Dr. C. Heike Schotten is Assistant Professor of Political Science and is an affiliated faculty in Women’s Studies. Her areas of specialization are the history of Western political thought, U.S. feminist theory, and queer theory; she also works extensively on Nietzsche and Nietzschean political thought. Dr. Schotten is the co-founder (along with Drs. Roberto Alejandro of UMass-Amherst and Eric Nelson of UMass-Lowell) of the Northwest Atlantic Nietzsche Association (NwANA), an organization dedicated to inter-disciplinary and unorthodox study of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, facilitated through intellectual community created at the specific site of Massachusetts’ public higher education system. The NwANA seeks in particular to foreground the work of new, young, and unaffiliated scholars, women, queers, and people of color.
Dr. Schotten’s first book, Nietzsche's Revolution: Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality, has just been published with Palgrave press (July 2009). She is, most recently, co-winner of the 2009 Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory for her article, “Nietzsche/Pentheus: The Last Disciple of Dionysus and Queer Fear of the Feminine,” published in the August 2008 issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.
Dr. Schotten holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
Recent Courses taught by Dr. Schotten:
PolSci 101: Introduction to Political Science
PolSci 103: Introduction to Political Theory
PolSci 251: Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
PolSci 252: Modern Political Thought
Honors 380: Revolutionary Desire
PolSci 451: Queer Political Theory
PolSci 452: Feminist Political Theory
PolSci 455: Problems in Political Theory: Postmodern Politics
Office: Wheatley, 5-62
Email: heike.schotten@umb.edu
Phone: 617-287-6927
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