JUDITH BUTLER

Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley where they have taught in Critical Theory and Comparative Literature for several years. They received their Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. They are  the author of several books on gender, secuality, moral and political philosophy, war,  nonviolence, social justice, and the future of  cohabitation. Their books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages and she has received 15 honorary degrees. They have been since 2015 a principal investigator of three  Mellon Foundation grants for the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs Butler has been  active in several human rights organizations, having served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and presently on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. They also serve on the boards of several journals, including Critical Times. They were the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities (2009-13), were elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2018, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. In 2020, they served as President of the Modern Language Association. They were a visiting scholar at the Centre Pompidou in 2023-24.  In 2024, they published Who’s Afraid of Gender? with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.