Professor Judith Butler FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Literature
Summary
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. They received their PhD in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984.
They are the author of several books, including Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France, (1987), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex' (1993), The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (1997), Excitable Speech (1997), Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000), Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004); Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009), Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012), Dispossession: The Performative in the Political co-authored with Athena Athanasiou (2013), Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015), Vulnerability in Resistance (2016), The Force of Non-Violence (2020) and Who's Afraid of Gender? (2024). Their books have been translated into more than 20 languages and they has received 11 honorary degrees.
They presently are a principle investigator of Mellon Foundation Grant that supports the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs which they co-direct. Butler is active in several human rights organisations, having served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. They were the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities (2009-13) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. They were the President of the Modern Language Association, 2020-2021.
Current post
University of California, Berkeley Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory
Publications
Vulnerability in Resistance
editors Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti and Leticia Sabsay - Published in 2016 by Duke University Press
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
Judith Butler - Published in 2018 by Harvard University Press
Dispossession: The Performative in the Political
Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou - Published in 2013 by Polity Press
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism
Judith Butler - Published in 2012 by Columbia University Press
Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Judith Butler - Published in 2000 by Columbia University Press
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection
Judith Butler - Published in 1997 by Stanford University Press
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”
Judith Butler - Published in 1993 by Routledge
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler - Published in 1990 by Routledge
Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France
Judith Butler - Published in 1987 by Columbia University Press
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