Ismay Barwell

Senior Lecturer
BA (Hons) Otago
BPhil Oxon
PhD VUW

Profile

Ismay Barwell has taught at Monash, Melbourne and Holy Cross College, Massachusetts as well as Victoria.

Research Areas

Ismay Barwell’s main research and teaching interests are in feminist philosophy, aesthetics and narrative theory.

Current Teaching

WISC/PHIL/POLS 217 Feminist Theory
PHIL 313/413 Aesthetics
PHIL 409 Topics in Contemporary Philosophy
PHIL 215/315 Philosophy of Film
PHIL 107 Philosophy of Media and the Arts
PHIL 105 The Big Questions
PHIL 222/322 Philosophy of Literature

Selected Publications

'Who's Telling this Story, Anyway? Or, How to Tell the Gender of a Storyteller' Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (1995) 227-238.

'Feminine Perspective and Narrative Points of View' in Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective, Hein, Hilde (ed) Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1993.

'Feminine Perspectives and Narrative Points of View' Hypatia 5 (1990) 63-75.

'How Does Art Express Emotion?' Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 45 (1986) 175-181.

'The Principle of Sufficient Reason' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 83 (1982-83) 19-34.