Cressida J. Heyes (born 1970) is a British and naturalized Canadian philosopher, currently employed as the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Educated at Oxford University (BA) and McGill University (MA and PhD), Heyes has also taught at Michigan State University.
She studies issues of sexuality, feminism, theories of embodiment and philosophical psychopathology as well as the work of philosophers including Michel Foucault and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Her publications include: