Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Faculty Fellow, Women’s College
Founding Editor, Medusa: An Undergraduate Journal of Feminist Philosophy

EMAIL: jmdrouillard@muw.edu
PHONE: (662) 329-7386

About Dr. Drouillard

B.A. Goucher College
M.Sc. London School of Economics and Political Science
M.A. Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee
Ph.D. Universite Paris Sorbonne IV

Areas of Specialization: 

Feminist Philosophy, Ethics, 19th-20th Century Continental Philosophy 

Research Interests:

Reproductive Ethics, Philosophy of Sex and Gender, Social Philosophy in the United States and France, Heidegger

Selected Publications: 

Books:
Feminist Heidegger: Sex, Gender, and the Politics of Birth, Albany: SUNY Press (2025)

Journal Articles:
“Gender Critical Feminism as a Resistance to Feminism,” WiN: European Association of American Studies Women’s Network Journal, Issue 4 (2024)
“Queering Gestell: Thinking Outside Butler’s Frames and Inside Belu’s Reproductive Enframing,”Journal of Speculative Philosophy, SPEP Issue, Vol. 36, Issue 3 (2022) 
“Heidegger on Being a Sexed or Gendered Human Being,” Invited Symposium, Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Vol. 12. (2022) 
“Feminist Moral Tensions for a Nomadic Subject: Navigating the Pandemic,” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (2022) 
“The Rhetoric of Sexual Difference in French Reproductive Politics,” Culture & Dialogue special issue French Thought in Dialogue, Vol. 9, Issue 2 (2021) 
“The King was Pregnant: Reproductive Ethics and Transgender Pregnancy,” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (2021) 
“Anticipatory Imagination in Aging: Revolt and Resignation in Modern Day France,” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, special issue on Jean Améry, Vol. 24, No. 3 (2016) 

Book Chapters:
“Heidegger and Feminist Philosophy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Heidegger ed. Tobias Keiling, Ian A. Moore, and Kate Withey, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press (forthcoming).
“Problem: What is Woman? The Hermeneutics of Sex/Gender Facticity,” in Heidegger, Gender, and Dasein: Thinking the Unthought ed. Trish Glazebrook, London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2024).”
“Remembering Air in Schilingi’s Generative Music: Heideggerian Reflections on Argo and Terra,” Heidegger and Music ed. Casey Rentmeester and Jeff Warren, London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2022)