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91