Rosina Braidotti

Biography

Rosi Braidotti is a distinguished university professor at Utrecht University and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht. For over 15 years she was the founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht and served as the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies. From 1994-95 she was a fellow in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
Rosi Braidotti has published extensively in feminist philosophy, epistemology, poststructuralism and psychoanalysis. Her books include Patterns of Dissonance (Polity Press, 1991); Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (Columbia University Press, 1994 and 2011); Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming (Polity Press, 2002); Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics (Polity Press, 2006); Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti (Columbia University Press, 2011); Her latest book is The Posthuman (Polity Press, 2013).