Associate Professor
Princeton University, 1987

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Office: 3333 Bunche Hall
Phone: (310) 825-3650
Fax: (310) 825-0778
E-mail: kmmac@polisci.ucla.edu

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UCLA Department of Political Science
4289 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472

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Field:

Political Theory

Research Interests:

Notes:
Kirstie M. McClure is interested in historically inflected political theory, principally from the Renaissance to the present. Since the Renaissance, however, pivoted around the rediscovery of antiquity, her interests necessarily extend to the Greek and Roman literatures that so fascinated early modern European political writers. Professor McClure's seminars over the years have focused on modern and contemporary political theory, the history and historiography of political literatures, contemporary literary theory, and feminist theory. They have included courses on such particular thinkers as Locke, Machiavelli and Rousseau, or Bakhtin, as well as more general topical explorations of "History and Theory," "Politics, Theory, and Narrative," "Politic Reading: the Problem of the Historical Text in Political Theory and Literary Studies," and "The Subject of Rights." Her current research focuses on "History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights." As the 2001-2002 William Andrews Clark Professor she will be directing the Clark Library and Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies Core Program, on this topic, and offering related graduate seminars in Fall 2001 and Spring 2002. In addition to "Judging Rights: Lockean Politics and the Limits of Consent" (Cornell, 1996)

Selected Publications:

• Between the Castigation of Texts and the Excess of Words: Political Theory in the Margins of Tradition, in Aryeh Botwinick and William Connolly, eds., Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)
• Figuring Authority: Statistical Science, Liberal Narrative, and the Vanishing Subject, Theory & Event (June 1999)
• Speaking in Tenses: Narrative, Politics, and Historical Writing, Constellations (June 1998)
• The Odor of Judgment: Exemplarity, Propriety, and Politics in the Company of Hannah Arendt, in Craig Calhoun and John McGowan, eds., Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997)
• Taking Liberties in Foucault's Triangle: Sovereignty, Discipline, Governmentality, and the Subject of Rights, in Austin Sarat and Tom Kearns (eds), Politics, Identities, and Rights (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996)