Dr Evelien Geerts (e.m.l.geerts@bham.ac.uk) is a multidisciplinary philosopher and Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where she is part of the Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence project.
She holds a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and (research) M.A. degrees in Philosophy and Gender & Ethnicity Studies. Her research interests include new materialisms & Deleuzoguattarian philosophy, critical epistemologies, and political philosophical questions of identity, difference, and violence. She previously has published in Philosophy Today, Women’s Studies International Forum, and Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge—publications that can be found at www.eveliengeerts.com—and is a Posthumanities Hub & PhEMaterialisms member.
Edited books and special issues
Forthcoming “Dis/abling Gender,” special issue of Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies/Journal of Gender Studies. With Josephine Hoegaerts, Kristien Hens, and Daniel Blackie
Forthcoming “Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Digital Spheres: Connecting Intersectionality and Digitality,” special issue of the Journal of Digital Social Research. With Ladan Rahbari and Sarah De Vuyst
2021 “Pedagogies in the Wild – Entanglements between Deleuzoguattarian Philosophy and the New Materialisms,” special issue of Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research 2 (2021) (1). With Delphi Carstens
2018 “Superdiversity: A critical intersectional investigation,” special issue of Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 21 (2018) 1. With Sophie Withaeckx and Nella van den Brandt
Book chapters
Forthcoming “Philosophical post-anthropology for the Chthulucene: Levinasian and feminist new materialist perspectives in more-than-human crisis times.” Internationales Jahrbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie / International Yearbook for Philosophical Anthropology volume 10. With Amarantha Groen
Forthcoming “A Feminist Cartography of Critical New Materialist Philosophies.” Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms. Edited by Felicity Colman and Iris van der Tuin. Edinburg University Press
Forthcoming “Curated panel: Hoel, Aurora and Sam Skinner. ‘Genealogies and Apparatuses’ with contributions from David Gauthier, Evelien Geerts, Sofie Sauzet, Aud Sissel Hoel, Sam Skinner, and Maria Tamboukou.” Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms. Edited by Felicity Colman and Iris van der Tuin. Edinburg University Press
2021 “Being Haunted by—and Reorienting toward—What ‘Matters’ in Times of (the COVID-19) Crisis: A Critical Pedagogical Cartography of Response-ability.” In: Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-come, 155-169. Edited by Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Siddique Motala, Dorothee Holscher. Routledge
2019 “Re-vitalizing the American feminist-philosophical classroom. Transformative academic experimentations with diffractive pedagogical tools.” In Posthumanism and Higher Education: Reimagining Pedagogy, Practice and Research. Edited by Carol A. Taylor & Annouchka Bayley, 123-140. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14672-6_7
Journal articles
2021 “Deleuzoguattarian thought, new materialisms, and (be)wild(erring) pedagogies: A conversation between Chantelle Gray, Delphi Carstens, Evelien Geerts, and Aragorn Eloff.” With the aforementioned authors. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research. Special issue ‘Pedagogies in the Wild – Entanglements between Deleuzoguattarian Philosophy and the New Materialisms.’ 2 (2021) (1): 200-223. DOI: 10.1344/jnmr.v2i1.33383
2021 “Diffraction & Reading Diffractively.” With Iris van der Tuin. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research. Special issue ‘Pedagogies in the Wild – Entanglements between Deleuzoguattarian Philosophy and the New Materialisms.’ 2 (2021) (1): 173-177. Edited republication. DOI: 10.1344/jnmr.v2i1.33380
2019 “Ethico-Onto-Epistemology.” With Delphi Carstens. Philosophy Today. Special issue ‘Materialist Concepts.’ 63 (2019) (4). DOI: 10.5840/philtoday202019301
2018 “The New Year’s Eve conference of Claudia de Breij. A diffractive, interdisciplinary discussion about (super-)diversity, gender, sexuality and religion in the Lowlands.” (in Dutch) (with An Van Raemdonck et al). Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 21 (2018) 1: 81-104. DOI: 10.5117/tvgn2018.1.geer
2016 “The Feminist Futures of Reading Diffractively: Replacing Conflict-based Readings in the Case of Beauvoir and Irigaray.” With Iris van der Tuin. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 30 (2016). DOI: 10.20415/rhiz/030.e02
Selection of academic book reviews and review essays
2020 Review of Vulnerable Futures, Transformative Pasts: On Vulnerability, Temporality and Ethics by Miri Rozmarin. Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory 23 (2020) 2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.33134/rds.336
2018 “Explorative entangled engagements with the matters of religion, theology, and science.” Review of Entangled Worlds. Religion, Science, and New Materialisms. Religion & Gender 8 (2018) 1: 129-131. DOI: 10.18352/rg.10257
2017 “‘Staying with the (political) trouble.’ Imaging new political-philosophical vocabularies for the here and now.” Review of Vulnerability in Resistance. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities special issue “Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Animal and Trans* Studies.” 22 (May 2017) 2. DOI: 10.1080/0969725x.2017.1322851
Encyclopedia entries
2016 Multiple entries for the New Materialisms Almanac. “Ethico-onto-epistem-ology,” “Performativity.” And “Literacy & Agential Literacy” and “Diffraction & Reading Diffractively” with Iris van der Tuin (December 2016)
Selection of interviews
2016 “Doing philosophy in a grounded manner.” Interview (in Dutch). Handelingen. Journal for practical theology and studies in religion 4 (2016): 59-61
2016 “On the importance of intersectional feminism. An interview with Evelien Geerts and Hanan Challouki.” (in Dutch). With Hanan Challouki and Sarah DeGreef. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 19 (2016) 4: 451-468. DOI: 10.5117/tvgn2016.4.chal