Kirstie McClure

Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA, Kirstie McClure's research focuses on historically inflected political theory, principally from the Renaissance to the present. Since the Renaissance, however, pivoted around the rediscovery of antiquity, her interests necessarily extend to the Greek and Roman literatures that so fascinated early modern European political writers. Professor McClure's seminars over the years have focused on modern and contemporary political theory, the history and historiography of political literatures, contemporary literary theory, and feminist theory. 

Kirstie McClure's publications include: Judging Rights: Lockean Politics and the Limits of Consent (1996), "The Odor of Judgment: Exemplarity, Propriety, and Politics in the Company of Hannah Arendt", in  Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics Craig Calhoun and John McGowan, eds., (1997), "Figuring Authority: Statistical Science, Liberal Narrative, and the Vanishing Subject" (1999), and "Between the Castigation of Texts and the Excess of Words: Political Theory in the Margins of Tradition" in  Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political  Aryeh Botwinick and William Connolly, eds., (2001)