ITHACA, N.Y. -- Judith Butler will be on the Cornell University campus Nov. 9-11 for her first visit as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large. Butler, the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Berkeley, will give two public talks during her visit:

• "Violence, Non-Violence," Thursday, Nov. 10, at 4:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.
• "Primo Levi for the Present," a public seminar, Friday, Nov. 11, at 10 a.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium.

A renowned theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity, Butler's areas of interest include feminist theory, sexuality studies, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, social and political thought and a designated emphasis in women, gender and sexuality.

She is the author of several highly respected works, including the influential "Gender Trouble" (Routledge, 1990). Her most recent writings include "Undoing Gender" (Routledge, 2004), a collection of her essays on gender and sexuality, and her forthcoming book, "Giving an Account of Oneself" (Fordham University Press, 2005). In 2004, "The Judith Butler Reader" was published, edited by Sara Salih (Blackwell Publishers). For more information on Butler, visit http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/judith_butler.html.