ASMA ABBAS is an associate professor of politics and philosophy at Bard College at Simon's Rock, and is a founding member of Hic Rosa, an art, education, and politics collective. She is the author of Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics (2010). She studies the history and poetics of forms of materiality, and is committed to decolonial, anti‐fascist, and transdisciplinary refigurings of subjects who become “problems” for dominant paradigms of thought and practice and who thus retain the possibility of politics in the face of erasure, enclosure, and settlement. (aabbas@simons-rock.edu)
MEGAN M. BURKE is an assistant professor of philosophy and gender and women's studies at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Burke specializes in feminist philosophy, contemporary continental philosophy, and queer theory, and is currently involved in a research project that interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and heteronormative genders. (megan.burke@okstate.edu)
SARA CANTILLON is a professor of economics at the Glasgow School of Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University, and director of the WiSE Research Centre. Previously, she was head of the School of Social Justice and director of the Equality Studies Centre at University College Dublin. Her main areas of research are equality, care, gender, poverty, and intra‐household distribution. Professor Cantillon was appointed Helen J. Sheridan Memorial Scholar at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Fall 2016, and by the Irish Minister for Education to the Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education 2014–2016. (sara.cantillon@gcu.uk.ac)
FEDERICA GREGORATTO is a research fellow and lecturer in the philosophy department of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Before joining this department in 2015, she earned a PhD in philosophy from Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and worked as a post‐doctoral fellow at the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders,” University of Frankfurt a.M. (2013–2015). She has written a book on Habermas's critical theory (Il doppio volto della comunicazione, Milan: Mimesis, 2013), co‐edited a volume on recognition, second nature, and power (Contesti del riconoscimento, Milan: Mimesis, 2014), and published articles in English on critical theory, love, recognition, power, debt‐guilt, and democracy. (federica.gregoratto@unisg.ch)
PATRICIA L. GROSSE is an assistant teaching professor of philosophy in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University. She received her PhD in philosophy from Villanova University. Her dissertation, “Embodied Love and Extended Desire,” provides a new feminist analysis of Augustine's conception of love as a mode of human engagement with the world. Her research interests include philosophy of love, embodiment, feminist theory, ancient and medieval philosophy, environmental ethics, media theory, and philosophy of mind. (patricia.grosse@gmail.com)
LENA GUNNARSSON is a researcher and teacher in gender studies at Lund University and Örebro University, Sweden, working mainly in feminist theory, social theory, feminist love studies, and, recently, research on sexual consent and sexual violence. Much of her work has been dedicated to bridging the gulf between contemporary feminist theory and realist perspectives. She is co‐founder and convener of the international network for Feminist Love Studies. Recent publications include The Contradictions of Love (2014, Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize), “Why We Keep Separating the ‘Inseparable’: Dialecticizing Intersectionality” (European Journal of Women's Studies, 2015), “The Naturalistic Turn in Feminist Theory” (Feminist Theory, 2013), and “A Defence of the Category ‘Women’” (Feminist Theory, 2011). (lena.gunnarsson@oru.se)
CHRISTINE M. KOGGEL is a professor of philosophy and graduate supervisor at Carleton University. She came to Carleton from Bryn Mawr College, where she was the Harvey Wexler Professor of Philosophy and co‐director of the Center for International Studies. Her main research and teaching interests are in the areas of moral theory, practical ethics, feminism, and social and political theory. Current topics that she pursues within these areas include the capabilities approach in development ethics, relational approaches in feminist theory, and connections between these. She is the author, editor, and co‐editor of numerous books, chapters in books, and journal articles. (christinekoggel@cunet.carleton.ca)
KATHLEEN LYNCH is the professor and chair of equality studies at University College Dublin. An academic and an activist, she is guided by the belief that the purpose of scholarship and research is not just to understand the world, but to change it for the good of all humanity. She has published widely on education and on equality. She is co‐author of Equality: From Theory to Action, 2004, and Affective Equality: Love, Care and Injustice, (available in Spanish [2009] and Korean [2016]). Her most recent book, co‐authored with Bernie Grummell and Dympna Devine, is New Managerialism in Education: Commercialization, Carelessness and Gender (2012, 2nd ed. 2015). (kathleen.lynch@ucd.ie)
VIVIAN M. MAY, director of the Humanities Center and professor of women's and gender studies at Syracuse University, has published widely on Black feminist intellectual histories, intersectionality, and feminist theory and literature. In addition to numerous articles, she has published two books: the first, Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist (Routledge, 2007), shows how Cooper deserves a much wider audience for her innovative and often daring contributions to a Black feminist public sphere. Her most recent book, Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries (Routledge, 2015), demonstrates how often intersectionality is resisted, misunderstood, and misapplied and pushes for more meaningful engagement with intersectionality's radical ideas, histories, and justice orientations. She is also president of the National Women's Studies Association (2014–2016). (vmmay@syr.edu)
LAURA ROBERTS received her PhD in philosophy from The University of Queensland, Australia, where she currently holds an honorary research fellowship. She is a founding member of the community‐based Queensland School of Continental Philosophy. Her research interests emerge from the fields of postcolonial/decolonial philosophy and feminist philosophy, particularly the work of Luce Irigaray. She has contributed to Building a New World (Palgrave, 2015) and Identity and Difference: Contemporary Debates on the Self (Palgrave, 2016). Laura is currently finalizing her monograph, which is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press (2017), in which she explores the question of the political in Irigaray's philosophy of sexuate difference. (laura.roberts@uq.edu.au)
LINDSEY STEWART is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Wellesley College. A native of Louisiana, she is a black feminist philosopher and explores visions of liberation informed by region, class, and spiritual practices of the African diaspora. She is currently working on a new essay that uses these themes to critically revisit the familiar concept of double‐consciousness. These themes and interests also inform her creative writing as a poet and storywriter. (llstewart25@gmail.com)
TATJANA TAKŠEVA is an associate professor of English and women and gender studies at Saint Mary's University, Canada. She is working in the field of motherhood studies and has written about the Bosnian rape camps, enforced impregnation, constructions of nationalism and ethnicity in the Balkans, and mothering children born of rape in post‐conflict Bosnia. She is the editor of Mothers under Fire: Mothering in Conflict Zones (Toronto: Demeter Press, 2015) with Arlene Sgoutas. She has spoken about the Bosnian rape camps and the children born of war rape in Bosnia at a number of public and scholarly national and international forums. (tatjana.takseva@smu.ca)
CAROLYN UREÑA is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Rutgers University. She is completing a dissertation titled “Invisible Wounds: Rethinking Recognition in Decolonial Narratives of Illness and Disability,” which brings the racial phenomenology of Frantz Fanon into conversation with discourses of black lived experience and bodily disruption in US and Caribbean literature and film. Her research interests include disability studies and the health humanities, phenomenology, decolonial theory, critical Caribbean studies, and cinema studies. (carolyn.urena@rutgers.edu)
ALLISON WEIR is a research professor in social and political philosophy and gender studies, and director of the Doctoral Program in Social and Political Thought, in the Institute for Social Justice at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney. She is the author of Identities and Freedom (Oxford, 2013) and Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity (Routledge, 1996). Her current book project, Decolonizing Freedom, explores diverse conceptions and practices of freedom, including Indigenous and Islamic feminist and queer conceptions, to develop a relational theory of freedom that can sustain practices of decolonization and struggles for global justice. (allison.weir@acu.edu.au)