Dorothea Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is the former Co-chair of the Dept. of Philosophy and former Director of Women’s Studies. Specializing in feminist theory, phenomenology and contemporary French philosophy, she has been a Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. Her publications include Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation (1999) and Resistance, Flight, Creation, Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy (2000). She has just completed two books, Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty (with Gail Weiss, Penn State University Press) and The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible) forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press, both 2006.