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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Melissa A. Orlie

Melissa A. Orlie

Associate Faculty
245 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 333-2574
orlie@illinois.edu


Ph.D. 1991 Princeton University, Department of Politics.

research interests:

Political theory.

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

  • Living Ethically, Acting Politically. Contestations Series (Cornell University Press, 1997).


Chapters in Books

  • "Charles Taylor and Feminism: From recognition of identity to a politics of the good," Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor. Edited by Ruth Abbey, (Cambridge University Press, 2004): 104-165.v
  • "Economic Globalization and Democracy", in International Perspectives on Democracy, edited by Peter Nardulli (University of Illinois Press, 2008).

Articles in Journals

  • "The desire for freedom and the consumption of politics" Philosophy & Social Criticism, 28(4) (2002): 395-417.
  • "Mass Support for Power Politics" South Atlantic Quarterly 105:1 (Winter 2006): 217-240.
  • "There is no alternative" Theory & Event 12.2 (2009)

Pending Articles

  • “Impersonal Matter” in Materialism and Subjectivity edited by Samantha Frost and Diana Coole (Duke University Press, forthcoming)

Other Publications

  • Melissa A. Orlie, Review of Loneliness as a Way of Life by Thomas Dumm, Political Theory 37(6) (December 2009).