Stacy Keltner

Stacy Keltner is Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University, where she teaches courses in Gender and Women’s Studies, American Studies, and Science, Technology, and Society. She has published widely in social and feminist theory and is the author or editor of three academic books. As a public scholar, Stacy has written for broad reach venues like Ms. Magazine, The Conversation, and Common Dreams. Stacy is a former president of WGS South – the oldest, most longstanding feminist academic organization in the country – and serves on Ms. Magazine’s Committee of Scholars. 

Email: skeltner@kennesaw.edu

 

MAST Courses Taught:  

• AMST 7200: American Social Movements 
• AMST 7330: Identities and Social Groups 
• AMST 7520: America in Transnational Context 
   

Select Publications:  

• “The AI Future No One Is Talking About,” Ms. Magazine, Fall Issue, 2025.  
   
• “What the 3.2-million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame,” The Conversation, June 21, 2024.  
   
• “A Violent Denial: Combating Silence Around Sexual Violence and Preventing Future War Crimes,”Ms. Magazine, Summer Issue, 2024.  
   
• “Gender, Science, and Technology,” Misogyny in American Culture, ed. Letizia Guglielmo, ABC-CLIO, 2018.  
   
• “Gender and Sexuality,” with Carlos Gomez, Misogyny in American Culture, ed. Letizia Guglielmo, ABC-CLIO, 2018.  
   
• Kristeva: Thresholds, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. 
   
• “The Ambiguity of Revolt: Kristeva’s Recent Turn to Beauvoir” (Introduction to Julia Kristeva’s “Beauvoir aux risques de la liberté,” trans. Catherine Porter), in Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, vol. 124, no. 1, January 2009: 224-230. 
   
• Ed., with Kelly Oliver, Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva, New York: SUNY Press, 2009.