Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.  She is the author of over 100 articles and ten books.  Her most recent books include: Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film; Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us To Be Human; Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media; The Colonization of Psychic Space: Toward a Psychoanalytic Social Theory; Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir; and Witnessing: Beyond Recognition.  She has also edited several books, including The Portable Kristeva. ()