Elizabeth A. Grosz (born 1952) is an Australian philosopher, feminist theorist, and professor working in the U.S. She is Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor Emerita at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, U.S. Elizabeth A. Grosz was born in 1952 in Sydney, Australia.
[2] She studied for a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree at the University of Sydney, where in 1981, she received her PhD from the Department of General Philosophy.
[4] From 1999 to 2001, she was professor of Comparative Literature and English at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
[3] Since 2019 and as of February 2024[update] Grosz is Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University.
[5] Grosz has written on 20th-century French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze, as well as on gender, sexuality, temporality, and Darwinian evolutionary theory.