Fanny Söderbäck is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University. She received her PhD in Philosophy from The New School for Social Research and has held positions at Siena College and DePaul University. She is the author of Revolutionary Time: On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray (SUNY Press, 2019). She has edited Feminist Readings of Antigone (SUNY Press, 2010) and is a co-editor of the volume Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She is currently working on a book project on Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero, in which she puts her work into conversation with queer and trans theories as well as Latinx, Black, and decolonial feminisms to re-envision selfhood and human relations through the framework of singularity.
Elisabeth Paquette is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She works at the intersection of social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, queer theory, and decolonial theory. Her book, titled Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), engages French political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Haitian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation. Her publications can be found in the following journals: The CLR James Journal; NaKaN; Badiou Studies; Philosophy Today; Radical Philosophy Review; Hypatia; philoSOPHIA; American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy; Philosophy Compass. She is also the founder of the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop, that takes place annually during the summer.
Sid Hansen is Professor of Philosophy at Cal State Northridge. They earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 2010 and specialize in Feminist Theory, Ethics, and Continental Philosophy. In broad terms, Sid's research focuses on bodies and their connection to questions of power, knowledge and identity. They are especially interested in Kristeva's theory of the sacred and Kristeva's writings on the powers and limits of psychoanalysis.