Independent Colleges, Dublin

Faculty Member, Arts and Psychotherapy

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Michael O’Rourke lectures in the School of Psychotherapy at Independent Colleges, Dublin, Ireland and works mostly at the intersections between Queer Theory and continental philosophy. He is the co-author of The Pervert’s Guide to Reading (Punctum Books, forthcoming), co-editor of Love, Sex, Intimacy and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan 2003, paperback 2007), Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World (Palgrave Macmillan 2006), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (Ashgate 2009) and Speculative Medievalisms 1 and 2 (Punctum Books, forthcoming), and the editor of Derrida and Queer Theory (Palgrave, 2011, forthcoming) and Reading Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Gender, Sexuality, Embodiment (Ashgate, 2011, forthcoming). He is the editor or co-editor of special issues of the journals, Romanticism on the Net (“Queer Romanticisms”), borderlands (“Jacques Rancière on the Shores of Queer Theory”), Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge (“The Becoming-Deleuzoguattarian of Queer Studies”), Medieval Feminist Review (“Queer Methodologies and/or Queers in Medieval Studies”), Studies in the Maternal (“Encounter-Events: Reading Bracha L. Ettinger’s The Matrixial Borderspace”), Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory (“PEST”, forthcoming, 2012), Studies in Gender and Sexuality (“On Lisa Baraitser’s Maternal Encounters”, forthcoming 2011), and Glossator: Theory and Practice of the Commentary (“Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida”, forthcoming 2012). He has published over forty articles and book chapters, has co-convened The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research since 2002, and is the series editor of the Queer Interventions book series at Ashgate and of the Cultural Connections: Key Thinkers and Queer Theory book series. He is also an advisory editor for the journals Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, Glossator: Theory and Practice of the Commentary, Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory, InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies, O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies and for the Punctum Books series. He is a research affiliate of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gender and Sexuality in Europe (CISSGE) at the University of Exeter, UK and the Somatechnics Research Centre at Macquarie University, Australia and is also a member of the Queer(y)ing Psychology Collective and the BABEL Working Group.

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