Christine Battersby is Reader Emerita
in the Department of Philosophy and
an Associate Fellow of the Centre for
Research in Philosophy, Literature and the
Arts at the University of Warwick, UK. She is
the author of Gender and Genius: Towards
a Feminist Aesthetics (The Women’s
Press and Indiana University Press, 1989,
1994); The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist
Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity
(Polity and Routledge, 1998) and The
Sublime, Terror and Human Difference
(Routledge, 2007), as well as numerous
articles on feminist aesthetics, feminist
metaphysics and the history of philosophy
and culture. Recent publications include
a chapter entitled Feminist Aesthetics
and the Categories of the Beautiful and
the Sublime in the Routledge Companion
to Feminist Philosophy, eds Ann Garry
et al. (2017), and a one called Natality,
Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime and the
Grotesque in Contemporary Sculpture, in
Motherhood in Literature and Culture, eds
Gill Rye et al. (Routledge 2017).
