Turning On the Mind
November 06, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/665860.Turning_On_the_Mind Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television by Tamara Chaplin, Tamara Chaplin In 1951, the eight…
Dr. Tamara Chaplin Phd.
Tamara Chaplin is Associate Professor of Modern European History, and has Faculty Affiliations in Gender and Women’s Studies and in Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies. A scholar of contemporary France, she specializes in Modern European cultural and intellectual history, the histories of gender and sexuality, feminist and critical theory, queer studies, human rights, popular culture and the media. Her first book, Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television (University of Chicago Press, 2007), argues that the history of the televising of philosophy in France is crucial to understanding the struggle over French national identity in the postwar period. Dr. Chaplin is interested in the influence of mass media and globalization on the construction of national identities, on the links between high and popular culture, and on the relationship between politics, law, the media and the social institution of moral values. New projects on the history of sex-education and the history of lesbian life in postwar France extend these interests to new domains. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, the Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship for Research in Ethics and the Bourse Chateaubriand, among others. Recipient of the Queen Teaching Prize for Instruction in History (2010), Dr. Chaplin teaches survey and special topics courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels on modern Europe, France, sexuality, the body, human rights, intellectuals, twentieth century revolutions, media and popular culture. Her courses reflect her commitment to the historical analysis of multiple media forms and often employ sources from film, music, art and television. A former professional ballet dancer, trained actor, and member of both the Screen Actor’s Guild and Canadian Actor’s Equity, Professor Chaplin received her doctorate in Modern European History from Rutgers University in 2002. Dr. Chaplin’s second book project, tentatively titled, Sappho Comes Out: Lesbian Life in Postwar France, is an examination of how lesbians have made claims on the French public sphere in the post-WWII era. This research seeks to tell a completely unwritten history about lesbian life in postwar France while working through the complicated relationship between sexuality, identity politics and French republicanism via the lens of the media. By analyzing how lesbians in France have fought for social, cultural, legal and political recognition in a country where the protection of the abstract liberal individual militates against official acknowledgment of sexual, religious, ethnic or racial identity, Sappho Comes Out investigates the difficulties of exercising difference, writ large, in a globalizing world.
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