Vanessa Lemm

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About Vanessa Lemm

PhD in Philosophy (New School), MA in Philosophy (Kings College), DEA, Licence, DEUG in Philosophy (Sorbonne). Nietzsche-Fellow, Klassik Stiftung, Weimar. Researcher, Culture, Language and Politics (CLEPO), Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University, Madrid. Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Editor Nietzsche-Studien De Gruyter. Editor Contemporary Nietzsche, Book series Edinburgh University Press. She was the Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University (2021-2022). Inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University (2018-2021). Previously she was the Head of School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales (2012-2018). Prior to her appointment as Head of School she was the Director of the Institute of Humanities, an interdisciplinary research center offering graduate programs in the arts and social sicences at the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile (2008-2012). Her current research project focuses on posthumanism, plant studies and the planetary turn in the humanities and social sciences and the influence of Ancient Cynicism on contemporary conceptions of community. She has published extensively on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, contemporary political thought, biopolitics, animal and plant studies, theories of justice and the gift. She is the author of Homo Natura: Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (Fordham University Press, 2009), Nietzsche y el pensamiento politico contemporáneo (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2013). She recently published with Miguel Vatter the edited volume The Viral Politics of Covid-19: Nature, Home and Planetary Health (Palgrave 2022) and Nietzsche’s Natures (De Gruyter 2024) with Antonia Ulrich. Other edited volumes include Hegel, Pensador de la actualidad (Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010) in collaboration with Juan Omeño; Michel Foucault: Neoliberalismo y biopolítica (Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010); The Government of Life: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism (Fordham University Press, 2014) with Miguel Vatter; Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life (Fordham University Press, 2015) and Nietzsche y el devenir de la vida (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2014).