Marguerite La Caze
Professor · Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences · The University of Queensland
Quick answer: Marguerite La Caze is Professor at The University of Queensland. Marguerite La Caze shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-17.
⭐ Available for supervision
Research interests
Professor Marguerite La Caze’s research interests include: European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, especially the emotions, and aesthetics, including philosophy and film. Professor La Caze holds a BA (UQ); MA (Melbourne); and PhD (UQ), and is an Australian Research Fellow 2003-2007. She held an ARC Discovery Grant 2015-2018 on ‘Ethical Restoration After Oppressive Violence: A Philosophical Account’ and was a visiting Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland in 2022. Her current research projects include: Ontologies of force: Violence, non-violence, and resistance; European political cinema and democracy; Finitude in Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death and Mia Hansen-Love's One Fine Morning; Beauvoir's concepts of independence, freedom, and happiness in Mia Hansen-Love's Things to Come; Indigenous Australian documentary; Beauvoir on adolescence and motherhood and the Dardennes' Young Mothers. Marguerite has successfully supervised more than 30 PhD and Master’s students on a wide range of topics and is currently supervising students on projects including non-violence and resistance in Australian and Indian texts, on the work of Monique Wittig, critical phenomenology and abortion, Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoeur on forgiveness, and on Val Plumwood's ecofeminism.
European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, especially the emotions, and aesthetics, including philosophy and film. Including ethics and political philosophy, philosophy of the emotions, and philosophy and film. Including feminist political theory and ethics.
Selected publications (since 2023)
[2026] Journal Article: L'Avenir and Simone de Beauvoir on independence, freedom and happiness. Film-Philosophy, 30 (2-3), 209-228. doi: 10.3366/film.2026.0344
[2025] Book Chapter: Luce Irigaray and the fate of Antigone: respect for sexuate identity. Topologies of sexual difference: space in philosophy and visual art after Irigaray. (pp. 175-192) edited by Louise Burchill, Rebecca Hill and James Sares. Albany, NY, United States: State University of New York Press. doi: 10.2307/jj.33722016.15
[2025] Journal Article: The ethics of refusal in Terrence Malick’s A hidden life. Film-Philosophy, 29 (1), 72-93. doi: 10.3366/film.2025.0293
[2024] Book: Film and Everyday Resistance. Evanston, IL United States: Northwestern University Press. doi: 10.2307/jj.18108254
[2024] Book Chapter: Unexpected sh
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Yes. As of 2026-09-17, Marguerite La Caze's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Available for supervision.
What does Marguerite La Caze research?
Professor Marguerite La Caze’s research interests include: European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, especially the emotions, and aesthetics, including philosophy and film. Professor La Caze holds a BA (UQ); MA (Melbourne); and PhD (UQ), and is an Australian Research Fellow 2003-20
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