Niki Clements

Niki Kasumi Clements is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Rice University, USA. She is continuing her research on Michel Foucault's Histoire de la sexualité in the Fonds Foucault at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. She is currently writing two books - Foucault's Histories of Sexuality and Foucault the Confessor - and with James Faubion and Daniel Wyche is the editor of Foucault's Confessions (Columbia University Press).

The project

Title: Foucault, l’Histoire de la sexualité, et la culture de soi

Selection of publications

Articles, chapters and contributions to collective volumes (selection)

• “Elephants, Christians, and Pagans in the History of Sexuality,” Arethusa (2024).
• “Veridiction and Juridiction in Confessions of the Flesh,” European Journal of Philosophy (2023).

Scientific works

Sites of the Ascetic Self: John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation, University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. (Monograph)

Direction d’ouvrages ou de dossiers

• Foucault’s Confessions, volume editor with Daniel Louis Wyche; volume accepted for publication with Columbia University Press (forthcoming 2024).
• Iatrogenesis and Health Inequity, Journal Issue Guest Editor with Dr. Zoe Tao, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics (August 2022).

Chapitres d’ouvrages scientifiques

À paraître

“From Truth-Confessing & True-Discourse in Late Foucault,” in Truth in Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis, Bloomsbury Academic (forthcoming).