Samantha Frost

About

Samantha Frost teaches political theory and feminist theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Her early research focused on elaborating the philosophical, ethical, and political implications of Thomas Hobbes’s materialist metaphysics, work that took systematic form in Lessons from a materialist thinker: Hobbesian reflections on ethics and politics (Stanford UP, 2008). Subsequently, she worked to articulate how materialist conceptual frameworks transform thinking; this work was most visible in the volume she co-edited with Diana Coole, New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics (Duke UP, 2010).  More recently, she has undertaken training in molecular and cellular biology so as to be able to think more substantively about the materiality of the subject. Biocultural Creatures: Towards a New Theory of the Human (forthcoming Duke UP, 2016) is the beginning of that project.  The University of Kent CCT seminar begins the work of elaborating and extending that ontologically-oriented rethinking of the human.