Patricia J. Williams is a preeminent American legal scholar and a founder of critical race theory, a school of legal thought that emphasizes race as a fundamental determinant of the American legal system. Patricia Williams is currently the James L. Dohr… Continue Reading
Bruno Bosteels joins us at Columbia University this year as professor in the Latin American and Iberian Cultures Department and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, having taught previously at Cornell and Harvard Universities. He is the author of… Continue Reading
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her fields of study span from the 19th- and 20th-century literature; politics of culture; feminism; Marx and Derrida; to globalization. Her most… Continue Reading
Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Marianne Hirsch’s work combines feminist theory with memory studies, particularly the transmission of… Continue Reading
Penelope Deutscher specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary French philosophy, and in gender and sexuality studies. Current projects are focused on the intersections of biopolitics, reproductive futurism, and the genealogy of gendered rights claims. Her forthcoming books include Foucault’s Children: The… Continue Reading
Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of fifteen scholarly books, including most recently Carceral Humanitarianism: The Logic of Refugee Detention (2017); Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to… Continue Reading
François Robert Ewald is the general editor of the entire series of Michel Foucault’s Collège de France lectures and was Foucault’s principal assistant at the Collège de France. Currently, he chairs the Scientific Committee of the Université de l’Assurance and… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, and directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales… Continue Reading
Judith Revel is Professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense where she is also a member of the Sophiapol laboratory (Sociologie, philosophie et socio-anthropologie politiques) and director of the research project “Discipliner l’Archive ?” (2016-2018) in… Continue Reading
Emily Apter is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University. Her books include Against World Literature: On The Politics of Untranslatability (2013), The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature(2006), Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (1999),… Continue Reading