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Overview
I am part of the School's Philosophy Group.
My research and teaching interests are in existentialism, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and the burgeoning discipline of feminist philosophy of technology.
Publication
2024
- Edwards, M. L. 2024. Feminine complicity and women's 'destiny'. Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture, pp. 80-92. (10.3167/ssi.2024.300207)
- Edwards, M. 2024. The Bloomsbury handbook of existentialism (2nd ed.) by Jack Reynolds, Ashley Woodward, and Felicity Joseph (eds.), (Bloomsbury, 2024). [Book Review]. Philosophy
2023
- Edwards, M. L. and Palermos, S. O. eds. 2023. Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. Routledge. (10.4324/9781003275992)
- Edwards, M. L. 2023. Understanding incels as a group. In: Edwards, M. L. and Palermos, S. O. eds. Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies. Routledge, pp. 209-227.
2022
- Edwards, M. L. 2022. Sartre's existential psychoanalysis: Knowing others. Bloomsbury.
- Edwards, M. 2022. The development of Sartre's realistic metaphysics. Review of Metaphysics 75(3), pp. 559-586. (10.1353/rvm.2022.0007)
2021
- Edwards, M. 2021. Sartre and Beauvoir on women's psychological oppression. Sartre Studies International 27(1), article number: 46. (10.3167/ssi.2021.270104)
2020
- Edwards, M. L. 2020. Fifty Shades of Grey: A romance that we cannot resist?. In: Atwal, J. and Flessenkämper, I. eds. Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: Situating India. Routledge, pp. 217-231.
2019
- Edwards, M. L. 2019. Insider knowledge: A lover's delusion?. In: Auxier, R. E. and Volpert, M. eds. Tom Petty and Philosophy: We Need to Know. Open Court, pp. 69-78.
2018
- Edwards, M. 2018. Gender, shame, and the pantsuit. Hypatia 33(3), pp. 571-577. (10.1111/hypa.12412)
- Edwards, M. 2018. Acute gendered shame demystified. Discipline Filosofiche 28(2), pp. 199-220.
Articles
- Edwards, M. L. 2024. Feminine complicity and women's 'destiny'. Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture, pp. 80-92. (10.3167/ssi.2024.300207)
- Edwards, M. 2024. The Bloomsbury handbook of existentialism (2nd ed.) by Jack Reynolds, Ashley Woodward, and Felicity Joseph (eds.), (Bloomsbury, 2024). [Book Review]. Philosophy
- Edwards, M. 2022. The development of Sartre's realistic metaphysics. Review of Metaphysics 75(3), pp. 559-586. (10.1353/rvm.2022.0007)
- Edwards, M. 2021. Sartre and Beauvoir on women's psychological oppression. Sartre Studies International 27(1), article number: 46. (10.3167/ssi.2021.270104)
- Edwards, M. 2018. Gender, shame, and the pantsuit. Hypatia 33(3), pp. 571-577. (10.1111/hypa.12412)
- Edwards, M. 2018. Acute gendered shame demystified. Discipline Filosofiche 28(2), pp. 199-220.
Book sections
- Edwards, M. L. 2023. Understanding incels as a group. In: Edwards, M. L. and Palermos, S. O. eds. Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies. Routledge, pp. 209-227.
- Edwards, M. L. 2020. Fifty Shades of Grey: A romance that we cannot resist?. In: Atwal, J. and Flessenkämper, I. eds. Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: Situating India. Routledge, pp. 217-231.
- Edwards, M. L. 2019. Insider knowledge: A lover's delusion?. In: Auxier, R. E. and Volpert, M. eds. Tom Petty and Philosophy: We Need to Know. Open Court, pp. 69-78.
Books
- Edwards, M. L. and Palermos, S. O. eds. 2023. Feminist philosophy and emerging technologies. Routledge. (10.4324/9781003275992)
- Edwards, M. L. 2022. Sartre's existential psychoanalysis: Knowing others. Bloomsbury.
Research
A key aim of my research to date has been to highlight the philosophical significance of Jean-Paul Sartre's biographical studies and the psychoanalytical method he developed. See, my monograph, Sartre's Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others (Bloomsbury, 2023).
I also work in feminist philosophy. I have published papers on the gendered politics of shame, women's psychological oppression, the meanings that are projected onto women's bodies, as well as a book chapter that draws upon recent research into the phenomenon of 'imaginative resistance' to provide a feminist critique of Fifty Shades of Grey. More recently, I have been analysing electronically mediated relations from a feminist perspective and written a chapter on 'Understanding Incels as a Group' for a volume I have edited with S. Orestis Palermos, entitled Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies (Routledge, forthcoming).
Research interests:
- existentialism
- feminist philosophy
- psychoanalysis
- phenomenology (especially the phenomenology of social emotions)
- feminist philosophy of technology
- philosophy of imagination
Teaching
Undergraduate:
- French Existentialism
- Philosophy of Feminism
- The Social Imagination
Postgraduate:
- Other People
Biography
I joined Cardiff University as a Teacher in Philosophy in January 2018. I previously worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland, where I was awarded my PhD in 2017.
See my Academia page for my full CV: https://cardiff.academia.edu/MaryEdwards
Contact Details
+44 29225 14548
John Percival Building, Room 1.43, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Research themes
Specialisms
- Feminist theory
- Existentialism
- Psychoanalytic philosophy
- Feminist philosophy of technology
