Helen Fielding

.Professor

Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies & Philosophy
MA, PhD (York)
Office: Lawson Hall 3237
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext 84548
hfieldin@uwo.ca

Research

My research is primarily in feminist phenomenology though my background, my teaching and writing are interdisciplinary in scope. I often write on artworks in order to think about certain questions from an embodied perspective. Thematically, I explore questions about the intersections of technology, art, perception, embodiment, and subjectivity.

Works in Progress

I'm currently co-editing a book on art, phenomenology and identity with Mariana Ortega.

Recent Publications

Books

  • Helen A. Fielding. Cultivating Perception Through Artworks: Phenomenological Enactments of Ethics, Politics and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. November, 2021.
Articles
  • Helen A Fielding. "Being Touched by Wellness: Merleau-Ponty, Nancy and the Intensive Care Unit”, Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology. On-line open access journal, 2024. Forthcoming. 

  • Fielding, H. A. “A Critical Phenomenology of Sound Art,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music, Jonathan De Souza, Benjamin Steege, and Jessica Wiskus, editors, 2023.

  • Helen A. Fielding, “The Habit Body”, in 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (eds.), Northwestern University Press. Press. 2019, pp. 155-160.

Selected Publications

Books Edited

  • Fielding, H. A. Editor. “Merleau-Ponty’s Open Futures: a Dialogue with Anishinaabe Thinking”: a dossier in Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought. Vol. 25 (2023).  Forthcoming.

  • Helen A. Fielding and Dorothea E. Olkowski (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology Futures, Indiana University Press, October 2017. (364 pages).

  • Christina Schües, Dorothea Olkowski and Helen A. Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press, 2011. (196 pages).

Articles

  • “Janet Cardiffs epochale Topographie,” in Macht—Knoten—Fleish:  Topographien des Körpers bei Foucault, Lacan und Merleau-Ponty. Translated by Anna Wieder and Sergej Seitz. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2020, pp. 301-312.

  • “The Habit Body”, in 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (eds.). Northwestern University Press, 2019, pp. 155-160. 

  • “Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto,” in Feminist Phenomenology Futures, H. Fielding and D. Olkowski, eds. Indiana University Press, 2017, pp. vii-xxii.

  • “Open Future, Regaining Possibility,” in Feminist Phenomenology Futures, H. Fielding and D. Olkowski, eds. Indiana University Press, 2017, pp. 91-109.

  • “Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto,” in Feminist Phenomenology Futures, H. Fielding and D. Olkowski, eds. Indiana University Press, 2017, pp. vii-xxii.

  • “Dwelling and Public Art: Serra and Bourgeois”, in Rachel McCann and Patricia Locke (eds.), Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture, 2016. Ohio University Press, 258-281.

  • “Dwelling and Public Art:  Serra and Bourgeois”, in Rachel McCann and Patricia Locke (eds.), Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture, 2016.  Ohio University Press, 258-281
  • Helen Fielding, "Filming Dance:  Embodied Syntax in Sasha Waltz's 'S',Paragraph (Special issue on 'Screening Embodiment') 38.1 (2015):  69-85.

  • Helen A Fielding, “Cultivating Perception:  Phenomenological Encounters with Artworks”, Signs2 (Winter 2015):  280-289.

  • “The Poetry of Habit”, in Silvia Stoller (ed.) Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter Publishers. 2014, pp. 69-81.

  • "Intermittent Relations: Questioning 'Homeland' Through Yael Bartana's Wild Seeds", in Christina Schues, Dorothea Olkowski and Helen Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press, 2011, pp. 149-170.

  • "Cultivating Perception: Phenomenological Encounters with Artworks”, Signs:  Journal on Women in Culture and Society.  Symposium on "Politics of the Sensing Subject: Gender, Perception, Art," Anne Keefe (ed). 40.2 (2015):  280-289. 

  • “Filming Dance: Embodied Syntax in Sasha Waltz’s ‘S’, Paragraph (Special Issue on ‘Screening Embodiment”) 38.1 (2015): 69-85. 

  • “The Poetry of Habit”, in Silvia Stoller (ed.) Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter Publishers. 2014, pp. 69-81.

  • “Multiple moving perceptions of the real: Arendt, Merleau-Ponty and Truitt,” Hypatia (special issue on embodiment and ethics). 26.3 (2011): 518-534.