Areas of Interest

18th-20th century continental philosophy and critical theory, Postcolonial theory and anglophone postcolonial literatures, Theory of globalization, Philosophy and literature, Legal philosophy, Social and political thought, Feminist theory

Selected Publications

Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac (eds.), Derrida and the Time of the Political (forthcoming 2008, Duke University Press)

Pheng Cheah, Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)

Pheng Cheah, Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003)

Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins (eds.), Cosmopolitics - Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998).

Pheng Cheah, David Fraser and Judith Grbich (eds.), Thinking Through the Body of the Law  (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996 and New York: New York University Press, 1996).

Pheng Cheah and Elizabeth Grosz (eds.), "Irigaray and The Political Future of Sexual Difference," special issue of Diacritics, Vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 1998.

Pheng Cheah and Jonathan Culler (eds.), "Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson," special issue of Diacritics, Vol. 29, no. 4, Winter 1999 (published Fall 2000). Expanded book version (New York and London: Routledge, 2003).