Lynne HufferSamuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy

Lynne Huffer is a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. She holds a PhD in French Literature from the University of Michigan (1989) and has taught at Yale (1989-1998) and Rice (1998-2005) Universities. Her published work is widely cited and reviewed, and she is frequently invited to speak at both academic and non-academic venues. She has won four major teaching prizes at Emory and Rice Universities, as well as the Modern Languages Association Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship in English (2011).

She is the author of six books. They include a collage-style philosophical work in fragments, These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction; a trilogy on Foucault’s ethics of eros, Foucault’s Strange Eros (2020), Are the Lips a Grave? (2013), and Mad for Foucault (2010); and two other books on feminist theory, Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures (1998); and Another Colette (1992).

She has published articles on the Anthropocene, autotheory, Foucault, feminist theory, queer theory, and ethics. Her personal essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in Wild Iris Review, Blue Lake Review, Forge, Cadillac Cicatrix, Dos Passos Review, Eleven Eleven, Passager, The Rambler, Rio Grande Review, Southern California Review, Sou'wester, and Talking River Review.

She has had writer's residencies at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming, Hambidge Center in Dillard, GA, and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. She also co-produced, with Chicago artist Jennifer Yorke, a limited edition collaborative artists book, Wading Pool.

She is also a collage and installation artist who offers collaborative workshops on the aesthetics of the fragment and experimental writing practices. Three of her altered books have been acquired by Bryn Mawr College of their Special Collections. For a gallery of her artistic work see her personal website, http://thoughtcollage.net/. Also see her collages on Instagram @lrhuffer or use the QR code below.

For an interview about her work, see the APA blog “Genealogies of Philosophy” in two parts:

https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/03/05/genealogies-of-philosophy-lynne-huffer-part-i/

https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/04/02/genealogies-of-philosophy-lynne-huffer-part-ii/

Foucault | Feminist Theory | Queer Theory | Extinction Studies | Experimental Writing| Modern French Philosophy | Irigaray | Environmental Humanities | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Modern French and Francophone Literature | Literary Theory | Ethics

These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction, Duke University Press, 2025.

“Unbearable Speech.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (2024) 35 (3): 34-62.

“Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary.” boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture (2024) 51 (4): 65-97.