Pleshette DeArmitt

Professor Pleshette DeArmitt was an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, serving since 2006. She held visiting positions at Grinnell College and Villanova University. Her research focuses on contemporary continental philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and social/political thought. She authored The Right to Narcissism (2013) and co-edited Sarah Kofman's Corpus (2008).

Education: PhD and MA from DePaul University, BA from Duquesne University.

She received the 2010 AAUW Post-doctoral Fellowship and held leadership roles including President of Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (SAPLF) and on the SPEP Committee on the Status of Women. Her presentations include work on Derrida, Kristeva, and Kofman's philosophy.

Teaching included undergraduate courses on feminist theory and continental philosophy, and graduate seminars on Rousseau, Freud, and Kristeva's philosophy of bios.