E-mail this pageWomen's Studies Faculty - Dr. Erin Mitchell
Adjuct Professor
Erin Mitchell has been teaching Introduction to Women's Studies, Feminist Frameworks, Women and Popular Culture, and Global Perspectives on Women's Issues in the Women's Studies Department since 1998. She received her Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University in 1996. Both her Master's thesis and her dissertation argued that Samuel Beckett's poetry, fiction and plays often force characters to enact philosophical systems at their extreme limits, and thus stages the absurdities, gendered violence, and implosions of such systems. Dr. Mitchell has an abiding interest in the intersections of contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis around questions of subjectivity, and especially, in challenging constructions of "feminine" subjectivity and desire. She has published poststructuralist feminist interpretations of works by Beckett, Wilde, Coetzee, Duras, and McGuckian, and is currently working on an article on images of Sinéad O'Connor. She likes shoes, gardening, and travel.
Education
- Ph.D. in English, Northwestern University
Teaching Areas
- Introduction to Women's Studies
- Feminist Frameworks
- Women and Popular Culture
- Global Perspectives on Women's Issues
Research Areas
- Intersections of contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis
- Philosophical systems used in Samuel Beckett's works
Contact Dr. Erin Mitchell
Office: Hawkins Hall 102
Phone: (518) 564-2809
E-mail: erin.mitchell@plattsburgh.edu