Eileen Hunt Botting, Ph.D.

ehunt@nd.edu

University of Notre Dame

Address: 2171 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

City: Notre Dame, Indiana - 46614

Country: United States

About Me:

I am a political theorist with expertise in concepts and arguments concerning human rights, feminism, the family, and children's rights, who focuses on the modern tradition of political thought from Hobbes to Mill.  I am currently writing on the ethics and politics of artificial reproductive technology, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence.  My books include Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family (2006), Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights (2016), Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in 'Frankenstein' (2017), plus several edited volumes including a scholarly edition of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for Yale's Rethinking the Western Tradition series (2014) and The Wollstonecraftian Mind, co-edited with Sandrine Berges and Alan Coffee (2019). I have won fellowships and grants from the ACLS, the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support my writing. My current book project is Political Science Fictions after 'Frankenstein': Mary Shelley and the Politics of Making Artificial Life and Intelligence.

Research Interests

Political Theory

Gender and Politics

Human Rights

Genetic Engineering

Artificial Reproductive Technology

Women's Rights

Women's Suffrage

History Of Feminisms

Ethics And AI

Ethics

ChildrenÕs Rights

Science Fiction

Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft