Elisabeth Paquette

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, 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. She is also the Assistant Director of philoSOPHIA: A Society for Transcontinental Feminism, co-director of The Kristeva Circle, Series Editor of the American Philosophical Associations Women in Philosophy Blog, co-editor of the journal Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and the founder and director of A Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop.