Carla Lam

Biography

  Carla Lam is a senior lecturer of political theory and gender politics in the Politics Department at University of Otago. After receiving her PhD in political theory from Carleton University in 2005, she lectured at Queen’s University, then moved to New Zealand in July 2008. Her research interests include the history of ideas, feminist philosophy of embodiment, feminist post-constructionism or new materialism, and feminist studies of science and technology. Most recent publications include two chapters in the MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks Gender series, on “Feminist Biology” and “Reproductive Technology” and an article, “Thinking Through Post-constructionism: Reflections on (Reproductive)Disembodiment and Misfits.”   Current research continues to focus on the intellectual and practical divides between doing and being, or thoughts and matter.  

Research Interest

Carla's research interests include the history of ideas, feminist philosophy of embodiment, feminist post-constructionism or new materialism, and feminist studies of science and technology.