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Contributors
Linda Martín Alcoff is professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her books and anthologies include Feminist Epistemologies (Routledge, 1993); Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory (Cornell, 1996); Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell, 1998); Thinking from the Underside of History (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000); and Singing in the Fire: Tales of Women in Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). She has written over fifty articles on topics concerning Foucault, sexual violence, the politics of knowledge, Latino/a identity, and gender and race identity. Her most recent book, Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (Oxford 2005), won the Frantz Fanon Award in 2009. She is currently at work on two new books: a book on sexual violence, and an account of future of white identity.
Namita Goswami is an associate professor of philosophy at Indiana State University. Her work combines continental philosophy, postcolonial, critical race, and feminist theory. She has published in a wide range of journals such as SIGNS, Angelaki, Contemporary Aesthetics, and South Asian Review as well as in edited volumes such as Rethinking Facticity (edited by Eric Nelson and François Raffoul) and Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader (edited by Mariana Ortega and Linda Martín Alcoff). She is currently finishing revisions on a book manuscript on philosophy, feminism, and postcolonial theory (SUNY Press, forthcoming).
Tyler Griffith is a doctoral candidate in the history of science and medicine at Yale University with a background in contemporary European [End Page 141] philosophy. His dissertation focuses on pre-Darwinian racial theory, particularly the perceptions and preconceptions of albinos born to black parents in the eighteenth century. As a mix of theory and history, his research attends to the problem of constructing the “racialized body” by looking at historical moments when convenient notions of difference and similarity broke down.
Chike Jeffers is an assistant professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He specializes in Africana philosophy and philosophy of race, with general interests in social and political philosophy and ethics. He is the editor of Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy (SUNY Press, forthcoming).
Kyoo Lee, author of Reading Descartes Otherwise: Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad (Fordham University Press, 2012), teaches philosophy and theory courses at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Dually trained in Continental philosophy (Warwick University) and literary theory (London University), roughly in the tradition of post-phenomenological and post-Romantic, “deconstructive” scholarship (Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man), Kyoo Lee publishes widely in the intersecting fields of the theoretical humanities such as aesthetics, Asian American studies, comparative literature/philosophy, Continental philosophy, critical race theory, cultural studies, deconstruction, feminist philosophy, gender studies, phenomenology, poetics, rhetoric, and translation. Currently, she is working on a few other “alterities” projects such as “Familial Alterities,” which was inspired by the “paper sons” of Chinese America, the shadowy legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act; another book-length project, on “Foreign (or Transnational) Alterities,” looks at intersectional differences between xenophobia(/philia) and racism in the United States, starting with the Asian American context that evades and challenges the black/white racial binary.
Susanne Lettow is currently a FWF research fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna working on concepts of race, gender and reproduction in German Naturphilosophie. Her books include Biophilosophies: Science, Technology and Gender in Contemporary Philosophical Discourse (Frankfurt/ Main: Campus, 2011) (in German) and the edited volume Race, Gender and Reproduction: Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences in Context (Abany: SUNY Press, forthcoming).
José Medina is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at the Carlos III University (Madrid, Spain). He works primarily in philosophy of language, social epistemology, and political philosophy, with a special focus on gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Drawing on speech act theory from multiple philosophical traditions, Medina has [End Page 142] articulated a polyphonic contextualism that provides a performative account of meaning, identity, and discursive agency. His recent work has focused on intersectionality and struggles against multiple forms of oppression. His new book is titled The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and the Social Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2012). He is also the author of Speaking from Elsewhere (SUNY Press, 2006); Language: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum, 2005); and The Unity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2002).
Charles W. Mills is John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University. He works in the general area of oppositional political theory, with a particular focus on race. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and previously taught at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was a UIC Distinguished Professor. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, and five books: The Racial Contract (1997); Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998); From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003); Contract and Domination (with Carole Pateman) (2007); and Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (2010). He is currently working on a book collection of his recent articles. [End Page 143]
