︎ Athena Athanasiou


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).