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Jessica Elbert Decker

Associate Professor of Philosophy,

CSU San Marcos

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Jessica Elbert Decker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, San Marcos, where she teaches courses in the Philosophy and Environmental Studies department. Her publications approach Ancient Greek texts (especially Homer, Sappho, and the Presocratics) using the tools of feminist and ecofeminist theory, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. She is co-editor of Borderlands and Liminal Subjects (with Dylan Winchock), Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture (co-edited with Danielle Layne and Monica Vilhauer), and has articles forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy (edited by Sara Brill and Catherine McKeen), Inquiries Into Being: Essays on Parmenides (edited by Colin Smith), and Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece (edited by Jill Gordon). Her work has been published in Epoche: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy Today, Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism.

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