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ⓘ About Kelly Oliver
Kelly Oliver Kelly Oliver is a suspense and crime fiction author best known for her series Fiona Fig Mysteries and The Jessica James Mysteries. Her writing is exceptional, and the talented author has a way of building tension to exhilarating levels. When she is not penning captivating mysteries, Oliver works as Vanderbilt University Professor of Philosophy. This explains her choice of characters and knowledge of philosophy work in The Jessica James mystery series. Oliver currently resides in Nashville. She lives with her husband and their three demanding cats. Wolf Wolf comes first in the Jessica James Mysteries. The story introduces Jessica James, a former Montana cowgirl now a student at Northwestern University. Jessica is broke, so she lives in the Philosophy department attic.
All Book Series by Kelly Oliver
Chaos at Carnegie Hall / Mystery in Manhatten
Series opener · book 1 of 6 · published 2022
A Voice from Elsewhere
Single-title series · published 2002 Anthology · Charlotte Mandell,Maurice Blanchot
The Case of the Christie Conspiracy
Series opener · book 1 of 5 · published 2025
The Case of the Christie Honeymoon Murder
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2026
Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing
Series opener · book 1 of 20 · published 1993
Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to the "Feminine"
Book 3 of 20 · published 1994
The Portable Kristeva
Book 4 of 20 · published 1997 Co-authored · Julia Kristeva
Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture
Book 5 of 20 · published 1997
Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers
Book 6 of 20 · published 1998
Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory
Book 8 of 20 · published 2001
Colonization Of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory Of Oppression
Book 11 of 20 · published 2004
Contemporary French Feminism
Book 12 of 20 · published 2004 Co-authored · Lisa Walsh
Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media
Book 13 of 20 · published 2007
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Book 14 of 20 · published 2009 Co-authored · S.K. Keltner
Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films
Book 16 of 20 · published 2012
Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment
Book 17 of 20 · published 2013
Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions
Book 18 of 20 · published 2015
Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape
Book 19 of 20 · published 2016
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention
Latest in the series · book 20 of 20 · published 2017
Mediators
Series opener · book 1 of 72 · published 2014 Anthology · Reinhold Martin
Aesop's Anthropology
Book 2 of 72 · published 2014 Anthology · John Hartigan Jr.
Deep Mapping the Media City
Book 5 of 72 · published 2015 Anthology · Shannon Mattern
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life
Book 7 of 72 · published 2015 Anthology · Grant Farred
Cinema without Reflection
Book 9 of 72 · published 2016 Anthology · Akira Mizuta Lippit
How Noise Matters to Finance
Book 11 of 72 · published 2016 Anthology · Nicholas A. Knouf
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age
Book 12 of 72 · published 2016 Anthology · Mark Jarzombek
The Uberfication of the University
Book 13 of 72 · published 2016 Anthology · Gary Hall
The Politics of Bitcoin
Book 14 of 72 · published 2016 Anthology · David Golumbia
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers
Book 15 of 72 · published 2016 Anthology · Sohail Daulatzai
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics
Book 16 of 72 · published 2016 Anthology · Davide Panagia
The Celebrity Persona Pandemic
Book 17 of 72 · published 2016 Anthology · P. David Marshall
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention
Book 18 of 72 · published 2017
A Third University Is Possible
Book 19 of 72 · published 2017 Anthology · La Paperson
Aspirational Fascism
Book 22 of 72 · published 2017 Anthology · William E. Connolly
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village
Book 25 of 72 · published 2018 Anthology · Ginger Nolan
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Book 26 of 72 · published 2018 Anthology · Kathryn Yusoff
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance
Book 27 of 72 · published 2018 Anthology · Kenneth J. Saltman
Learning versus the Common Core
Book 28 of 72 · published 2019 Anthology · Nicholas Tampio
Theory for the World to Come
Book 30 of 72 · published 2019 Anthology · Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Break Up the Anthropocene
Book 31 of 72 · published 2019 Anthology · Steve Mentz
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism
Book 32 of 72 · published 2019 Anthology · Arne De Boever
Burgers in Blackface
Book 33 of 72 · published 2019 Anthology · Naa Oyo A. Kwate
How to Do Things with Sensors
Book 34 of 72 · published 2019 Anthology · Jennifer Gabrys
Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation
Book 35 of 72 · published 2019 Anthology · Jonathan Beecher Field
Wageless Life
Book 38 of 72 · published 2019 Anthology · Marv Waterstone,Ian G.R. Shaw
Furious Feminisms
Book 40 of 72 · published 2020 Anthology · Michael Gill,Anna Mae Duane,Alexis L. Boylan,Barbara Gurr
Kill the Overseer!
Book 41 of 72 · published 2020 Anthology · Sarah Juliet Lauro
Cruelty as Citizenship
Book 43 of 72 · published 2020 Anthology · Cristina Beltrán
Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic
Book 44 of 72 · published 2020 Anthology · Christopher Schaberg
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender
Book 45 of 72 · published 2020 Multi-author collection
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender
Book 47 of 72 · published 2020 Anthology · Marquis Bey
The Global Shelter Imaginary
Book 49 of 72 · published 2021 Anthology · Andrew Herscher,Daniel Bertrand Monk
Calamity Theory
Book 50 of 72 · published 2021 Anthology · Joshua Schuster,Derek Woods
Young-Girls in Echoland
Book 51 of 72 · published 2021 Anthology · Andrea Jonsson,Heather Warren-Crow
Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now
Book 53 of 72 · published 2022 Anthology · Grant Farred
Does the Earth Care?
Book 56 of 72 · published 2022 Anthology · Jason Young,Mick Smith
Studious Drift
Book 57 of 72 · published 2022 Anthology · Tyson E. Lewis,Peter Hyland
The Owls Are Not What They Seem
Book 58 of 72 · published 2022 Anthology · Arnaud Gerspacher
The School-Prison Trust
Book 60 of 72 · published 2022 Anthology · Sabina E. Vaught
Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene
Book 61 of 72 · published 2022 Anthology · Lydia Pyne
Opening Ceremony
Book 67 of 72 · published 2023 Anthology · Kathryn J. Gindlesparger
On the Appearance of the World
Book 71 of 72 · published 2024 Anthology · Mark Foster Gage
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism
Latest in the series · book 72 of 72 · published 2024 Anthology · Lisa Diedrich
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Kelly Oliver?
Kelly Oliver Kelly Oliver is a suspense and crime fiction author best known for her series Fiona Fig Mysteries and The Jessica James Mysteries. Her writing is exceptional, and the talented author has a way of building tension to exhilarating levels. When she is not penning captivating mysteries, Oliver works as Vanderbilt University Professor of Philosophy.
Which Kelly Oliver series should I start with?
The best place to start is the KellyOliver Non-Fiction series, the earliest of Kelly Oliver's multi-book series: it opens with Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing (1993) and runs to 20 books across 1993–2017, ending with Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention (2017). Kelly Oliver's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Kelly Oliver written?
Kelly Oliver has 118 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1993 and 2026. Every one of them sits in one of 9 named series — the largest being the Forerunners: Ideas First series with 72 books.
In what order should Kelly Oliver's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Kelly Oliver's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are KellyOliver Non-Fiction (1993–2017, 20 books), SUNY, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature (2002, 1 book) and Forerunners: Ideas First (2014–2024, 72 books), plus 6 more.
How are Kelly Oliver's books organised into series?
This guide splits Kelly Oliver's 118 books into 9 named series, with no standalone titles: Forerunners: Ideas First (72 books, 2014–2024); KellyOliver Non-Fiction (20 books, 1993–2017); A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery (6 books, 2022–2024); Jessica James Mysteries (6 books, 2016–2021); The Detection Club (5 books, 2025–2026), plus 4 further series.