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Dr Catherine Mills

PhD Australian National University
Room 437 Carslaw

+61 2 9114 0559

Catherine Mills is primarily interested in issues in bioethics, particularly relating to reproductive and genetic technologies, along with aspects of contemporary European philosophy and feminist theory. She has published work on the concept of biopolitics, particularly in the work of Agamben and Foucault, as well as on concepts of responsibility and embodiment in relation to technology.

Current projects

Catherine is currently completing a manuscript on bioethics, biopolitics and responsibility, tentatively entitled Futures of Reproduction, for publication with Springer. This book draws on contemporary continental philosophy and feminist theory (especially the work of Foucault, Derrida, Butler and Cornell) to address issues in bioethical debates around reproductive technologies and genetics.

Selected publications

  • The Philosophy of Agamben, Acumen Publishing/McGill-Queens UP, Forthcoming 2008
  • Diprose, R. Hawkins G, Mills, C. Race, K, and Stephenson, N. ‘Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of Risk Management’, Security Dialogue, Special Issue on Risk, 39:2-3, 2008, pp.267-288
  • Mills, C. ‘Genetic Screening and Selfhood: Toward a bioethics of singularity’, Australian Feminist Studies, Special issue on Science and the Humanities. 23:55, 2008, pp.43-55
  • Mills, C. ‘Normative Violence, Vulnerability and Responsibility’, Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 18:2, 2007. (Published with responses by Judith Butler and Fiona Jenkins.)
  • Mills, C. ‘Biopolitics, Liberal Eugenics and Nihilism', Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life, ed. S. DeCaroli and M. Calarco, Stanford UP, 2007, pp.180-202
  • Full list of publications

Areas of teaching and supervision

  • HPSC 1000: Bioethics
  • BETH 5201: Ethics and Biotechnology: Genes and Stem Cells
  • BETH 5101: Introduction to Ethical Reasoning
  • Bioethics (especially relating to reproduction and genetics); theories of subjectivity and responsibility; biopolitics, technology and risk

Other professional contributions

Catherine is coordinator of the Sydney Bioethics Program