Dr Fiona Utley

Lecturer, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
Graduate Certificate in Sexual and Reproductive Health (FPA NSW), BA (UNE), BAHons (UNE), RN (NSW), Graduate Certificate in Women’s Health Nursing (NSW College of Nursing 2000), PhD Philosophy (UNE)
Contact
| Email: | futley2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) 128 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2475 (or +61 2 6773 2475 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3748 |
Research interests
The relationship between philosophy and the human sciences, in particular regarding phenomenological perspectives on identity, embodiment and social oppression.
Supervision Areas
Representative Publications
Utley, F. ‘Considerations towards a phenomenology of trust’, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, forthcoming.
Utley, F. (2010) ‘Stories of innocence and experience: Bodily narrative and rape,’ in Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, On the Margins, eds Jackie Leach Scully, Laurel E. Baldwin-Ragaven and Petya Fitzpatrick, The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 157-173.
Utley, F. (2010) ‘Bodily narratives and the social oppression of women’, Minerva: An Internet Journal of Philosophy, vol.14, pp 128-143.
Robertson S, Guppy M, Hussain R, Watt J, Kennedy P, Alcorn T, Vidal E, Woodward G, Horton N, Wielebinski W, Utley F, Fisher KA. (2009) ‘Prevalence of iron deficiency and associated risk factors in a rural female student population’, Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health, vol.45(9), p. A16-A17 (Conference Poster)
Member of Societies and Professional Bodies
Australasian Association of Continental Philosophy (ASCP), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Merleau-Ponty Circle.
Conference Papers
‘Considerations towards a phenomenology of trust’: Invited Speaker (full paper peer review) to Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, St Johns University, Newfoundland, October, 2011.
‘Fools fall in love in a heartbeat: the intercorporeal experience of trust as sensitive space’: Australasian Association of Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 2011.
‘Inhabiting the World: art, the body and the transformation of negative space in Man on Wire’: Australasian Association of Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, 2009.
‘Understanding the importance of Merleau-Ponty’s notion of interanimality to the development of a posthuman ethics’: Minding Animals – an International and Community Conference, Newcastle, 2009.
'Trust, the body-subject and the lived world’: Australasian Association of Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2008.
‘Merleau-Ponty and the narrating body-subject’: Merleau-Ponty Circle 2008, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, September 2008.
‘On bodily narrative and social oppression’: Australasian Association of Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2007.
‘Magical thinking and the bodily narrative of grief’: Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, University of New England, Armidale, 2007.
‘Stories of innocence and experience: Bodily narrative and rape’: Feminists and Bioethics 5th World Congress, UNSW, Sydney, 2004.
'Constructing the commodified subject’: Australasian Association of Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003.
‘Can we commodify to our hearts content?’: VIII Australasian Post-graduate Philosophy Conference, University of New England, Armidale, 2002.
