Marguerite Deslauriers is a Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 

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Her areas of research expertise are ancient and early modern philosophy. She writes on Aristotle’s natural philosophy, his moral and political theory, historical conceptions of sexual difference, the history of feminist philosophy, and the reception of ancient sources in Renaissance pro-woman works. 

 

In 2009 she was the Founding Director of McGill’s Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, and in 2017 was a Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. 

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Her most recent books are a monograph on Aristotle’s conception of sexual difference as metaphysical, physiological, and political: Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022), and a short monograph on the feminist work of the Renaissance author Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653): Lucrezia Marinella (Cambridge University Press, 2024). 

 

Her other books are a monograph, Aristotle on Definition (Brill, 2007) and an edited collection (with Pierre Destrée), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013). 

 

For a bibliographical list of her books and articles, with downloadable copies of her work, please click on the Publications tab. 

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For information on her current projects, click on the Work in Progress tab. 

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To visit her McGill webpage, click here.

 

To contact her, please email: marguerite.deslauriers[at]mcgill.ca. 

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