Jessica Davis

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah. Previously, I held an appointment at the American University in the Emirates where I taught a range of courses in philosophy. I obtained my doctorate from King’s College London in 2022. While at King’s, I received a research grant to study Michel Foucault’s unpublished manuscripts that became newly available in the exclusive archives at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. My dissertation, which passed with the highest distinction, interrogated Foucault’s relationship to Kantian critique and Enlightenment philosophy through the lens of theoretical psychoanalysis, particularly in relation to Lacan's theory of t...