Biographies
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Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad is also affiliated with the program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and is the Director of the Graduate Training Program for the Science & Justice Research Center. Barad holds a PhD in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007), and numerous articles drawing from the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and feminist and queer theory.
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins where he teaches political theory. He is a former editor of Political Theory and was a co-founder—with several others—of theory & event, where he also served as Consulting Editor for a few years. His most recent books include Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming (2017) and Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy Under Trumpism (2017). His new book, Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth, is now in production with Duke and will appear in the fall of 2019. His email address is pluma@jhu.edu.
Elizabeth Davis is a PhD candidate in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on aesthetics and politics as they intersect with disability, feminist, and black studies. You can find her work in Emotion, Space and Society, and The Senses and Society.
Thomas L. Dumm is the William H. Hastie '25 Professor of Political Ethics at Amherst College. He is a founding co-editor of Theory&Event, and the author of Loneliness as a Way of Life (Harvard UP, 2008). His sequel to that work, Home in America: On Loss and Retrieval, will be published by Harvard University Press this November.
Joanne Faulkner is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. Her work draws on continental philosophy, critical theory, gender studies, settler colonial studies and psychoanalytic theory, to critically analyse the cultural politics of childhood. Her most recent book is Young and Free: [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). Her current work investigates the use of representations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous childhoods in Australia to articulate repressed violence at the core of the colonial relation. Joanne can be contacted using joanne.faulkner@mq.edu.au, and her website is https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/joanne-faulkner.
Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University and Affiliated Research Professor with the American Bar Foundation. Her most recent books are Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge, 2013) and Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair (Fordham 2017). She has written on contemporary politics for popular outlets such as Boston Review, LARB, The Contemporary Condition, and Politics/Letters. She is now finishing a book about the Bacchae based on her 2017 Flexner Lectures, tentatively titled: "Give me glory!" Feminism and the Politics of Refusal (Harvard University Press). In 2017–18, she served as the Inaugural Carl Cranor Phi Beta Kappa Scholar, and she is an affiliate of the Digital Democracy Group at Simon Fraser University.
Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. Books she has authored include From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self, Apocalypse Now & Then; God & Power; Face of the Deep: a Theology of Becoming; On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process; Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; and Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Possibility. Her most recent book is Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public. She is currently writing Apocalypse After All?
Nidesh Lawtoo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and English at KU Leuven and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project, Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism. His work focuses on the transdisciplinary concept of mimesis as key to reframing (post)modern...
