Gail Weiss

Gail Weiss is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University. She recently served as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialism (SPEP) and as General Secretary for the International Merleau-Ponty Circle. Her previous monographs include Refiguring the Ordinary (Indiana U. Press: 2008) and Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality (Routledge 1999) and she is currently completing a monograph entitled Existential Ambiguities: Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty. In 2020 she coedited 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology (Northwestern University Press) with Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon and she has edited several other volumes on Merleau-Ponty and embodiment including Intertwinings: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty (SUNY Press: 2008), Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty with Dorothea Olkowski (Penn State Press: 2006), and Thinking the Limits of the Body with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (SUNY Press: 2003). Other publications include journal articles and book chapters that draw upon phenomenology, feminist theory, critical race theory, disability studies, literature, and queer theory to address the ways in which sexist, racist, ageist and ableist understandings of “normal bodies” differentially affect the meaning of our lived, intercorporeal experience.