Foucault Studies

Wendy Grace
University of Western Australia
Australia

Wendy Grace completed her doctorate in 2010, with the thesis Michel Foucault’s Power: A History of Sexuality Beyond the Desires of French Psychoanalysis. She has published an article on Foucault and Deleuze as “Faux Amis” in Critical Inquiry (2009), a chapter on “Foucault and the Freudians” in the Blackwell Companion to Foucault (2013), and is the author, with Alec McHoul of A Foucault Primer (1992). Wendy has taught on Foucault and 20th century French intellectual history, and is currently teaching the history of anthropological ideas at Murdoch University. Her main area of research interest is the scientific uncoupling of pleasure and procreation in the nineteenth century.