Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social
Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University of Social and Political
Sciences (Athens, Greece). Her research interests include: contemporary
critical theory, gender studies, feminist and queer theory, politics of memory
and mourning, biopolitics, citizenship, vulnerability and resistance, theories
of performativity, ethics and politics of witnessing. Among he publications are the books: Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the
Women in Black (2017); Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with
Judith Butler, 2013); Crisis as a ‘State of Exception’ (2012); Life at the
Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (2007); Rewriting Difference:
Luce Irigaray and 'the Greeks' (co-ed., 2010). She has
been a fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at
Brown University and the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia
University. She has been principal investigator and/or member of research teams
funded by: European Research Council (ERC), Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, International Consortium
of Critical Theory Programs (University of California Berkeley and Mellon Foundation),
European Commission (Action grants, Seventh Framework Programme, Sixth
Framework Programme), Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (academic adviser).
She is a member of the editorial advisory board of several journals (Critical
Times, Feminist Formations, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Journal of
Greek Media and Culture, and others).