Associate Professor and Director of The Critical Life Studies Research Team. From 2023-2024, I was on a one-year, Riksbanken Jubileumsfond funded sabbatical Life’s Pasts and Futures: On Being and Science.
RESEARCH/TEACHING AREAS: 19th and 20th century European philosophy; contemporary Continental philosophy; critical social and political thought; queer, trans, gender, sexuality, and feminist theory; critical race and decolonial theory; history and philosophy of science and technology; Anthropocene, climate, animal, and posthuman theory; modern literature and literary theory.
Contact me if you are interested in finding ways to collaborate. I am available to lecture, supervise/examine at the doctoral or postdoctoral level, collaborate on joint research projects, evaluate grant applications, or serve as an external reviewer in any of the fields listed.
CONTACT: jami [at sign] jamiweinstein.net
CURRENT RESEARCH
FORTHCOMING
BOOKS
Vital Ontologies: The Facts of Life, Reconsidered (monograph, Columbia University Press)
Epigenesis: Critical Theory for the 21st Century, co-written with Claire Colebrook (Open Humanities Press/MIT).
Theory at the End of the World: Thinking with Claire Colebrook, co-edited with Rachel Loewen Walker, Rick Elmore, Vernon Cisney, eds. (Columbia University Press).
Editor, with “Foreword” and “Posthumous Conclusions”: Michel Tibon-Cornillot’s TheLaboratory Planet: Instability and the Disappearance ofIndustrial Societies (Columbia University Press).
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
“Permacrisis, Statelessness, and the Extinction of Being,” in Theory at the End of the World: Thinking with Claire Colebrook (Columbia University Press).
“On the Fundamental Instability of Life,” and “The Afterlife of the (Laboratory) Planet: Posthumous Reflections,” in Michel Tibon-Cornillot’s The Laboratory Planet: Instability and the Disappearance ofIndustrialSocieties, translated by Taylor Adkins (Columbia University Press).
“From the Cradle to the Caves: Architectures of a New Humanity,” in John Drabinski, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Fanon (Cambridge University Press).
“Terminal Lucidity: Negative Life, Dysphoria Mundi, and the Terminus,” in Comparative Literature Studies (forthcoming 2026). A book review essay on: Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024); David A. Collings, The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought (Open Humanities Press, 2023); and Paul B. Preciado. Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition (Graywolf Press, 2025).
PLANNED FUTURE PROJECTS:
Permacrisis (monograph)
Vital Politics: On Life and Indifference (monograph)
Claire Colebrook and Jami Weinstein, “Anthropocene Feminisms” special issue of philosSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 2015: 5.2. With Claire Colebrook.
Eva Haywardand Jami Weinstein, “Tranimalities” special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 2015: 2.2, 195-208. With Eva Hayward.
Claire Colebrook and Jami Weinstein, “Deleuze and Gender” special issue of Deleuze Studies 2008: 2. Later published as Deleuze and Gender. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
ARTICLES / CHAPTERS
“Is Another World Possible?: On Queer and Black Being and Rethinking the Future,” Lambda Nordica: Journal of LGBTQ Studies. Special issue ‘Thinking Wildly with Jack Halberstam’ (in press, 2026).
Claire Colebrook and Jami Weinstein, “Preface: Postscript on the Posthuman,” in Jami Weinstein and Colebrook, Claire (eds.) Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
Claire Colebrook and Jami Weinstein, “Anthropocene Feminisms: Rethinking the Unthinkable,” in “Anthropocene Feminisms” special issue of philosSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 5.2, 2015. Co-edited by Claire Colebrook and Jami Weinstein.
“Transgenres and the Plane of Gender Imperceptibility,” in Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice. Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni, and Fanny Söderbäck, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
“Dokusåpan: det sociala livet som ett laboratorieexperiment” [Reality TV: Social Life as Laboratory Experiment”], in Fenomenologi, teknik och medialitet [Phenomenology, Technology, and Mediality], Leif Dahlberg & Hans Ruin, eds. Södertörn Philosophical Studies 2011, 185-214.
Jami Weinstein and Jeffrey Bussolini, “Comblement/Fulfillment: Toward an Ontological Ethics of Sex,” in Yolanda Estes, Arnold Lorenzo Farr, Patricia Smith, and Clelia Smyth, eds. Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture. University Press of Kansas, 2000, 71-95.
“Against Care: Toward an Ethics of Indifference and Multiplicity,” ‘Who Cares?’ In Contemporary Women’s Writing & Film seminar series, Institute for Languages, Cultures, and Societies, School of Advanced Study University of London • 21/5/22
“Vital Philology: On Critique and Life,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (virtual conference) • 18/9/21
“Epigenesis/Epigenetics: Rethinking Personal Identity in a Post-Genetic Framework,” Philosophy Department, Linköping University, SE • 26/5/21.
“Queer Life in Epigenetic Times,” Queerseminariet, Uppsala University, SE • 24/9/18
“Fatal Attraction: Epistemic Politics and Obsessive Conceptual Disorder,” A Critique of Our Own: On the Epistemic Habits of Academic Feminism Conference,University of Turku, FI • 15/4/16
“The Metahumanism of the Anthropocene,” Anthropocene Feminism, C21 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US • 13/4/14
“Cruising Dystopia: Queerfeminist Futurities and the Anthropocene,” Keynote, Pervot Perinteet – Queer Traditions, University of Turku, FI • 26/9/14
“Wild Life: The Prospect of a Posthumous Indifference Ethics,” Mattering: Feminism, Science & Materialism, City University of New York, US • 15/2/13
“Wild Life: The Prospect of a Posthumous Indifference Ethics,” The Posthuman: Differences, Embodiments, Performativity, Universita di Roma III, IT • 14/9/13
“Theory Sex as a Feminist Method,” Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies (FEMMSS) Conference, Pennsylvania State University, US • 12/5/12
“Posthuman Affect Redux,” Between Bodies: Emotion, Sense, Affect, Uppsala University, SE • 19/11/10
“Posthuman Affect,” Affective Tendencies International Conference, Rutgers University, US • 8/10/10
“Posthumous Life: Toward an Inhuman Ethico-politics,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, US • 21/10/11
“The Move to Genre: Evolution and Imperceptibility,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Montreal, CA 5/11/10 and University of Dundee, Scotland, UK • 3/2/10
“Reality TV: Life in the Petri Dish,” KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, SE • 11/3/09
CURRICULUM VITAE
POSITIONS
2021-present – Uppsala University (SE), Researcher and Senior Lecturer at Centre for Gender Research
2014-present – Linköping University (SE), Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, Director of The Critical Life Studies Research Group, Gender Studies; Senior Lecturer, English.
2010-2014 – Linköping University (SE), University Associate Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Director of The Zoontology Research Team, Gender Studies
2008-2010 – Utrecht University (NL), Assistant Professor, Gender and Media Studies Department
2006-2008 – Mount Holyoke College (US), Assistant Professor, Gender Studies and Philosophy Departments
Fall 2005 – Södertörn University College (SE), Visiting Researcher, Gender Studies
2001-2006 – Vassar College (US), Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Science and Technology, and Environmental Studies Departments
1997-2001 – Bernard Baruch College, City University of New York (US), Lecturer, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Philosophy Department
Spring 1997 – Purchase College, State University of New York (US), Lecturer, Philosophy Department
1994-1997 – Hunter College, City University of New York (US), Lecturer, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Philosophy Department
1993-1998 – John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (US), , Lecturer, Philosophy Department
EDUCATION
2013 – Linköping University – Docent (Habilitation)
2007 – L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (FR) – Doctorat: Histoires des Techniques (Ph.D. History of Science and Technology)
2005 – City University of New York Graduate School (US) – Doctorate (Ph.D.): Philosophy, Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies
1999-2000 – Université de Paris IV (FR) – Visiting doctoral student, Philosophy
1995 – New York University (US) – Master’s Degree: Philosophy
1990 – Barnard College, Columbia University (US) – Bachelor’s Degree: Major Philosophy, Minor Political Science
1988-1989 – Gonzaga University in Florence (IT) – Exchange student
CONTACT
Contact me if you are interested in finding ways to collaborate. I am available to lecture, supervise/examine at the doctoral or postdoctoral level, collaborate on joint research projects, design courses or programmes, evaluate grant applications, or serve as an external reviewer in any relevant field.
