Nadine Ehlers joined the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University in 2008. She teaches courses in Feminist Theory; Bodies and Embodiment; Biomedicine, Ethics and the Body; Feminist Visual Culture; and Racial Theory.

Nadine's research analyzes the intersections of the body, technology, materiality, and ethics in relation to gendered and racial formation. Her overarching areas of interest are critical and feminist theory, Foucault studies, and philosophies of the body, which are directed toward two research foci: 1) technologies of racial production and 2) biomedical technologies that produce ‘difference’ and enhance life.

Nadine's first research area is concerned with analyzing racial construction in U.S. anti-miscegenation law and rhetoric to explore the anatomo-politics of race. These topics are the basis for her book, 'Racial Imperatives: Disciplinarity, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection', forthcoming from Indiana University Press (forthcoming 2012).

Most recently, Nadine has turned attention to considering biopolitics, biomedicine, and biotechnologies. In this research area she has edited a special issue of Social Semiotics (with Shiloh Krupar - CULP Georgetown) on the topic of 'The Body in Breast Cancer' and is working on two new book projects: 1) Abject Life/Forms and the Ethics of ‘Living On’ (with Shiloh Krupar), and 2) The (Bio)Ethics of Vulnerability: Affective Technologies and the Politics of Breast Cancer'.