Nicole Anderson is currently Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is currently Faculty Affiliate at ASU after being the Director of The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at Arizona State University, USA, from 2021 - 2022. Prior to this role, she was in extensive leadership positions at Macquarie University, first as Associate Dean, then as Head/Director of the School of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature. She is Professor Honoris Causa for the International Institute for Hermeneutics at Warsaw University, Poland, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia.
In addition to her leadership experience, she has published extensively in the areas of animal studies, ethics, cultural studies, biopolitics, poststructuralism and posthumanism, all of which have been informed also by her scholarship on French Philosopher Jacques Derrida and Derridean deconstruction. She is the founding editor of the Derrida Today Journal (based on the work of Jacques Derrida), published by Edinburgh University Press, and which has been running since 2007. Aligned with the journal is the Derrida Today International Conferences (derridatoday.com), of which Nicole is the founding Executive Director. The conferences have been held in Britain, UK, USA, Europe, and Australia, and provides a forum for academics from around the world to discuss and apply the thinking of Derrida to contemporary world events and issues.
Publications can be viewed at: nicolejanderson.com
University of Sydney, Australia
