Nicole Ridgway

Teaching Faculty III, Writing & Critical Thinking

Education

BADA, Wits University, South Africa

Hons. Degree, Wits University, South Africa

M.A., New York University

M.Phil, Columbia University

ADB, University of Western Cape, South Africa

Biography

Nicole Ridgway’s current research focuses on the place of art and thought in the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault. Ridgway’s most recent publications are “The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought and Expérience in Michel Foucault” and “Foucault’s Practices of Freedom: Problematization and Political Imagination in Reyberolle’s Dogs.”

Nicole Ridgway has presented numerous papers at conferences and invited public talks. Ridgway primarily teaches writing and philosophy in the Graduate Program and topics in contemporary art in Writing and Critical Thinking. Ridgway has worked extensively in graduate administration and with student supervision, and on graduate committees. Ridgway has an undergraduate and Honors degree from the University of Witwatersrand, a Master of Art from New York University and a Master of Philosophy from Columbia University. Ridgway is currently ABD at the University of the Western Cape. Ridgway has taught at the University of Witwatersrand, Marymount College, Trinity College Dublin, New York University and at UWM since January of 2009.