Professor Emeritus
Trent University
1600 West Bank Drive
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8
Canada
CC S403
Phone: (705) 748-1011 x6007
Fax: 748-1047
E-mail: estavro@trentu.ca
Profile
Professor Stavro is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she received a Ph.D. with a thesis on the political theory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. She taught in England at Wolverhampton, Guildhall, North London and Middlesex universities, before returning to Canada to teach first at Queen's University and then, in 1990, at Trent. She has taught courses in traditional and contemporary political theory, the latter including "Theorizing Political Change" and "Feminists Theorize the Political." Her research has centered mainly on the field of feminist theory.
Recent Publications
Emancipatory Thinking, Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Political Thought, McGill Queens University Press, 2018, pp. 374. (awarded a subvention by SSHRC to assist publication.)
Stavro, E., SARS and Alterity: The Toronto-China Binary, The New Political Science. 2014. Volume 36, No. 2, pp. 172-192.
Stavro, E., “Merleau-Ponty and Revolutionary Agency”, Theory & Event. Volume 17.1, March 2014.
Stavro, E., “Rethinking identity and coalitional politics; insights from Simone de Beauvoir.” Canadian Journal of Political Science, June 2009, pps. 439-463
Stavro, E., “Working towards Reciprocity: Critical Reflections of Seyla Benhabib and Iris Young”, edited volume C Boundas, Gift, Theft, Apology in Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Volume 6, Number 2, August 2001, pps. 137-148.
Stavro, E., “Re-reading the Second Sex – Theorizing the Situation” in Feminist Theory. Volume 1, (2), 2000 pps. 131-150.
Stavro, E., “The Use and Abuse of Simone de Beauvoir: Re-evaluating The French Poststructuralist Critique”, The European Journal for Women’s Studies, August 1999, pps. 264-280.
Stavro, E. “Transgressing Sartre: embodied situated subjects in The Second Sex”, in Labyrinth: Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics Autumn 1999, pps.1- 42.
Upcoming Publications
Democracy and Event: The Perils and Promises of Catastrophe. To be published 2023 with Routledge Press.