Linda Zerilli

Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She was the director of the Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality at the same university, where she continues as a prominent researcher and professor in the field. Her publications include Signifying Woman (Cornell University Press, 1994), Feminism and the abyss of freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and A Democratic Theory of Judgment (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Her research focuses on feminist thought, language politics, aesthetics, democratic theory, and Continental philosophy, with special emphasis on imagination and judgment in the thought of Hannah Arendt. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and was part of the Stanford Humanities Center. Moreover, she has been a member of the advisory boards of The American Political Science Review or Philosophy and Rhetoric, among others.